The 25-year-old goalie could have become a restricted free agent after this season. He went 29-10-4 with a 2.78 goals-against average and .901 save percentage in 43 games (42 starts) last season, leading rookies in wins and ranking ninth in the NHL.<\/p>\n
Dobes started all 19 games of Montreal’s run to the Eastern Conference Final, a five-game loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, going 9-10 with a 2.66 GAA and .908 save percentage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Selected by the Canadiens in the fifth round (No. 136) of the 2020 NHL Draft, Dobes is 36-14-7 with a 2.77 GAA, .904 save percentage and one shutout in 43 games (42 starts). He signed a two-year, $1.93 million contract ($965,000 AAV) with Montreal on July 6, 2025, and was named the NHL Third Star for October after he started 6-0-0 with a 1.97 GAA and .930 save percentage to become the 10th rookie goalie in NHL history to win each of his first six appearances.<\/p>\n
Dobes’ 28 saves helped the Canadiens eliminate the Tampa Bay Lightning with a 2-1 win in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference First Round. He became the fifth goalie in team history to win a Game 7 (Carey Price, Patrick Roy, Ken Dryden and Jacques Plante) and the fourth rookie in the past 10 years to win one (Jordan Binnington<\/a>, Matt Murray<\/a> and Akira Schmid<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-year-old goalie could have become a restricted free agent after this season. He went 29-10-4 with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-775175","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\/775175","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=775175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}