2023-11-16 23:42:29
As long as the Canadian has three goalkeepers in its 23-player roster, the situation will be talked regarding.
Although she is hardly popular, Kent Hughes currently finds herself in a difficult position. He doesn’t want to lose Cayden Primeau on waivers, and the team’s depth in net is rather limited, at least for this year.
Renaud Lavoie mentioned it in his morning column on BPM Sports: the goalkeepers in Laval are tough, very hard. Jakub Dobes does not deserve a recall and Strauss Mann cannot be recalled due to his contract.
So, if Primeau went through the waiver, was claimed (Flyers and Devils would be interested) and Jake Allen was injured, which goalkeeper would come to Montreal? This is not a nonchalant Dobes, who has terrible stats in the AHL, who will take over. Moreover, in the Rocket’s victory yesterday, the goalie was removed from the game following allowing four goals on 14 shots.
Mann did well, but once once more, he signed a contract limiting him to the American League… He might always sign a new pact with the CH and be offered to European teams before being recalled, but that doesn’t will not happen. What regarding the other guards of the organization? Yevgeni Volokhin is in Russia, Jacob Fowler and Emmett Croteau are in college, Quentin Miller is in junior and Joe Vrbetic, who also doesn’t have an NHL contract, is in the ECHL. Might as well forget them.
Unlike the goalkeepers at the bottom, the goalkeepers at the top play well. All three have efficiency percentages above .900. In the case of the two youngest, they have goals allowed averages below three. They are not to blame.
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The rotation will have to be sorted out one day.
Does this involve the possible contract with Samuel Montembeault? Lavoie thinks so.
Signing Samuel Montembeault: a first step to resolve the goalkeeper situation →
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Primeau will also have the chance to show off this evening. The young American will face the second best team in the NHL, the Vegas Golden Knights. With a good performance, I’m sure Kent Hughes would be satisfied.
The CEO is probably very active on the phone right now. He is certainly the first to want to put an end to this rotation of three goalkeepers, which, I repeat, does not please anyone.
What the Canadiens need is a goaltender capable of shuttling between the NHL and the AHL without going on waivers. A Louis Domingue, for example… At the start of the year, the Quebecer was placed on waivers and was not claimed.
I don’t wish injury on anyone, but if something goes wrong with Allen, who gets injured frequently, Domingue might be a great insurance policy. However, don’t expect to see Primeau traded for him. The two general managers don’t want that.
On the one hand, Hughes certainly sees a future for Primeau in Montreal and in New York, Chris Drury doesn’t want a three-goalie rotation. Either way, there is no shortage of goalkeepers in the Big Apple. In the NHL and AHL, there are six goaltenders, three of whom have a contract for the 2024-2025 season.
In any case, Lavoie believes it will be essential for Montreal to acquire a goalie via the autonomy market or the transaction market. And it comes back to his point at the beginning of the text: Dobes does not deserve to play up top and no other goalkeeper can take over.
In closing, I want to remind you that goalkeepers develop much later than other positions. Look at Charlie Lindgren, in particular, on the Washington side…
And we are starting to see good progress in the game of Cayden Primeau (24 years old).
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