In his first game for Montreal, he kept a clean sheet and largely deserved the victory Canadiens on the ice of Florida Panthers 4:0. Slovakian Juraj Slafkovský passed for the guests’ fourth goal.
Montreal selected Dobeš in the 5th round of the 2020 draft, but he only got a chance in the first team now and he took full advantage of it. The twenty-three-year-old goalkeeper caught a total of 33 home shots in the match, another 21 were blocked by his teammates, and he was declared the first star of the duel.
Slafkovský scored his 20th point (4+16) in 32 games of the seasonwhen in the 55th minute he pulled the puck on the left side and found a running Cole Caufield in front of the goal, who definitively broke the home team’s resistance. Kirby Dach scored two goals and Jake Evans scored one. Slafkovský played a total of 14:34 minutes and scored one shot on goal and one plus point.