As easy as it may sound or seem, being a backup isn’t an easy role to perform, let alone when you’re 22-years-old and only have eleven NHL games under your belt.
For the first time in his career, goaltender Sam Montembeault will play full-time with the Florida Panthers this season as their second-stringer.
For someone as inexperienced as Montembeault is, he will need a mentor of some kind to guide him, teach him, and show him the ropes. On the active roster currently, there’s only one individual who can do that from a goaltender’s perspective, and that’s none other than Sergei Bobrovsky.