Rick Stevens

This might be an effort to...

hold on to his job, and he's probably under scrutiny to see how he handles this.

He announced that the team and the fans have to be realistic, that they're not going to stand pat, that they intend to do a retooling of the team.

He said flat out, this is not a rebuild.

And it's going to be retooling the team around their core players and the prospects.

He said,

And to do that, he said, it's going to mean saying goodbye to players that have brought us and our fans great moments over the years.

So Canadians fans were already salivating over what might be available.

And, you know, a player like Artemi Panarin, who, by the way, has a full no movement clause.

So we'll see what happens there.

But Chris Dury has announced that the Rangers are open for business.

Yeah, I saw, just compare the dates, and yeah, it's a month after it began.

And technically, there were, the Canadians had three goalies on the roster.

But in reality, it was Jacob Fowler and Jakob Dobisch who carried the Montreal Canadiens for the month of December.

They both performed well.

They both performed above expectations, particularly Fowler.

And they were the ones who successfully backstopped the team.

Remember, we talked about the December being particularly the last three weeks of December being the Canadians' toughest part of the schedule for the season.

And it was Fowler...

and Dobish, two rookie goaltenders who were given the responsibility and performed exceptionally well.