I can't believe how good they look...

I can't believe what I'm watching from this team right now. Montreal made the team that was at the top of the Atlantic look like nothing, going up 5-0 in this game. And sure, the Bruins scored a couple back, but the depth in Montreal's lineup continues to show out. Jake Evans scoring, Josh Anderson scoring, Kirby Doc Gohlke, Cole Caulfield, even Phil Danault potting his first non-empty netter of the season. But Jacob Fowler's status in net has also continued to be incredible as Montreal extends their league-long point streak up to 12. games. This team is on a heater like we have not seen in a long time, Jesse. We're so excited. And if you guys are just as excited, we're breaking down every single game. We're breaking down news every single day. And we have a big goal of hitting 29,000 subscribers by tonight if we can hit it or tomorrow. If you're watching tomorrow, we want to hit this as soon as possible. We're less than 100 away, only 65 away. It's completely free to click subscribe. And we're hyping up the talking to you about the latest news every single day. Jesse, there's so much. I feel like I can talk about in this game. We'll let the box score run through down below. But I mean, my biggest takeaway, yes, we'll talk about Fowler. We'll talk about a lot of this other stuff. It's just how, I don't want to say how bad they made Boston look, but kind of that. You know, they made Jeremy Swayman look really normal, which he hasn't been this year. He's been very good. They made this Bruins team look tired. They looked like they outclassed them. And Montreal looked tonight like a team that deserves to be right at the top of the Atlantic. And the reason for that is that they're undefeated in the Atlantic right now, going to 6-0-1. The fact that they're, again, undefeated in the toughest division in hockey says so much about these Habs right now. What they're able to do right now is absolutely incredible. And you're right to point that out. Like, this is a very good team in Boston. And the Montreal Canadiens were just simply far superior here tonight. Again, the Corsi wasn't our friend, we have to say, but it was that collective game. Opportunistic, so many blocked shots we saw was such a big part of it. Right now, we just have to say, again, though, from the Montreal, it's not a fluke. Fowler's not a fluke either. Again, night after night, just that consistent effort. We just see what he's doing, delivering excellence every single night. But again, Josh, like, when we're talking about that collective game here tonight, I just want to talk about Kaiden Guhle very early. In fact, we see where he's blocking that shot early in the game, right? He's feeling it. He's going down the tunnel because that's not his first one this year, right? Only to come back minutes later, and are you kidding me? He's going to block another shot here again, under five minutes left in the game. Guess what Kaiden Guhle's doing? He's blocking shots. This isn't the only one. It was really a team effort here tonight of really playing that defense here tonight, which again, what allowed really the Boston Bruins to look rather pedestrian here tonight. Yeah, and Caden Goulmy has done that so, so well. There was a compilation after the Minnesota game of him stopping zone entries alone. And like, we're seeing that happen every game. Something that did help Montreal tonight was the return of Mike Matheson, and that Matheson-Goulmy pairing, I know, of course, he wasn't in our favor, but the expected goals, they were the only Habs D pairing to have an above 50% expected goal share. Now, I know that's, you know, in a one-game sample, and like, what is this, like a 10-minute five-on-five sample? It's not much to glean, but like, it passes the eye test. I thought, you know, Matheson settled in. He made... Like, early in this game, he tried, like, a no-look pass behind him that went right to Boston. I was like, no, no, no, but then he settled in very well, and the decor just looked like, yeah, like, Boston just looked like they couldn't break through a mature decor, and that's been something that I'm not used to. Like, I'm used to this season, let me be clear, but, like, in seasons past, it just hasn't felt like that, and it's why you're right. Like, Montreal's defense, Goulmy especially, with all those block shots, has just been unbelievable. We'll take a look at the game score here. Feel free to pause, take a look. Matheson actually led the entire team in game score tonight. Caden Goulmy up there as well. Evans, Anderson, and Kirby Dach. What a game from all three of those guys. Jacob Fowler in that. I mean, everything looked so, so good today. Very cohesive. You know, there was the injury, though. I want to mention this before we move on to some other stuff. To get kind of the negative parts out of the way, there was an injury to Chris Kreider. I'm sure we'll get an update soon. But the way that knee bent didn't look good. Could be a sprain. Could be nothing. Could be something worse. We're not sure. But with Ivan Dmitrov ready to come back, we're just hoping that Chris Kreider can stay healthy. Because, like, To be honest, like we've said, the depth of this Habs lineup and the offense coming from every single line, even in the game like tonight where the top line was just, they just didn't have it tonight. I don't know if Suzuki's a bit banged up. I think we know that. Slap didn't have his best game. Caulfield scored. But like these other lines are what is really not, you know, making Montreal win, but really helping the effort every night. I just hope that Kreider's okay because like his line and all these other lines have been really doing their part. really needed he was looking very good in this game just before the injury and it was the depth here tonight it was guys like Evans guys like Dano but you know some part of that star power is going to shine through you just get a little bit of Cole Caulfield that we know he is not going to miss on the breakaway but again that wasn't a gift to our boy Cole Caulfield here like he's actually making that happen he's creating that turnover And we saw it a couple of times here tonight. And again, I just want to give a shout out to really the collective game of the Montreal Canadiens, where there was just so much attention to detail, which I think is shining out. Yeah, they were playing good defense, but it's more, again, just the structure again of that. I think Derek Lalonde, like this was a game here tonight. We're like, okay, I'm really seeing it. The two guys up on the forecheck and just finishing checks. And over the game, we were just kind of able to wear them out, right? It seems like just expending a little bit more effort. Really, in obviously their defensive end, we're just able to actually make things so much easier on the back end for the Montreal Canadiens. You mentioned Mike Matheson. He was just looking so good here tonight. Obviously, he's at his best when he plays decisive, and I think that that's something we see the best right now from Arbor Jacque guy. And that's truly, and I know you're seeing it as well, Josh. Let us know, comment down below, who is the best player for the Montreal Canadiens here tonight? I'm loving what I'm seeing from Arbor Jack. It's building up, but here tonight, he's looking quicker. He's faster to make decisions with the puck. Just so, I guess it's the maturity, right? It's the experience that we're seeing coming together of what this player can be. Truly a quality NHL defenseman is what we're seeing right now from Arbor Jacque. I completely agree. And you see that reflected in his ice time. You don't see Arbor Jacque getting nearly 15 minutes very often, let alone in a decor that just got Matheson back. Now, to be fair, part of that was that, like, three-minute shift he had at one point where we were hemmed in our own zone that led directly to that Evans goal. But you look at the time on ice leaders in this game, Jack is sandwiched between Bolduc and Newhook. Like, where have you seen that before? Now, the Habs, like, you can, he was the least used of all the Habs defensemen, but still, like, that's really, really solid. The top... Ice time player tonight for Montreal was Hudson, just over 20 minutes. Same thing with Matheson, Gooley, 19. It was very distributed. And again, how many times do we keep coming back to the depth? But I want to focus specifically on Josh Anderson now, because I thought, you know, Jake Evans, him and Anderson, Jake and Josh, that's what the Habs page tweeted out. They were so, so good tonight. Evans is always so good defensively. But Josh Anderson's having a bit of a renaissance here now. I don't know what's going on. 12 minutes, Jesse. But tie for the team lead with two points, three hits, a blocked shot, had a takeaway in there as well, 18 shifts. Did you know he's on pace for 37 goals? We're now just over 20% of the way through the season, not quite a quarter of the way yet, but he's six goals from tying last season. He's on pace for 37. Now, again, I don't think that's necessarily realistic, but we're seeing a world where Josh Anderson is more than on pace to break his Montreal Canadiens career high in goals. His career highest total is with the Blue Jackets. Ages ago with 27, but as high as the Montreal is, I think 21, like Anderson has been playing some of the best hockey I've ever seen from him with the forecheck as well, not just the finishing, but he's around the net. It feels like he's finishing the plays that he's just gotten unlucky on for the past two years and all the luck's coming back to him. But a lot of skill and a lot of hard work goes with that. Definitely. And a lot of depth, though, I think of potentially, again, just this Montreal Canadiens roster keeps getting better and better. And I think obviously he's got some natural chemistry there with the Noe and some players like that as well. But I think as this team gets better, he's really just benefiting here tonight. But we saw like even there were so many great things from the captain and the Dahl line, right? Like Kirby Dahl was looking so great. He just makes great things happen when Kirby Dahl is moving his feet and when Josh Anderson goes to the net. Good things just basically happen. He's just hanging out in front of the net and making great stuff happen. But again, like that's very predictable. And one thing we do know about Josh Anderson, he can be streaky at certain points like i get excited when i see him score because i'm like okay we we know more can really come because again this guy has all the tools to really make it happen but this year it's just it's it's not stopping we're seeing that consistency from him and again i think it's that recipe every time when we see him scoring it's it's simple right he's in front of the net he's making stuff happen and That's why I'm not just excited now, but I think this means a lot for the playoffs, because again, we know Josh Anderson is built for the playoffs. I think part of this team should be built simply with the playoffs in mind, and just seeing a Josh Anderson right now ahead of schedule to score those type of playoff goals is getting me really excited. Oh, I love that. Like, yeah, it's something that I guess I didn't think of in the moment, but yeah, he is like our most. Playoff style player, at least the guy that kind of we've noticed his value goes here when he's in the playoffs. Every time it happens, we're all like always like, oh, right, this guy's worth his contract, like double his contract in the playoffs. But yeah, he's showing tonight is so good. And, you know, we talk so much about all these players. But before we end the video, we have to talk a little bit about Fowler as well, specifically, because even though this was like mostly a game about the offense. And I think that we kind of showed that right. It still is important to talk about Fowler. Still an incredible game. Those saves he made, that one coming out from behind the net, but it wasn't just that one. He makes spectacular saves look mundane. He is in position. There were so many times, especially in that first period where Boston had chances in close, like touch, tic-tac, boom, a shot from the slot, and Fowler's just there and gobbles it up, and so he makes it look pedestrian. He makes it look normal. But I'm sitting there like, that was not an easy save. He's just always there, and you know what he does? He just wins hockey games. This tweet is still undefeated. He just wins hockey games. Like, I mean, he's probably not going to go Saturday against Colorado, right? It's got to be Dobesh. But at the same time, like, another 1.4 goals saved above expected. Jacob Fowler, like, his saves aren't a lot. He is there every time. He is, is he the most reliable Habs so far this season? Like, game in, game out? I don't know if that's insane to say. But anyway, I just need to show my love for him because, like, even though we're saying the same stuff about him every single game, it doesn't feel like it's enough because he deserves an assist. Like, you know, first star like he did tonight. He deserves an assist on every Habs goal. He deserves one of the three stars every night. He got the first star tonight, and for good reason. This guy is on track. Like, it's him and Wallstejn fighting for the Vezina right now, and I don't see any reason why that would stop anytime soon. Yeah, and again, the fact that he's out-dueling Jeremy Swayman in some of his competition for that is definitely going to help in that sort of bidding right now. But again, before this game is 5-0 for the Habs, it's Jacob Fowler in that first period, like you mentioned, early on in the game, coming out and again, pushing that goals saved above expected way up once again. Just simply, again, and this is early on, like that changes. The whole dynamics, we know that's such a big part of the games and how that can really change the whole outlook. So the fact that just time and time again, he's doing this. But again, can we just talk about the calmness that Jacob Fowler plays with? Type in one word, again, that just summarizes for you Jacob Fowler's... You know, and it's like, you know, I'm going to say fierce, but I'm going to say that obviously it's like, there's this like a, such like a, like a calmness that comes with it. Like his ability again, it's obviously when you're being in such position that you don't need to move so much, but again, it's, it's really like that mental side of the game for him to really, again, change the momentum, gobble a puck, get a whistle, slow down the game completely. Like we just see this time and time again, it's these key players like Jacob Fowler, The grace really is any sport that can... Slow down, speed up a game when they need to. And that's exactly what we're seeing, which again is getting us really excited about the future because there's only star players, select players that have that ability to really shape the tempo of a game like Jacob Fowler does. Yeah, and not to steal the kind of calmness thing. I'm just going to say poise because I think it kind of goes with the calmness, but it's just. When he's in net, it's just, yeah, I don't know. Like, yeah, that Winnipeg game aside, I still don't think, I still think he showed poise in that game. You know, like, yeah, he was upset at the end, but like he's just, he's chatting with the refs. There was a point where him and the ref were just. Standing next to each other, looking at each other, talking, and they were both watching the Jumbotron together. When you see that, and just the calm conversations, like there's something about him that just makes everyone feel at ease, right? It's unbelievable. Leave your thoughts on all that down below. Yeah, leave one word. We got calmness, we got poise, we got fierce, we got a lot of great words. Maybe you can pick your own, but that will do it for this episode. Quick reminder, though, if you made it 13 minutes into this video, Just check if you're subscribed, because statistically, half of you watching this video, we're talking thousands of you watching, are not subscribed, and we're only looking for 65. We'd love to hit 29,000 the day you're watching this video. Thank you so much, though, for tuning in every single day. I'm Josh Goss, my co-host, Jesse Foggy, and we'll catch you all in the next one.