On the surface, Alex Galchenyuk had a rebound 2017-18 season. He played himself off the third and fourth line, showed good chemistry with Jonathan Drouin, and recorded decent offensive output (19 goals and 32 assists) on an offensively challenged Montreal Canadiens squad.
However, Galchenyuk’s campaign was largely fueled by the American sniper’s power-play prowess, in a system that, with Shea Weber out of the lineup, reinvented itself to focus on the Milwaukee native’s one-timer. The reality is that Galchenyuk’s five-on-five production, and especially his goal-scoring, has been slipping over the last two seasons.