Its unfortunately obvious...

Unfortunately, it's just obvious now. Look, we didn't want it to have to come to this, but at this point, you have to ask a serious question about the Habs goaltending. It has not been the start to the year that Jakub Dobesh won. Then look, Montreal managed to get him some goal support. Josh Anderson has been the Habs' best player over the last stretch of games. Nick Suzuki coming up clutch. Lane Hudson doing lane train things, just like he always does. But when it's not enough to get four goals in regulation, to have some questionable penalty calls, to just not being able to execute on the special teams when you need to, and to still have four goals in the game and to not get the win, it does hurt a little bit. Look, I think there are some overreactions out there to Jakub Dobesz. I still think we obviously have to think back and remember what he did in the playoffs. But I also don't think it's ridiculous for fans to be at least mildly concerned and the numbers actually back it up we're going to dive into everything that happened and let's just start with the game scorecards we'll get into Dobesh in just a bit but i have to shout out Josh Anderson if you liked Josh Anderson's game time and you want him extended leave a like on this video we'd love to hit i don't know i know there's not going to be as many people watching this one after a loss 500 if we can hit 500 likes i'd be thrilled thank you so much Josh Anderson though i mean i kind of want to extend him right now this dude's on pace for some ridiculous numbers I mean I know six points in seven games is like you can't really extrapolate that out over the whole season but after his game tonight here were stats coming in to the game two goals to assist with four points in six games now he's up to four goals and two assists after his two goal performance tonight four goals to assist six points in seven games for Josh Anderson and I love this right I do love this but part of me thinks that this is a problem, and let me know down below if you disagree with me right now, but I feel like I shouldn't be looking at box scores and seeing Noah Dobson leading the team in shots and Josh Anderson leading the team in goals. Again, I don't think it's a bad thing, and the depth is good, but I'm still waiting for the top guys, not named Lane Hudson or Nick Suzuki, to kick it up another notch. Caulfield has been hit or miss so far this season. I think he's still creating good chances, and Montreal in general is creating a lot of good chances Yuri Slavkovsky has had his moments tonight was not one of his better games last game was it is what it is and of course without Ivan Dmitrov without Oliver Kapanen who again I think we sometimes forget has been a top six player for a large chunk of his time in Montreal not to mention being without Mike Matheson and there is a lot going on right there are a lot of injuries this is the second night of a back-to-back you take what you can get but it was also the second night of a back-to-back for Washington so you needed your top guys to show up your top level guys can they get points can they produce can they put you over the top alex Tuch showed up for Washington Hudson and Suzuki did for Montreal but what about the others well Ghuli to be fair to him of course coming back from an injury it is what it is Jack Edermus was a great deep pairing Hudson Dobson absolutely dominant Ghuli Carrier on the other hand got dominated in this game and i'll just bring back this game score card and that just proves it not even close the worst defensive pairing in this game by a mile um but again i i can't really hold that against Ghuli coming back from injury fine but you still need to do a bit of a better job clearing out the front of the net if you ask me but if we take a look at the forward lines this is where i'm starting to have an issue right like now Slavkovsky Suzuki Comfield which has been our best line for years they're getting matched up against other top lines and we're seeing this happened again where Washington is able to sort of not always of course you still generate chances but sort of neutralize these guys at 5-5 and then you got to have the depth show up and to be fair tonight they did Texier Denault Boulouk my goodness that French-speaking line is so freaking good they are so good at controlling the puck in the offensive zone being aggressive making smart defensive plays Alex Texier has looked so skilled this season I don't know if anyone else is feeling that, but when the puck is on his stick, I'm trusting him to make the right play a lot, he's dangling around defenders, Phil Denault is incredibly responsible, Zach Boulouk now up to 5 points in 7 games, how can you not like what they've been doing, Kratunuk Anderson, some great plays between Newhook and Anderson, getting him 2 goals, the Beck Evans Doc line, you know, not as much usage, of course, but, you know, they were fine, I thought that, you know, they did control some high danger chances, Beck had some good chances, Charlie Lindgren was actually really good in net for Washington, and I did before i get to the whole goaltending situation um just wanted to show you this most career assists by a player through 86 nhl road games in nhl history i just thought this list was ridiculous so just wanted to show you that but the obvious story of tonight is simply Jakub Dobesh, is it obvious i think it is, i think it's safe to say Jacob Fowler gets the next game, Jakub Dobesh, i don't have his exact stats after this game but it's around an .850 save percentage, i do have the advanced metrics though they don't paint a nice picture, Jacob Fowler on the other hand is rocking a 1.91 GAA, three games started, four games played um .908 save percentage, two wins, one OT loss, uh he's actually, sorry, three games played, three games started, i thought i saw somewhere else he had four, i would have, it doesn't matter, 59 saves, he's been so good, i have to ask you guys a question, is he your number one yet? i don't want to overreact, right and i think it's hard not to after a game like that after a sustained stretch of play from Jakub Dobesh, the thing is Dobesh has been at his best when he has gotten game after game after game after game gotten to a rhythm then he settles in, and that's when Jakub Dobesh is at his best when he has been historically at his worst I don't have the numbers to back this up but it certainly feels like it when Jakub Dobesh has been at his worst, it's typically been when he's fighting for his position with other goalies and he can't get into a rhythm on the other hand, Jacob Fowler can just step in whenever, play a great game and then earn the spot back, Dobesh has done that in the past but it's kind of more Fowler's thing, so i ask you again, type Y for yes if you think Fowler is now sort of I don't know like de facto the number one or no, if you still think it's Dobesh for now, because i totally understand if you think that and I kind of think that myself still I think the confidence in the team is still going to be in Jakub Dobesh especially after what he did in the playoffs you've given the benefit of the doubt but another nearly negative two goals saved above expected is not going to help your case and coming into this game Jakub Dobes ranked sixth worst in the NHL for total uh goals saved above expected coming into the minus four and after his performance Tonight, he jumps all the way down and jumps over Darcy Kemper for third worst in the NHL behind only Dustin Wolf and Kevin Lankinen with a similar rate stat because he would have four games, same as Wolf, same as Kemper, that Devon Cooley's pretty rough there. I don't know what's going on in Calgary. And then Lankinen is Lankinen. I don't know what's going on there in Vancouver. Well, I do know, but it's rough. The thing is, too, like, you can say, oh, well, some of the goals weren't his fault. Yeah, sure. I mean, that last one, I think, was there was one that was tipped right in front of him. and like there's not much you can do there but in general when you're out high danger chancing the other team 13 to 2 you had 13 to 2 were the high danger chances this is also a Charlie Lindgren stat sort of it's not just a a hab stat and a Lindgren stat too because he was phenomenal in net for Washington and 5v5 Montreal absolutely dominated the play uh in terms of high danger chances the special teams today were bad the first two penalty kills both led to goals i'm still not I actually should double check if that first one by Cairo was technically a power play goal or not because I'm pretty sure I saw on the screen that it was even strength when he scored but either way it doesn't matter it was essentially a power play goal because we didn't have like full strength on the on the ice so really two power play goals given up right away our power play couldn't really get it going without Ivan Dmitrov it's a little bit tough and then Jakub Dobesh like just can't make the saves when they matter I think I think that's what's irking me a bit because a few of these were like you should save those because they're kind of straight on like that last shot from Justin Hall I know there's bodies in front of him and it tipped up high I think off Evan's stick but it sucks that it sneaks past your arm and there's still a gap there I don't know look I've never played goalie I'm not going to pretend to to you know tell him oh you need to do this with your technique because that just makes me look stupid but you know like I don't think it's ridiculous to say that I think Jacob Fowler should get the next start and then I'm a little bit disappointed with the start of the season of Jakub Dobesz and I think you guys would probably agree and if you do let me know if you don't hey also let me know we love all the interaction that will do it for this episode though thank you so much for tuning in every single day even on days like this by the way if you made it nine minutes into a post-game video where we lose on a Wednesday night I think we've earned your subscription we're on the road to 30k we have 78 days left we want to do it by the end of the year so if you want to help us out with that goal it'd be really appreciated I'm your host Josh Goss and I will catch you all for the next one