Amy Johnson

So suddenly after kind of a lot of

Grumbling and groaning and inconsistencies and so forth throughout the season.

The Canadians now find themselves in a really different place in goal than they were a few months ago.

Dobish is playing with confidence.

He's looking calm.

He's looking composed, even in the big moments.

We saw that from him this week.

Fowler's got momentum on his side, the momentum of his streak that he had going in Laval.

He's showing the kind of poise that suggests, hey, I belong at this level here in the NHL.

So when you look at the way both of these young goalies are trending, it's really starting to get easier to imagine this being the tandem that gives Montreal the best chance to win.

Not just for the regular season, for the remaining games, but into the playoffs, looking ahead to next year.

So that also brings us to the other side of the conversation.

If Dobish and Fowler are the direction the team is going, that leaves a very big question mark on Sam Montembeau and where he fits into the picture.

Honestly, if he fits at all into the picture.

At this point, Rick, it's really not unreasonable to wonder whether Montembeau maybe has already played his last game in Montreal.

Definitely.

And okay, let's, let's start with the elephant in the room.

And that is Sam Montembeau.

With all due respect to Sam Montembeau, I think the final nail in the coffin came in that Anaheim game a couple of Fridays ago where we talked about just an awful goal on that floater from the blue line by Jacob Truba less than 30 seconds into the game.

If they had ended the Montembeau experiment way sooner.