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Good news for Kent Hughes and the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n
Goaltender Yevgeni Volokhin<\/a> has been named the VHL’s top goaltender for the 2025-26 season.He continues to impress, and while all eyes are understandably focused on Jakub Dobes<\/a> and Jacob Fowler<\/a> as the Canadiens’ goaltenders of the future, Volokhin should not be forgotten either.<\/p>\n In any case, this is another individual honour for the organization’s prospect.<\/p>\n It’s a recognition that highlights an especially successful season.<\/p>\n The numbers are quite incredible.<\/p>\n Volokhin finished the regular season with a 25-10-5 record.<\/p>\n The goaltender posted a .948 save percentage, the best mark in his league.<\/p>\n A .948 save percentage is truly sensational!<\/p>\n His goals-against average is just as impressive.<\/p>\n Volokhin recorded a 1.51 goals-against average, along with 9 shutouts.<\/p>\n A season like that does not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n Dominating his league to that extent earned him, unsurprisingly, the title of the league’s top goaltender.<\/p>\n The announcement adds another promising name to the organization’s goaltending depth chart.<\/p>\n Another goaltender added to an already deep pipeline for Kent Hughes and the Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n It is safe to say that Kent Hughes hit the mark with this fifth-round selection in the 2023 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n Jakub Dobes had a good season in Montreal, but as Hughes and Jeff Gorton have often mentioned, you can never have too many good young goaltenders!<\/p>\n Volokhin now joins an intriguing group.<\/p>\n Such dominance guarantees nothing, but it certainly draws attention.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen what the next step in Volokhin’s development will be.<\/p>\n Previously on Montreal Hockey Fanatics<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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