{"id":338451,"date":"2025-12-10T02:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338451\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:13:07","slug":"canadiens-pull-goalie-jakub-dobes-after-another-rough-start-vs-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338451\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens pull goalie Jakub Dobes after another rough start vs. Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jakub-dobes\/7c88275f-7828-41d9-be74-26c98cbec455\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"7c88275f-7828-41d9-be74-26c98cbec455\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jakub Dobes<\/a> was replaced by Samuel Montembeault after the Canadiens fell behind 3-0 following the first period against the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday. Dobes allowed three goals on 15 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning were playing the second half of a road back-to-back after losing 2-0 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, while the Habs were idle Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dobes was coming off a game in which he gave up four goals on 18 shots in a 4-3 loss against the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p>The Czechia native has overtaken Montembeault as the No. 1 starter due to the latter&#8217;s season-long struggles after cracking Canada&#8217;s 4 Nations Face-Off team last year.<\/p>\n<p>But Dobes has fallen back to earth recently, with his goals-against average rising to .303 and his save percentage dropping to .890.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jakub Dobes was replaced by Samuel Montembeault after the Canadiens fell behind 3-0 following the first period against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-338451","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\/338451","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=338451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}