How do you like him now? It seems goaltender Samuel Montembeault has become the favourite whipping boy — with cause — for the millions of Montreal hockey coaches. Quite frankly, we don’t care that his save percentage against Dallas was only .889. Montembeault kept the Canadiens in the game in the third period, when the visitors were outshot 9-5 and he allowed only one goal. He made huge stops on Miro Heiskanen and Mikko Rantanen in the fifth minute. Midway through the period, Montembeault made a sliding stop on the wonderfully named Sam Steel, who sounds like a villain in a Bond movie. And in overtime, Montembeault stopped Wyatt Johnston, who had already scored twice, on a breakaway.
