Jakub Dobes received a visit for yesterday’s game: he would have been motivated as a starter

What I’m trying to say is that as a European, if there’s a game that could possibly have a kind of “local flavor” to it, it’s a game in St. Louis.

And according to a story published by the person concerned, he had visitors yesterday at the arena. About ten people came to see him on the heels of the habs’ game in St. Louis.

So the question I ask myself is: would he have been motivated by the idea of playing the game yesterday from the first period? He probably would have been, we agree on that.

Would it have made a difference in the game? We’ll never know.

Obviously, right now, we realize that the habs don’t exactly have confidence in Dobes. Is it because of his difficulties in the upper part of the net? Maybe, yes.

But at some point, he has to play.

It’s easy to say with hindsight… but could Dobes have gotten the start yesterday (on the road) knowing he had visitors for a “local flavor” game against a rival that would have brought points in the West in case of defeat?

Because the other element of the answer is that it would have given a rest to Samuel Montembeault. I know a lot of people don’t want to hear it, but Monty, as good as he is, is visibly tired. He has given up five, four, four, and three goals (16 in total) in his last four games.

But right now, it’s useless to look back.

The next step for Martin St-Louis will be to decide how to split the back-to-back games coming up. The game tomorrow will be against the Flyers, a bad team, and the one on Friday will be against the Hurricanes, an excellent team.

Will fatigue come into play? Will the coach want to give the easiest game to Monty to maximize the chances of winning? Will he want to give the easiest game to Dobes to hope to win more often over two days? Will the Quebecer play twice?

The answer in the next few days regarding Monty’s workload, which has been very important this year in town. #VictimOfHisSuccess

Overtime

– Eh ben.

– Hum…

– Wow.