{"id":855314,"date":"2026-08-12T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855314\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:38:13","slug":"jacob-fowler-makes-an-intriguing-move-just-before-montreal-canadiens-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855314\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Fowler makes an intriguing move just before Montreal Canadiens camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nJacob Fowler makes an intriguing move just before Montreal Canadiens camp    &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Hockey Fanatics has no direct affiliation to the Montreal Canadiens, NHL or NHLPA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/679751.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacob Fowler training with Mike Ayers.\" title=\"Photo of Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacob Fowler training with Mike Ayers.\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens received some good news regarding an important piece of the team&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>That means he also decided to get into town well ahead of schedule, long before training camp begins, and he&#8217;ll be fully ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>You love to see it. Another new face arriving in town!<\/p>\n<p>Could it be captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Nick-Suzuki-43304\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-player-id=\"43304\">Nick Suzuki<\/a>, joining the familiar faces who have already been skating in Brossard for a while?<\/p>\n<p>Back to Fowler, the 21-year-old arrives fresh off a training session with Mike Ayers, the goaltending coach from his former team at Boston College.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Jakub-Dobes-64326\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-player-id=\"64326\">Jakub Dobes<\/a> spent a good part of the summer in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the goaltending session here, filmed on site by Patrick Guillet:<\/p>\n<p>Fowler hasn&#8217;t exactly been taking it easy either. Far from it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Montreal Canadiens top prospect Jacob Fowler is on the ice working on his lateral movement under the watchful eye of Mike Ayers, Boston College&#8217;s goaltending coach.<\/p>\n<p>Ayers coached Fowler, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Joseph-Woll-41527\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-player-id=\"41527\">Joseph Woll<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Spencer-Knight-54957\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-player-id=\"54957\">Spencer Knight<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Thatcher-Demko-37817\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-player-id=\"37817\">Thatcher Demko<\/a> at the college level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jesse Granger<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens&#8217; goaltending battle could reshape the depth chart at training camp<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty to be excited about!<\/p>\n<p>Dobes, for his part, isn&#8217;t changing anything about his approach.<\/p>\n<p>He says his preparation remains the same, with one goal in mind: come back stronger.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is getting interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Three serious goaltenders all driven by the same objective: helping the Montreal Canadiens go as far as possible this season.<\/p>\n<p>A strong camp could shake up the entire pecking order.<\/p>\n<p>Training camp isn&#8217;t far away!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Montreal Hockey Fanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>11 HOURS AGO|182 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Fowler makes an intriguing move just before Montreal Canadiens camp<\/p>\n<p>Will Jacob Fowler start the 2026-27 season with the Canadiens instead of Laval?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Jacob Fowler makes an intriguing move just before Montreal Canadiens camp &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[118760,49,48,297438,33244,37777,297437,743,448,82],"class_list":["post-855314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-boston-college","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-goalie-training","tag-jacob-fowler","tag-jakub-dobes","tag-mike-ayers","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855314","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=855314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}