Alexandre Texier roasted teammate Dobes in the most hilarious way and it's pure gold
Alexandre Texier put his Canadiens teammate Jakub Dobes on blast in front of TVA Sports cameras, and the clip is already burning up Montreal hockey Twitter.
That was Texier, talking about his own goaltender. With a laugh. On national television.
The French winger wasn't being mean. He was being honest. And anyone who has watched Dobes operate behind the scenes knows exactly what he's getting at.
Goalies are wired differently. Dobes apparently lives a few zip codes past that. The Frenchman said the quiet part out loud, and the locker room clearly finds it hilarious.
The 26-year-old winger has been one of the Habs' steadier postseason contributors. He's posted 3 goals and 4 assists for 7 points across 14 playoff games.
His +6 rating holds up against any forward in the Montreal bottom six. Reliable, opportunistic, and apparently funny on camera too.
Dobes is the kid who came out of nowhere. The 24-year-old Czech netminder went 20-5-2 in 43 regular-season appearances, posting a .901 save percentage.
The 965K bargain in net keeping Montreal alive
He did it on a $965,000 contract. Bargain-bin pricing for a guy carrying real weight in the crease through a deep playoff run.
Here's the eye test from the clip itself. Texier breaks into a grin mid-sentence, almost can't get the word "bizarre" out without laughing, and the teammates around him crack up too.
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A team in a deep playoff run is a pressure cooker. The fact a teammate is laughing about his goalie's quirks instead of grinding his teeth tells you the Montreal room is loose.
Martin St-Louis has built his group around personality as much as structure. Nick Suzuki has piled up 4 goals and 9 assists for 13 points this postseason.
Cole Caufield owns 4 playoff goals, with 3 coming on the power play. The supporting cast handles the noise. The stars handle the scoreboard.
The buzz around Dobes will only get louder. Folk hero in waiting. Czech, 24, undrafted-style story, weirder than the average bear according to his own French linemate.
If Kent Hughes is paying attention, and he always is, this is exactly the kind of cheap, controllable goaltending you don't trade away for a vibes-based upgrade. Bad idea waiting to happen.
The Habs have built playoff runs before. Rarely with a goalie this affordable and this odd. Affordable and odd doesn't sound like a recipe on paper, but in this room it's working.
The question now isn't whether more of these lines will drop. They will. The question is whether the goalie hears them, shrugs, and goes back to his own planet anyway.
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| G | A | PTS | ||
| Juraj Slafkovsky | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Nick Suzuki | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Cole Caufield | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Phillip Danault | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ivan Demidov | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Seth Jarvis | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Eric Robinson | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Alexandre Texier | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Sebastian Aho | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Alexandre Carrier | - | 1 | 1 | |
| William Carrier | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jake Evans | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Kaiden Guhle | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Alex Newhook | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Andrei Svechnikov | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Frederik Andersen | - | - | - | |
| Josh Anderson | - | - | - | |
| Jackson Blake | - | - | - | |
| Zachary Bolduc | - | - | - | |
| Jalen Chatfield | - | - | - | |
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