Olympics 2026: 'Samuel Montembeault is the easy choice to avoid the subject of Québécois'

[content-ads]Basically, then, what we understand is that instead of wanting to say that “Montembeault will be there because he’s a Québécois,” Simmons wanted to say instead that “it takes a Québécois, so we might as well put Montembeault.

Simmons explainsthatthe pressure, which is so “obvious” that only the naive and uninformed don’t see it, comes from the fact that the Québécois media mainly cover what’s going on with Québécois athletes. It’s abit ironic that, in the same text, he talks about Victoria Mboko, a tennis player who grew up in Toronto and who has literally stolen the spotlight in all the Québécois media over the past two weeks, but I guess I must be naive or uninformed. Basically, it’s true that the absence of Québécois on the Canadian team is an issue that would get people talking. As we saw at the 4 Nations Confrontation, even with Montembeault, the subject of Québécois was one that got people talking, except that Montembeault , who has been one of the NHL’s very good goaltenders in recent years, isn’t there just because “we need a Québécois” or because “the Québécois media are putting pressure on Hockey Canada”.

And it should be noted that Simmons, in his text, notes that Montembeault “could deserve a position regardless of his origins”… except that for a country looking for help in front of the net, it seems to me that the “could” should be a “should”.Spacer title=’Overtime’]- I like it.