A disgusting Jakub Dobes clip is suddenly causing outrage across the hockey world
Jakub Dobes got pulled into an ugly crease sequence, and it set the tone for the kind of night this became for the Canadiens.
Game 2 was nastier, tighter, and way more frustrating than the opener.
That was obvious around Dobes' net, where the scrums got heavier and every inch of ice felt contested.
And once the game turned into that kind of battle, Carolina was much better prepared for it.
Josh Anderson still gave Martin St-Louis a chance to steal it anyway.
He scored both Montreal goals, but the Canadiens still fell 3-2 in overtime as the Hurricanes answered after that 6-2 embarrassment in Game 1.
That tied the Eastern Conference Final at 1-1 before the series heads back to Montreal.
This angle of Jakub Dobes' sequence is making a lot of people furious right now. Fans are calling this one of the dirtiest moments of the game after seeing the replay.
The closer the camera gets, the worse this whole sequence looks for Montreal.
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Carolina turned this into the kind of game Montreal hated
The biggest stat was 12.
That is how many shots the Canadiens put on Frederik Andersen all night. They had only 5 through 40 minutes, and in overtime they did not get a single shot on goal.
Meanwhile, the Hurricanes fired 26 pucks at Dobes.
Martin St-Louis said afterward the game was much tighter than the shot totals made it look, and he had a point there. Montreal defended hard and did not hand Carolina a flood of clean chances either.
But the real difference was execution.
In Game 1, the Canadiens burned the Hurricanes off the rush and found space through the neutral zone. In Game 2, Carolina adjusted and did a much better job shutting down Montreal's exits and cutting off those quick counterattacks.
Nick Suzuki said the Hurricanes were not radically different.
They were just better at stopping Montreal from breaking out cleanly, and that changed the whole feel of the game.
Carolina also blocked 20 shots after watching Montreal block 29 in the opener.
That is why this felt suffocating.
The Canadiens were not awful.
They were not overwhelmed.
They were just smothered.
Anderson was the one forward who kept dragging them back into it. Without him, this game probably ends in regulation.
So yes, this was a frustrating loss.
But it was also a reminder that splitting the first 2 games in Carolina is still a good result for Montreal. Anderson said the group would be fine and sounded ready to get back home in front of the Bell Centre crowd.
Now the question is simple.
Can the Canadiens handle the grind when this series gets ugly again?
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YESTERDAY
MAY 23, 2026
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| G | A | PTS | ||
| Josh Anderson | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Nikolaj Ehlers | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Jalen Chatfield | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Phillip Danault | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Mark Jankowski | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Eric Robinson | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Alexandre Carrier | - | 1 | 1 | |
| William Carrier | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Kaiden Guhle | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jaccob Slavin | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Sebastian Aho | - | - | - | |
| Frederik Andersen | - | - | - | |
| Jackson Blake | - | - | - | |
| Zachary Bolduc | - | - | - | |
| Cole Caufield | - | - | - | |
| Kirby Dach | - | - | - | |
| Ivan Demidov | - | - | - | |
| Jakub Dobes | - | - | - | |
| Noah Dobson | - | - | - | |
| Jake Evans | - | - | - | |
| COMPLETE STATS | ||||