Rick Stevens

And can we just get to the Olympic break before we have to make a decision?

About Jacob Fowler, Hughes said, back in the summer, the plan was for Fowler to play most of the season in the AHL.

In terms of this tough market, we'll be prudent to try and protect a young goaltender like Fowler, youngest in the league.

I added that.

But at the same time, he has a certain side mentally with his approach where he doesn't seem like a young player.

It's true.

He's very mature.

He bounces back.

You can see that he's strong mentally, which will only help him in the future.

And not only that, we've seen Jakub Dobrish be the backup for a couple games straight.

And that's not always easy sitting on the bench, whereas the others have got to rotate up into the press box.

We saw Sam Montembeau even take a game-day skate off.

And it, you know...

Hughes will say the kinds of things that, you know, who's ever playing best and whatnot.

But it seems that the Canadians are putting their finger on the scale in a quite strong way.

It seems that they've chosen that Jacob Fowler is going to be their NHL goaltender as long as he continues this play and that they'd really like to see Sam Montembeau retire.

Stay with the team.

So it seems like they would.

That's the that's the tandem that they would like to use for the the rest of the season.

And they're engineering the starts and and and the assignments to make sure that happens.