Rick Stephens

And it took him a bit to get back on the ice and get to his training.

We know that Sam Montembeau isn't the best conditioned athlete.

We know he's not terribly athletic in the crease.

When he arrived, when he was plucked off waivers, he was a bit slow in the net.

So one of the first things that...

Um, uh, the goaltending coach did was move him back in the, in the crease.

Um, so he'd have less distance to travel.

Uh, but then that opened him up to, um, you know, shots, um, high shots, shots from distance, that sort of thing that he wasn't out cutting off the angle.

I think that he's slowed down even more because of the lack of training in the summer.

And he's really, really struggled, not only confidence wise, but technically.

Can you get that back in practice time?

Can you get that back?

in a couple of games in the AHL.

Well, we're going to find that out.

And we heard Kent Hughes say, we don't know.

Is Sam Montembeau going to be back to form in a few days, in a few weeks, in a month?

We don't know.

We're going to have to see.

So you've got to hope, you've got to think that they're working through some contingency plans.

And ideally, we've said it before, ideally, you have Jacob Fowler go back to Lavelle.