Credit: Getty Images In 2025-26, Jacob Fowler will play his first professional season. After breaking it down in the NCAA over the last two years, just about everyone expects him to get a big workload with the Laval Rocket.
Whether hell be sharing the net with Jakub Dobes or Kaapo Kahk�nen is anyones guess, but barring a huge surprise, Fowler will be in Laval this year.
After all, the kid needs to play games to develop. He had his ups and downs with the Rocket in the playoffs last year, and hell be taking advantage of another year to fine-tune his game in the AHL.
Yet, on The Shaun Starr Show today, Marco DAmico chatted about Fowlers case& and he mentioned this:
I wouldnt be surprised if Jacob Fowler played some games in Montreal this season. Marco DAmicoIn fact, by games, DAmico is referring to the end of the season, when he wouldnt be surprised to see Fowler get a start or two in front of the Montreal net at the very end of the campaign in the event that those games no longer mean anything to the Habs, either because theyve already qualified for the playoffs or because theyve already been eliminated. It would be a good way to give the kid a taste of the experience& but also to give Samuel Montembeault a break in the event that the Habs have playoff games coming up. Of course, theres also a world in which Fowler is called upon to play in the NHL in the event that the teams goaltenders are decimated by injury. Its definitely not the ideal scenario, but its still a possibility. Hed go after Montembeault, Dobes and Kahk�nen, of course, but its possible that those guys get hurt, after all. Itll be interesting to see if Fowler gets a few starts in the NHL this year& but for the man some see as the Habs #1 goalie a year from now, it would be a good way to get his feet wet, after all. A bit like Ivan Demidov did at the end of the season& even if its not exactly the same reality, we agree.
