{"id":574750,"date":"2026-03-30T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574750\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:08:08","slug":"jakub-dobes-named-nhl-first-star-of-the-week-after-backstopping-montreal-canadiens-to-three-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574750\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakub Dobes named NHL first star of the week after backstopping Montreal Canadiens to three wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jakub-dobes\/8482487\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jakub-dobes\/8482487\" target=\"_blank\">Jakub Dobes<\/a> has been named the NHL\u2019s first star of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dobes appeared in three of the Canadiens\u2019 four wins last week, stopping 100 of 104 shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Czech rookie stopped a career-high 41 shots, including the last 33 he faced, in a 5-2 win over Carolina on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He then gave up just one goal in each of his next two starts \u2014 a 2-1 win over Columbus on Thursday and a 3-1 come-from-behind win versus the Hurricanes on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montreal ended the week in third place in the Atlantic Division, four points behind Tampa Bay and Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Boston centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/pavel-zacha\/8478401\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/pavel-zacha\/8478401\" target=\"_blank\">Pavel Zacha<\/a> was named second star after putting up five goals and three assists in four games, and Anaheim defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/john-carlson\/8474590\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/john-carlson\/8474590\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> had seven assists in three games to earn third-star honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes has been named the NHL\u2019s first star of the week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-574750","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\/574750","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=574750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}