Canadiens goaltender Jake Allen out for remainder of season with groin injury
The Montreal Canadiens announced that goaltender Jake Allen will be out for the remainder of the season with a groin injury.
Jake Allen:
Est blessé à l’aine. Sa saison est terminée, mais il sera prêt pour le camp d’entraînement.
He has a groin injury. His season is over, but he’ll be ready for training camp.
Allen sustained the injury in the first period of Saturday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and left the game after stopping 14 of 15 shots in 13:33 of ice time. The Habs announced that they expect he will recover in time for the start of training camp next season.
Allen became the Canadiens starter this season after the team announced that Carey Price would be on a leave of absence. Allen played in 35 games and, like the rest of the team, he struggled, with a 9-20-4 record and a .905 save percentage.
Allen is in the first season of a two-year contract with a $2.875-million cap hit, an extension that he signed with Montreal after they acquired him in the 2020 offseason for a third- and seventh-round draft pick.
The Canadiens have called up Cayden Primeau to replace Allen, and Primeau will likely split starts with Samuel Montembeault for the team’s nine remaining games. Price may potentially get some games in as the season winds down, as he hasn’t been shut down for the season at this point.
Also announced by the Habs Tuesday: defenseman Justin Barron will miss the rest of the season with an ankle injury that won’t require surgery. He came to Montreal in the Artturi Lehkonen trade on deadline day in March. Barron, 20, was a 2020 first-round pick.