{"id":443461,"date":"2026-01-28T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:28:09","slug":"canadiens-fire-goaltending-coach-raymond-name-marciano-interim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443461\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens fire goaltending coach Raymond, name Marciano interim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/mtl\/montreal-canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> fired goaltending coach Eric Raymond on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>They made the move 53 games into the NHL season despite sitting in a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Goalies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4697686\/jakub-dobes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakub Dobes<\/a>, Samuel Montembeault and Jacob Fowler have combined for a save percentage of .884 that ranks 28th among the league&#8217;s 32 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Marciano was promoted from the same job with the American Hockey League&#8217;s Laval Rocket to fill the role on an interim basis for the remainder of the season. Raymond had served in the job since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal is the second team to make a goalie coach change this season. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nyi\/new-york-islanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> fired Pierre Greco six games in and gave the job to Sergei Naumovs, who has an extensive history coaching starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3151981\/ilya-sorokin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya Sorokin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since making the move, Sorokin and backup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4063288\/david-rittich\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Rittich<\/a> have combined for the fourth-best save percentage in the NHL at .907 over the past 46 games. They were 25th at .880 before that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL &#8212; The Montreal Canadiens fired goaltending coach Eric Raymond on Wednesday. They made the move 53 games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-443461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443461","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=443461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}