Before the season began, I published some articles on the expected offensive output from the Montreal Canadiens this season: one projecting 224 goals for the team, with estimated totals for each individual player, as well as one with a similar breakdown of the estimated 2501 shots that the players would register over an 82-game schedule. (Those articles also outline the methodology of this project, so I encourage you to read them first.)
We have passed the quarter mark of the regular season, after what was a week of all the hockey clichés in the book:
In a comeback win over the Vancouver Canucks: "A game is three periods long.