Martin St. Louis is going back to his No. 2 netminder.<\/p>\n
It’ll mark the second straight start for Dobes, who made 30 saves in a 4-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday.<\/p>\n
On the season, the 24-year-old Czech native is 3-0-0 with a sparkling .939 save percentage and 1.64 goals-against average.<\/p>\n
Montembeault, meanwhile, has gotten off to a slow start.<\/p>\n
The Becancour, Que., native has allowed 13 goals in four starts, going 2-2 with an .857 save percentage and 3.26 GAA.<\/p>\n
Montreal had a 5-2-0 record entering Wednesday’s action as it looks to follow up last season’s breakthrough playoff appearance.<\/p>\n
In other Habs news, Patrik Laine has gone for a second opinion on his lower-body injury and is still listed as day-to-day. <\/p>\n
Laine has one assist in five games this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin St. Louis is going back to his No. 2 netminder. It’ll mark the second straight start for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-233136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}