2011 Canadian content: Montreal Impact

The Montreal Impact's final second division season has come (mercifully) to a close, as the team was eliminated from playoff contention in the final week of the NASL season.

While the team is closing the book on their pre-MLS existence, I can close the book on their Canadian content numbers for the 2011 season.

The Impact's Canadian content number, as a percentage of total minutes played by all players, is 21.4%. This is a significant drop-off from last season's figure, when just over a third of minutes were played by Canadians (35.4%).

Several big contributors to the 2010 figure left the scene in the off-season. Adam Braz, a 2010 regular, retired in the off-season to take a front office job. Srdjan Djekanovic, who played over half the season as an injury replacement for keeper Matt Jordan, is now coaching in BC. We saw less of Antonio Ribeiro, Pierre-Rudolph Mayard, and Reda Agourram than we did the year previous.

The only "new for 2011" Canadian was striker Mircea Ilcu.

MONTREAL IMPACT
Competition	CDN	Total	Percent
NASL Regular Season	5870	27703	21.2%
Canadian Championship	540	2310	23.4%
Totals	6410	30013	21.4%

All the details can be viewed in full here.

While FC Edmonton, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps all have games remaining, Montreal is destined to finish second in this table, barring a huge push from Toronto.