People across the league know that Jakub Dobes has an issue

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At the moment, the Canadiens are going with Samuel Montembeault. The team tried to have Cayden Primeau as the number two goalie, but it didn’t work out. Now, Jakub Dobes is in town to back up the Québécois since the holiday season.

The results were conclusive at first, but he slowed down. He couldn’t keep the pace.

As a result, Dobes is a goalie who plays little. The Canadiens would probably like to give him more games, but they can’t afford to send him to Laval.

And they can’t afford to put him in front of the net in Montreal either.

In fact, if the team can’t have him play in the top league, it’s mostly because other teams know he has an apparent weakness that prevents him from performing well.

Pierre McGuire, on his podcast, reported that teams know he goes down on his knees too quickly and often gets beaten in the top of the net. And it’s not the first time we’ve heard that.

So when he plays, teams simply aim for the top of the net. And generally, it works.

For now, we can potentially expect to see Dobes play three times before the end of the regular season. We’re talking about the last three blocks of “two games in two nights” for the Canadiens. But even that can change.

All the Canadiens can hope for is that the fact that he has played too little since Christmas won’t hinder his development. After all, you know as well as I do that a young goalie needs to play often.

Maybe he’ll have the chance to play a few games in the playoffs in Laval, though.

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