{"id":265406,"date":"2025-11-06T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265406\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:37:07","slug":"will-sam-montembeaults-return-to-form-keep-canadiens-elevated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265406\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Sam Montembeault\u2019s return to form keep Canadiens elevated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens<\/a> entered the 2025-26 season seeking to capitalize on the momentum from the team\u2019s remarkable playoff run the previous year. <\/p>\n

One of the keys to the team\u2019s success was goaltender Sam Montembeault. However, the 29-year-old has seen his share of struggles this season, despite the team sitting near the top of the Atlantic Division standings. <\/p>\n

Montembeault has allowed four goals or more in four of his past five starts, including allowing six against the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> on Oct. 23. Yet, things might be turning in the Quebec native\u2019s favor. Though he gave up four goals in a shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> on Tuesday, he made 42 saves, and helped Montreal claw back into the game.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton discuss how important Montembeault will be for the Habs\u2019 success this season.<\/p>\n

Tyler Yaremchuk:\u00a0You can spin that as a glass-half-full, glass-half-empty kind of thing. Jakub Dobes has been excellent so far, and you can look and go, \u2018Dobes isn\u2019t going to be that [good] all year,\u2019 but then I can flip it and say, \u2018Well, Montembeault is not going to be this bad all year.\u2019 When Montembeault figures it out, maybe that\u2019s a way for Montreal to keep this heater going.<\/p>\n

Carter Hutton: I think [Montembeault\u2019s] growing into his game. What I do think the natural progression is, after a season like that, there\u2019s a bit of decompression throughout the summer. So, you\u2019re wound tight like a coil. You\u2019re almost in this flow state where games are coming at you consistently. And then all of a sudden, it\u2019s a big break\u2026Expectations in a tough market, and he\u2019s off to a bad start. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think this is concerning in the sense that I think he plays his way out of this. He\u2019s a good goalie. How do they platoon these two moving forward, where maybe Dobes is hot? You give him some more starts to try to get Montembeault going\u2026the Habs have a lot of upside. It\u2019s just a matter of getting both goalies going in the right direction.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment and entire episode here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens entered the 2025-26 season seeking to capitalize on the momentum from the team\u2019s remarkable playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-265406","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\/265406","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=265406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}