HockeyFeed
Leafs/Habs name starting goalies for Saturday night showdown.
 

Leafs/Habs name starting goalies for Saturday night showdown.

The Maple Leafs and Canadiens have both revealed their starting goaltenders for Saturday night's showdown on Hockey Night in Canada.

Jonathan Larivee

Hockey Night in Canada will feature a huge matchup on Saturday night with two of the biggest hockey markets on the planet clashing when the Toronto Maple Leafs travel to the Bell Centre to take on the Montreal Canadiens.

These are two big teams with a pair of rabid fan bases to match and those two groups of fans have no love for one another so you can expect that this will be a highly anticipated game for many hockey fans on Saturday night. As a result there are a ton of eyeballs on the lineup decisions going into this one and already we've got some indication of who you can expect to see backstopping each team later tonight.

In the case of the Montreal Canadiens, Patrick Friolet of RDS is reporting that it will once again be Samuel Montembeault who will get the start for the Canadiens as he continues a heavy workload that has already seen him appear in 34 games for the Habs this season.

Montembeault has a 2.88 goals against average and a .900 save percentage on the season.

For the Toronto Maple Leafs it looks like it will be Joseph Woll who will get the start with Leafs beat reporter David Alter providing that update early on Saturday morning.

Woll has had a lighter workload, due in part to sharing the workload with Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz as well as due to missing games as a result of an injury earlier in the season, and has recorded a 2.66 goals against average and a .907 save percentage over 23 appearances for the Maple Leafs thus far.

Let me know your predictions for this one in the comments.