{"id":276285,"date":"2025-11-11T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276285\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:10:09","slug":"why-montembeaults-morning-in-brossard-has-people-talking-before-the-kings-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276285\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Montembeault&#8217;s morning in Brossard has people talking before the Kings matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/613315.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nov 8, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Sam Montembeault (35) gets ready to start the second period of the game against the Utah Mammoth at the Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images\" title=\"Nov 8, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Sam Montembeault (35) gets ready to start the second period of the game against the Utah Mammoth at the Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAs reported by the excellent Patrick Guillet, an interesting change was noticed and observed today involving <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>.<\/p>\n<p>It was as if there was a new Samuel Montembeault this morning in Brossard&#8230; Yes, Saturday night&#8217;s game against the Utah Mammoth (a solid win) really did him a lot of good.<\/p>\n<p>Drastic change observed in Samuel Montembeault&#8217;s body language today in Brossard<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis also noticed a huge difference, and that will be big moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Montembeault looked more confident in net during this morning&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s win clearly gave the goalie a lift.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Patrick Guillet<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Montembeault, 29 years old, standing 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 218 pounds, has a record of 4 wins, 3 losses, and 1 overtime loss so far this season, with a goals-against average of 3.46 and a save percentage of .864.<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Montembeault holds a record of 84-87-29, with a goals-against average of 3.22 and a save percentage of .898.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what Martin St-Louis decides to do over the next few games, considering that the Canadiens don&#8217;t have any &#8220;back-to-back&#8221; games for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>If St-Louis wants to, he could technically give Samuel the starts on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, and next Thursday quite easily.<\/p>\n<p>The team will have several rest days over the next two weeks, so I&#8217;m really curious to see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of what happened this morning in Brossard, let&#8217;s recall this:<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully he&#8217;s feeling good and ready for tomorrow&#8217;s game against the Kings.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Habs Fanatics<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images As reported by the excellent Patrick Guillet, an interesting change was noticed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[24898,49,48,37777,10397,743,448,37776,82,18565],"class_list":["post-276285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brossard","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jakub-dobes","tag-martin-st-louis","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-samuel-montembeault","tag-sports","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276285","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=276285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}