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When Canada named Samuel
Montembeault as the country’s third goaltender for the Four Nations Face-Off, many took the opportunity to criticize.<\/p>\n
According to them, the goalie was on the team simply because he was French-speaking and the only Quebecer on the roster.<\/p>\n
With the Olympic Games fast approaching, the English-French debate will certainly resurface.<\/p>\n
In fact, it has already started, and it’s because of Toronto journalist Steve Simmons.<\/p>\n
Samuel Montembeault<\/a> will again be on the roster because he speaks French, according to Steve SimmonsAmong those 42 players, we find from the Montreal Canadiens: Nick Suzuki<\/a>, Noah Dobson<\/a>, and of course, Samuel Montembeault.<\/p>\n That was all it took for Simmons-who never holds back-to claim that the Quebec netminder made the list because he speaks French.<\/p>\n “Montembeault is French Canadian, which helps his chances of being the third goalie.”<\/p>\n – Steve Simmons<\/p>\n If he had been invited just to fill the French-speaking quota, surely other goaltenders would have been invited to the camp.<\/p>\n Fortunately, other journalists are stepping in to set Simmons straight!<\/p>\n Jimmy Murphy, in fact, described his colleague’s comments as disrespectful toward the Canadiens goalie’s talent.<\/p>\n It’s unfortunate to see this debate constantly resurface when the goal is to gather the best players in a country-not to please one particular nation.<\/p>\n Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n POLL<\/p>\n 3 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0170 ANSWERS<\/p>\n Journalist Under Fire for Disrespecting Canadiens Goalie Samuel Montembeault<\/p>\n Does Samuel Montembeault deserve a spot among Canada’s three goaltenders for the upcoming Olympic Games?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images When Canada named SamuelMontembeault as the country’s third goaltender for the Four Nations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,5,6717,4,5966,906,1790],"class_list":{"0":"post-152788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jimmy-murphy","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-olympic-games","13":"tag-samuel-montembeault","14":"tag-steve-simmons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}