{"id":244267,"date":"2026-03-31T01:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244267\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:33:07","slug":"dobes-leads-3-stars-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244267\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobes leads 3 Stars of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Montreal Canadiens goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jakub-dobes-8482487\" title=\"Jakub Dobes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakub Dobes<\/a>, Boston Bruins center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/pavel-zacha-8478401\" title=\"Pavel Zacha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavel Zacha<\/a>\u00a0and Anaheim Ducks defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-carlson-8474590\" title=\"John Carlson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> have been named the NHL\u2019s \u201cThree Stars\u201d presented by GEICO for the week ending March 29.<\/p>\n<p>FIRST STAR \u2013 JAKUB DOBES, G, MONTREAL CANADIENS<\/p>\n<p>Dobes registered a League-best 100 saves on 104 shots against, going 3-0-0 with a 1.33 goals-against average and .962 save percentage to help the Canadiens (42-21-10, 94 points) extend their winning streak to five games (dating to March 21) as they maintained their hold on third place in the Atlantic Division. Dobes made a career-high 41 stops, turning aside each of the last 33 shots he faced, in a 5-2 multi-goal comeback victory against the Carolina Hurricanes March 24. He then yielded one goal in each of his next two starts, making 25 saves in a 2-1 triumph over the Columbus Blue Jackets March 26 followed by 34 stops (including 26 straight to end the game) in a 3-1 come-from-behind win versus the Hurricanes March 29. The 24-year-old Dobes, a fifth-round pick (136th overall) from the 2020 NHL Draft, leads rookie goaltenders with 25 victories \u2013 six more than the next-closest rookie \u2013 through 37 total appearances this season (25-8-4, 2.78 GAA, .900 SV%). His 25 wins are the most by a Montreal rookie in a single campaign since\u00a0Steve Penney in 1984-85 (26-18-8 in 54 GP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes, Boston Bruins center Pavel Zacha\u00a0and Anaheim Ducks defenseman John Carlson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-244267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}