When Alexandre Alain was signed to an entry-level contract by the Montreal Canadiens in April, 2018, Joël Bouchard was not yet in the organization. As it turns out, a month later Bouchard was named the head coach of the Laval Rocket. That means Alain has been coached by Bouchard in his last two seasons in the QMJHL and his first two professional campaigns. That has definitely helped Alain’s adjustment to the pro game, and his second year was better on a per-game basis than his first from a productivity standpoint.
Alain finished top-five in both goals and points among Rocket players, and he moves up in both categories if you only consider players who spent all season with the organization (Laurent Dauphin and Riley Barber, for instance, are ahead of him).