{"id":291803,"date":"2025-11-08T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/291803\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:48:19","slug":"martin-st-louis-makes-surprising-decision-in-net-for-tonights-game-against-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/291803\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin St-Louis Makes Surprising Decision in Net for Tonight&#8217;s Game Against Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMartin St-Louis Makes Surprising Decision in Net for Tonight&#8217;s Game Against Utah <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/612600.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jan 28, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Jakub Dobes (75) stands behind goalie Sam Montembeault (35) during warm-up before the game against the Winnipeg Jets at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\" title=\"Jan 28, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Jakub Dobes (75) stands behind goalie Sam Montembeault (35) during warm-up before the game against the Winnipeg Jets at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWe have a last-minute announcement from the Montreal Canadiens. Martin St-Louis is turning away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Jakub-Dobes-64326\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Jakub Dobes profile and hockey stats\">Jakub Dobes<\/a>, and it will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Samuel-Montembeault-35092\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Samuel Montembeault profile and hockey stats\">Samuel Montembeault<\/a> starting in goal for the team tonight.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the Canadiens&#8217; head coach just confirmed in his press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltending change for the Montreal Canadiens: Samuel Montembeault replaces Jakub Dobes<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis has made his decision!<\/p>\n<p>This will be a good test for the Quebec-born goaltender, as he faces the eighth-best team in the National Hockey League &#8211; a team that has already scored an impressive 47 goals this season.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Montembeault, 29 years old, has a record of 3-3-1 this season, with a goals-against average of 3.67 and a save percentage of .855.<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Dobes, 24 years old, has a record of 6-0-1 this season, with a goals-against average of 2.25 and an impressive save percentage of .920.<\/p>\n<p>Over his career, he holds a 2.58 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Martin St-Louis made the right decision?<\/p>\n<p>Montembeault didn&#8217;t have an easy start to the game Tuesday night at the Bell Centre, but he was absolutely stellar for the rest of the game. And tonight, he&#8217;ll have the chance to prove that he&#8217;s truly turned the corner.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a big test for the Quebecer.<\/p>\n<p>Puck drops at 7:00 p.m. live from the Bell Centre, this one&#8217;s worth tuning in for.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Habs Fanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>4 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0189 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis Makes Surprising Decision in Net for Tonight&#8217;s Game Against Utah<\/p>\n<p>And you, which one would you have sent between the pipes tonight?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHABSFANATICS.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Martin St-Louis Makes Surprising Decision in Net for Tonight&#8217;s Game Against Utah &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,909,2418,412,21,40,4,906],"class_list":{"0":"post-291803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jakub-dobes","10":"tag-lineup","11":"tag-martin-st-louis","12":"tag-montreal-canadiens","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-samuel-montembeault"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115516047677075829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291803","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=291803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}