We are witnessing something special right now...

We are watching something unbelievably special unfold in Montreal right now. I haven't felt this way about a goalie since, well, you know who. As Montreal wins the Heritage Classic on the back of Jacob Fowler and the D-Corp chipping in Lane Hudson with his third of the season, the first half to 10 points, Caden Guilory scoring in his second straight game. But the overall feel was the coaching in this game felt pretty good. They're 2-0 without Nick Suzuki and Jacob Fowler continues his dominance as straight up one of the best goalies in the entire NHL. and that is not an exaggeration look at the numbers tonight another full game played it felt like he should have had the shutout that Rosine goal hey it was a good shot you know Fowler was in position even the goals that he does give up are in position on a one-timer across the ice 2.93 goals saved above expected Winnipeg generated a ton of chances in this game and it just didn't matter Jacob Fowler first start of the night moves to 5-1-0 on the season and he was just saying go have his go at the end the team put him in a good position to win he said the conditions were great it was fun watching this game it was around zero in Winnipeg so nice and cool out there the ice wasn't too too bad you can see the snow building up it felt like it had all the good aspects of an outdoor game without too many of the drawbacks like the puck getting stuck this and that you could tell the players were getting used to it but it was so fun to watch and there was so much to dive into but before we even get going i want to remind you guys we're pushing to 30,000 subscribers we have a big goal to do this by the end of the year that one free click of subscribe does a world of wonder for us and I will get some more into Fowler as the game goes on but I wanted to show the box score and highlight some of the players that really did well in tonight's game Mike Matheson actually leading the Habs in time on ice and what I find interesting is Caden Guilory actually came in second Caden Guilory has been on a tear lately and I don't think we've I'm not sure if we fix the headshot i think it still might be Nikita Kucherov however uh Ghouli is in that picture just on the side this is getting fixed very soon i promise but another goal back-to-back games the second most used Montreal Canadian tonight was Cade and Ghouli 27 shifts and shifts now you can quote me on that one that if you're doing that that many times in the game you got a problem you might have eaten something uh something bad too much fiber in the diet 23 the three minutes I'm on ice 27 shifts now the two goals on the season uh he's just been unbelievable we take a look at the deep pairings uh you can see Caden Gooley actually was not statistically the best tonight but I thought Caden Gooley himself played very well mainly because the penalty kill was relied upon so much in this game has power play guess what uh I didn't get to see it it sucked the penalties were all called against Montreal to be fair though Winnipeg did play a clean game they weren't out there being too too rough could there have been one or two calls maybe a couple questionable ones on Montreal also maybe but ended up not costing them taking a look at the scorecards here you know i talk a lot about Jacob Fowler who did have the highest game score i believe uh no actually second or third highest behind Dobson and Hudson uh higher than any forward though Caulfield Evans again penalty killing Merchant maybe uh Kirby Dach Slapkowski some good stuff from the forwards that new Hook Anderson Krider line got to figure something out We'll dive into those numbers later. But Caden Gooley, very solid game from him. You know, you can actually see on the ice for goal again. Anyway, it's a bit weird, but I thought he was a very important piece tonight. Not to mention what doesn't get captured in the stats was saving a wraparound goal late when Jacob Fowler couldn't control the rebound. That was Caden Gooley. So shout out to him. But we got to talk about the deep pairing of Hudson and Dobson. It is something that we have seen a whole lot. Lane Hudson and Noah Dobson, when they have played together, the numbers have been absolutely in their favor we've talked about it in the past the money puck numbers and again tonight uh you can see they were our two best players according to game score even higher than Jacob Ballard and you look at the amount of shots controlled 74 of the shots 77 of the unblocked shots that's corsi and fenwick 83.6 of the expected goals when they were on the ice together this is a deep pairing that i think absolutely needs to be used even more we know already did some weird stuff last game putting Noah Dobson with Arbor Jack guy tonight it was Jack guy with Carrier which actually did kind of work but Lane Hudson 21 minutes one goal plus one solid like what else do you need from him he's out there so the first half to 10 points this year and I'm not sure if his uh player stack card will have updated let's see actually we can check this live now still showing nine points but now up to three goals 10 points in 11 games he's tracking for a point per game season and that's just like I I don't I can't believe what we're seeing from Lane Hudson still you know maybe needs to get the hits up but the blocks are very solid he was good and Noah Dobson I mean as we saw actually we'll replay some of this replay some Fowler saves but Noah Dobson with that incredible pass across to Lane Hudson on that goal it was really really really nice there it is boom look at that actually on the broadcast they showed Marty San Luis was saying on the bench in a back post and then Dobson hit him and it worked and Dobson himself having three block shots one hit continuing what's looking to be a career high year in hits for Noah Dobson kind of transforming his game we said the points would start coming and look if he can play with Lane Hudson on Lane Hudson's natural side the left side Dobson's natural side the right side two offensive guys though Dobson does have a bit of that defensive upside recently I think it could really work well but obviously the story of this game was Jacob Fowler but before I talk about him I gotta mention Cole Caulfield because I thought he had such a good game easy to slip this under the radar only 16 minutes time on ice tonight not getting power play time like he usually would because there was none but one hit but two assists picking up an assist on both goals for the Montreal Canadiens tonight very important but now we got to talk about our boy Jacob Fowler I mean what an insane performance how special is this like I gotta show you something again I feel I'm gonna do this every time he wins I'm gonna keep sending this out I said the exact same thing about last game word for word same thing you guys love it Jacob Fowler just wins hockey games is it not true is it not the most true thing you've ever heard not only does he just win hockey games he's making history while he's at it he made history as the youngest goalie in the history of the NHL to start in an outdoor game 22 years old right is it 23 i always forget but he was so unbelievable i mean i could pick a number of tweets and just thoughts all this kind of stuff but i like this one from Michael Levier Beaudoin it really is it's very impressive he's very solid very confident convincing in front of the zone now you can think of any a lot of great words for Jacob Fowler and again at his age it is very impressive to see what he's been doing he controls the game and that big save on Mark Scheifele that I'm going to play one more time this was the turning point I don't care that Rosins scored shortly after that this right here and Scheifele just staring like in disbelief after the game you could see Mark Scheifele go up to Jacob Fowler and say man that was incredible Fowler after the game just cool calm collected I have not seen a goalie this calm in that like I mean i know it gets said all the time but like bro like what are we to do this dude's stats are ridiculous this dude is but like well above a 900 save percentage well below a two goals against average like and and i talked we talked yesterday myself and Jesse about Montembeault probably needing to be traded a short went out this morning on the same subject and is it not more obvious than ever like Jacob Fowler is the future i don't know how much more we need to see from him to prove that a .971 save percentage tonight with 34 saves, 25 of 26 saves even straying but maybe the most impressive thing nine shots against when Winnipeg was on a power play and Jacob Fowler saved them all, not all of them were easy and like I said earlier, even the shot that did get past him it was a one-timer across the ice after a defensive scramble and even then it had to be a pretty good shot to beat Fowler because I thought he was in pretty good position so the question really is what is next for Fowler? Like, well, Fowler and like this save is insane and just the goaltending situation in general because Dobesh, to be honest, I wanted to see Dobesh's mask if you guys saw that I think anyway it was a beautiful, I think it was a Dryden tribute anyway it was unreal, uh the mask that he had, Fowler's was fantastic too, you can take a look at his, uh, because I love goalie masks, really really clean, I love these jerseys too are you guys getting one of these jerseys? I'm kind of waiting to see what that new kind of maroon jersey is looking like, if it's a like Montreal Maroons kind of thing, I want one of those, I have lots of, I need anyway it doesn't matter, I'm getting off topic, what is next for Fowler because as great and as confident as he is at what point are we saying that this is the number one goalie in Montreal, has it happened? and I've been asking this question after every single Fowler game recently and it feels like after every game we're getting more and more people saying you know what yeah yeah he is now he is now so we gotta ask you guys is Jacob Fowler officially the number one in your mind yeah i mean like i think for me it it really comes down to one thing and one very simple thing who got the start in this game when both goalies were fairly well rested it was Fowler that's it he has been the best goalie he gives this team the best chance to win and he went out there and not only proved himself but put on the best performance by a Habs goalie this year probably I mean 35 or 36 saves is like or 34 35 whatever it was like just the amount of shots that he had to face in a tough environment in an outdoor game where the puck is bouncing like crazy you can't always control what's going on I think you know even like shutouts he has a shutout this year but I still think this game was more impressive is that a hot take I don't think it is I think Winnipeg had a lot of good chances so like he was the one that was chosen to start and he won us the game not single-handedly but the offense didn't help do too much zero goals from our forwards mind you only our defenseman scored and like and still we managed to come out of this one so i think he absolutely is leave your thoughts down below that'll do it we're watching something special in Montreal and on your way out if you enjoyed even a second of this video we would really appreciate just one click of that subscribe button to get your daily Habs news rumors reports all kinds of stuff this is a huge year for Montreal we appreciate every single one of you sticking by us I've been your host Josh Goss and I will catch you all in the next one