Daily Faceoff Live<\/a>, the New Jersey Devils goalie discussed his 2023-24 season, where he played 21 games with the Habs before being sent to the Devils for conditional 2025 third-round draft pick, with the Canadiens picking up half his salary.<\/p>\nThe hosts of the podcast asked him about the rise of three-goalie system league-wide.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had me and (Samuel) Montembeault, and they kept Cayden Primeau around. We thought Cayden was going to be going down, and they just kept us around. So personally I didn\u2019t really like it, just because you feel on the outs,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t the greatest situation for me, but for me, at the end of the day, it worked out to get to the Devils and here I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that with proper dialogue between players and coaches, having three options between the pipes can be manageable.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as there\u2019s a clear line of communication and understanding and you know where everyone stands, I think that\u2019s the biggest thing. Because as a goalie, you\u2019re sitting there, you got three, and you\u2019re like \u2018Man, am I ever going to play? Is this guy going to play? Is my next game in two weeks? Is it in three weeks?’\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time of Allen\u2019s departure from Montreal, he had a 3.65 goals against average and .892 save percentage. He bounced back in New Jersey, with better numbers across the board in 13 games.<\/p>\n
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Since then, Allen has shared duties with Jacob Markstrom, with Nico Daws getting spot starts in between. Markstrom was dealt to the Florida Panthers in the off-season, leaving Allen and Daws as the new tandem in Newark.<\/p>\n
Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes rectified the three-goalie dilemma by dealing Allen. But the Habs are at risk of repeating history next season with Jakub Dobes, Jacob Fowler and Sam Montembeault all under contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Allen spent his final season with the Montreal Canadiens in a three-goalie triple-tandem with Samuel Montembeault and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-830007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830007","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=830007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}