Hidden Game: Canadiens toy with Predators to win fourth straight to begin crucial road trip

With Samuel Montembeault in the Witness Protection Program — perhaps never to be heard from again — the Canadiens clearly have established a No. 1 goaltender, along with a 1a.

Saturday night, for the first time in eight days, the Canadiens started 1a. And Jacob Fowler displayed no flashes of inactivity, all things considered.

While Fowler, it could be argued, wasn’t severely tested by Nashville, he stopped 23 shots before allowing a goal on the 24th, and final, shot he faced.