There are a ton of questions facing the Montreal Canadiens right now, and across the board there haven’t been very many answers for any of them. One of the potential solutions most certainly is not Cédric Paquette.
Paquette was brought in to bring a physical edge and veteran intangibles on the Canadiens’ fourth line. He’s brought the physicality, and so far none of it has been good. Against the Anaheim Ducks, Paquette took a massive run at Trevor Zegras that resulted in a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct. The Ducks then scored on that power play, and eventually went on to win 4-2 as the Canadiens played with a short bench for the rest of the game.