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Samuel Montembeault : only five goalies have more wins than him this season
Charles-Alexis Brisebois
Samuel Montembeault : only five goalies have more wins than him this season
Credit: Getty Images
The Canadiens’ season is not over yet: there are still four games left.

Obviously, we should expect to see Samuel Montembeault play a game in Ontario and at least one other next week. The habs’ schedule from now on will also help determine his number of games until the end of the regular season, but I expect to see game #82 given to Jakub Dobes.

This would be logical, at least.

All this to say that he has one, two or three starts left before the playoffs. Montembeault will surely exceed 60 games played, having 59 so far this season.

Only Andrei Vasilevskiy (61) and Connor Hellebuyck (60) have more than him right now. Ilya Sorokin is also at 59.

We must also note that the Quebecer, who was the #3 goalkeeper for Canada at the Four Nations Confrontation, recently collected his 30th win of the season, a personal record.

And looking elsewhere in the NHL, we see that only five goalkeepers have more than 30 wins before the games of April 10.

(Credit: NHL.com)
Only Connor Hellebuyck, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Jake Oettinger, Sergei Bobrovsky and Logan Thompson (of the Capitals, justly… but in only 43 games) have more than him.

Adin Hill and Filip Gustavsson, at the time of writing, are also at 30 wins.

Yes, Monty had ups and downs this season. But he got up in the important moments (he won his last five games) and without him, the Canadiens are not in the mix or on their way to the playoffs.

This is noteworthy, all of this. And we will just have to hope that the playoffs will energize him even more, he who has had a heavy workload this season.

(Credit: ESPN)

Overtime

– A nice photo.

– Wow.

– Game in Ottawa tomorrow: there will be habs fans in large numbers. [BPM Sports]

– Aaron Ekblad can start practicing with the guys again. His suspension has not been lifted yet.

– To note.

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