{"id":952179,"date":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952179\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","slug":"hidden-game-it-doesnt-matter-whos-in-net-canadiens-continue-winning-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952179\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Game: It doesn&#8217;t matter who&#8217;s in net, Canadiens continue winning on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This edition of the Hidden Game is dedicated to Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis \u2014 and, for that matter, goaltender Jakub Dobes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We thought St. Louis had lost his mind when he <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/montreal-canadiens-habs-jakub-dobes-martin-st-louis-dallas-stars-nhl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/montreal-canadiens-habs-jakub-dobes-martin-st-louis-dallas-stars-nhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">decided to start Dobes against the Dallas Stars<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forget for a moment what <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-hockey-nhl-canadiens\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-hockey-nhl-canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jacob Fowler accomplished this week<\/a>. The inconsistent <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-canadiens-hockey-nhl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/montreal-canadiens\/hidden-game-canadiens-hockey-nhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dobes hadn\u2019t won a game since the season opener on Sept. 29 at Toronto<\/a>. Dobes has not played since Oct. 20 and was coming off four consecutive losses, during which he had allowed 20 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This edition of the Hidden Game is dedicated to Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis \u2014 and, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-952179","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\/952179","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=952179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}