Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Can The Montreal Canadiens SAVE Their Season In Game 4?? w/TSN's Noodles | BB Clips

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

Boomer, Pinder and Rhett are joined by TSN’s Jamie McLennan as the guys break down a massive Game 4 for the Montreal Canadiens. After being heavily outplayed in Games 2 and 3, the Habs now find themselves in what feels like a complete must-win situation if they want to keep this series alive. The biggest reason Montreal is even still hanging around? Jacob Dobes has been unreal in net and continues to give the Canadiens a chance every single night. The problem is the offense has completely dried up and the guys discuss what Montreal needs to change if they want any shot at bouncing back against Carolina. Can the Habs finally generate some offense or is this series starting to slip away fast? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.Video Link: https://youtu.be/gBp6QrgSTDg#nhl #nhlshorts #nhlplayoffs #nhlpredictions #nhlhockey #nhlpicks #stanleycup #stanleycupfinal #montrealcanadiens CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️BARN BURNER MERCHhttps://nationgear.ca/collections/shirts/FlamesnationBARN BURNER SHORTS https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_bcGtvvo-cW2DHEDZ6dEO5ePDmlhZc9&si=jo8iNGxT4ImhS2Y8📲 Follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fnbarnburner/X (Twitter): https://x.com/barnburnerfn?lang=en🎧 Listen on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/barn-burner-boomer-pinder-with-rhett-warrener/id1648562889Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mc6Qd5U22R2zbMlQ7RxIiProducer: Jack Haverstock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jack has decided that Montreal sucks and we don't like them. Oh. They're boring. They're overmatch. They're over. They don't shoot. What are we doing here? They can't read their zones.

They don't take advantage of that rambunctious crowd they've got going. The chapel or the church or this, whatever. Is it, are we not giving Colorado or Carolina enough credit? No, the people in Carol. Carolina has, they've, played almost two perfect games, but the scary part is both of them have gone into overtime. Totally. So, you know, I think this series is a lot different if Dobish isn't as good as he has been

because statistically, 28 to 10 in high danger chances last game. And that ended up an overtime game. So Montreal's not getting to Freddie. They're not threatening. 13 shots. 13 shots, 10 high danger chances. is two shots in the last 25 minutes of the game. Like it's Carolina in a nutshell,

this smothering, aggressive, you know, play that Montreal has not been able to break through. And they're in the games because they're blocking a lot of shots. Montreal's blocked a lot of shots, and their goaltender has been fantastic. But it's not a recipe to win four games against Carolina. Carolina was out to lunch game one. to the point where Rod Brindamore's like,

I've never seen this before in my life. I've never seen Slavin play like that in eight years. Yeah. I loved this media. I actually was laughing out loud on the panel when he was talking because he was dead serious going, that's not the team I coach. I don't know who the hell these people were.

But it was, it was unbelievable because it was raw emotion. And sure enough, the next game, it's like, oh, this is how we play. Oh, we remember how to play. And then the next game. Oh, yeah, we're doing it again.

So if you think Carolina is going to show up tonight and play like they did in game one, Montreal has to have an answer. They need speed through the neutral zone. They got to get shots through. I would love to see them take the pace to Carolina. Easier said than done, though. Carolina's a, they're a really good team. Yeah, they really go at you.

We were talking before you got on about how good hard has been and how good Dobish has been. It's kind of, you know, for hard, it almost feels like horses for courses. is he's the right goalie in that system that's being played for Vegas right now. You don't need to be an acrobat. Just make the saves, control some rebounds. Don't let in some shit that you shouldn't be. Whereas Dobish is having to stand on his head. He's making 10 bell saves shift after shift after shift.

And it just, not of what has gotten Montreal here, what we've seen in the games two and three, feel sustainable at all for Montreal. And the scary part is, now, Sveshnikov got credit for the overtime goal. they originally they gave it to ahio that line hasn't woken up yet maybe that wakes like svechnakov ahjo even the little guy there uh stankhoven stankhoven like they haven't been as as dominant as they were in previous now maybe that's just the system and how they roll but if they get going and feeling about good about their game that scares me for montreal that's that was

my point yeah i think that should be scary for everyone watching carolina but But I think that's how they're built, too. Yeah. Okay. That lines not. We got this. Right. They just play the same way all the time.

And they make you earn it. That's what it is. Do you think what this, regardless of what happens with Montreal, but next year moving forward, is Montreal found their goalie of the future? Is this, because you talked about Fowler and Dobish and Montembow has been hot and cold, but it's Dobish's party right now. Has he arrived? Is this their guy now?

Well, he's their guy for right now. and here's the thing that I would say, you're going to 84 games next year. So I was asked yesterday, well, who are you going to get rid of? Well, it's easy. You've got to get rid of Montembourg. Well, maybe not.

I think teams have to have three goaltenders, three capable goaltenders. Fowler is 21. Montobos 29 and Doebus just turned 24. So they've got it covered in all three layers there. You can start the season next year and say 84 games. If you believe Dobish is just turned 24 games, If you believe Dobish is your guy, how about 50?

How about Fowler? You play 20. Montembow can play 15, 20. And, oh, Fowler, you don't need waivers. You can play 25 or 30 in the minors because we want you to play 50 games for your development as a goaltender. Montreal is in unbelievable shape in every position when you look throughout their organization. Because they can maybe move away from Carrier if Ryan Bond. can step in.

If Ryan Bacher's not ready, send him back down, play in Lavelle, be up and down. You look at some of these players that they have in Lavelle, not a lot of them need waivers. So they can start in Lavell and be up and down and, hey, you know, Gallagher's contract, we might have to make him go away while somebody else comes in there. So coming back to the goaltender, you know, carousel, we'll call it, I don't think they need to move Montembourg. I think what they need to do is, I think teams have to figure out a way to carry three. And if you can put one in the minors and go, hey, Fowler, you're playing Wednesday in LaValle,

you're starting Saturday night in in Toronto on a back to back. So be it because they're dealing from a position of strength. And Dobish will be their guy moving forward and until Fowler is ready to be an everyday guy, which he might be right now, but they've got the luxury of time. That's unbelievable. That price thing where you got to move it out and, you know, it's, You've got the time to sort that out. We were talking about it yesterday, and obviously it's game day today. But we love Brindamore. Who doesn't love Brindamore?

You guys had him on your show last week or whatever it was. But he's so animated on the bench. He's just, there's not about his face. It just, it breeds comedy. Can you imagine his head would have popped right off of his torso after the no too many men on the ice call? And if Montreal won that thing? the other night, he would have gone friggin crazy.

It was, I mean, the refs at that point had put the whistles away. It was going to be either puck over the glass where they'd like, oh, we have to make the call. They would probably apologize to the bench and go, sorry, we have to make this call because there's no way of getting out of it. But the refs just let him play. There was a trip on Hudson that they got away with. I, you know, I know maybe thought it was a soft, like a soft non-call, but I, I thought there was calls on both sides that were blatant, that they could have called it and nobody would have said, hey, that's, they blew this one dead.

Didn't they? I never seen this one. They knew that. They knew they were. And we're like, we're not sure what we're going to do here, but we're not going to, we're going to try and make sure it's the, hey, you've got a premature substitution center ice. We had to talk about this.

like we can't have this. So I don't know. I think those refs, I'm pro ref because I travel with a lot of those guys. You and Rhett. You and Rhett. Part of you. Great guys.

And think about it. You're always, 50% is always mad at you. Like you, you can make a call and somebody's always screaming at you from the other side. But they, you know, I like veteran reps. I like Wes McCauley.

I think he's a, he's an animated guy. He'll give it back to a player, which I, I miss in today's game. I remember calling, I remember being involved in a game with the New York Islanders.

And I got to figure out because Ray Froro scored in overtime so we can go back. It was against the Washington capitals. They didn't call, Paul Stewart was ref. And you remember Stewie? Yes.

Like he would be yelling at the players. Garius Casperitis would get like hit from behind head first into the boards. You'd be like, get up you're Russian. Get up Russian. And you're like, oh my God. It was hilarious. But he didn't call nothing.

The whole game, zero penalties. He called a penalty on Washington in Washington in overtime. And I think Ray Ferraro scored. I think we won like four three. And I remember Washington fans going crazy because that was the only penalty called the whole game. He was letting murder go away, the whole game. And then we won in overtime.

So, you know, it happens. but those are the old character refs that didn't have thin skin. You could give it back to them and nowadays everybody's kind of more of like a robot out there, the young guys. Can Montreal? Tonight's the swing game.

Montreal gets, if Montreal can get to Freddie and make him look human, if they can get speed through the neutral zone and actually draw some penalties, take control of the game, and how about get a lead? Yeah, that's what I was going to say. They don't have to be great.

They just have to have a lead and let Dobish be a superstar. Like they've done really well winning games. They had no business winning this playoffs. Yeah. But play with the lead. Maybe it forces Carolina to do something that they're uncomfortable with. Like, hey, we got to open it up here. We've got to try and tie it up.

We've got to do something. And now Montreal can go the other way. Like to me, they haven't been able to play with the lead, you know, for a sustained amount of time where Carolina feels uncomfortable. It's like, hey, we got it. press here let's press let's let's have a strong side deep pinch down and i mean they're an aggressive team anyways but i just i would like to see montreal get a lead early on and keep the building rocking instead of shutting it up two minutes into the game two and five yeah wild