{"id":263598,"date":"2025-11-05T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263598\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:36:17","slug":"sam-montembeault-breaks-his-silence-after-being-mocked-by-the-bell-centre-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263598\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Montembeault Breaks His Silence After Being Mocked by the Bell Centre Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nSam Montembeault Breaks His Silence After Being Mocked by the Bell Centre Crowd <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/611600.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oct 4, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Samuel Montembeault (35) Look on against the Ottawa Senators during the second period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\" title=\"Oct 4, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Samuel Montembeault (35) Look on against the Ottawa Senators during the second period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe Montreal Canadiens&#8217; goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Samuel-Montembeault-35092\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Samuel Montembeault profile and hockey stats\">Samuel Montembeault<\/a> experienced quite a night yesterday at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n<p>After a tough start to the game-allowing three goals on five shots and being outright mocked by the Bell Centre crowd&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And make it 3-0 Flyers over Habs with a second power-play goal. Three goals on five shots on goalie Samuel Montembeault. Still 12:10 left in first period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stu Cowan<\/p>\n<p>Montembeault ultimately showed impressive mental strength and bounced back!<\/p>\n<p>The sarcastic applause turned into real, heartfelt cheers for Montembeault.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Montembeault comments on what happened<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Montembeault heard the mocking applause coming from the upper sections of the Bell Centre when he made a save on a shot from the red line in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand. I need to be able to do my job,&#8221; said the Canadiens&#8217; goaltender after the 5-4 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; TVA Sports<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that it did affect him, unfortunately&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the third goal, my head was spinning,&#8221; admitted the goalie. &#8220;[&#8230;] But I had nothing left to lose, down 3-0.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Samuel Montembeault, via TVA Sports article<\/p>\n<p>In the end, he came back strong and helped the Montreal Canadiens earn a big point.<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis&#8217; decision to leave Samuel in net ultimately paid off against the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Habs Fanatics<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHABSFANATICS.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Sam Montembeault Breaks His Silence After Being Mocked by the Bell Centre Crowd &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[3719,49,48,63893,10397,743,448,752,37776,82],"class_list":["post-263598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-bell-centre","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-goalie","tag-martin-st-louis","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-samuel-montembeault","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}