BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Thursday that the team has agreed to terms on a three-year contract extension (2027-28 to 2029-30) with goaltender Jakub Dobes. The deal will pay him an average annual salary of $5,357,575.<\/p>\n
Dobes played 43 games with the Canadiens this season, posting a 29-10-4 record, along with a 2.78 goals-against average and a .901 save percentage. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound netminder led all rookie goaltenders in wins, ranking ninth among all goalies in the category.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dobes, 25, then distinguished himself in the playoffs, playing in each of the team\u2019s 19 games through the Eastern Conference Final and posting a 2.66 GAA and a .908 save percentage. With nine playoff wins, Dobes is tied for third in team history among rookie netminders.<\/p>\n
Dobes was selected in the fifth round (136th overall) by the Canadiens at the 2020 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Thursday that the team has agreed to terms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-776249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776249","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=776249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}