The Montreal Canadiens face the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
CANADIENS (3-4-1) at FLYERS (2-5-1)
7 p.m. ET; NBCSP, TSN2, RDS
Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Kirby Dach
Josh Anderson — Jake Evans — Brendan Gallagher
Joel Armia — Alex Newhook — Oliver Kapanen
Michael Pezzetta — Christian Dvorak — Emil Heineman
Mike Matheson — David Savard
Lane Hutson — Logan Mailloux
Jayden Struble — Arber Xhekaj
Cayden Primeau
Sam Montembeault
Scratched: Lucas Condotta
Injured: Juraj Slafkovsky (upper body), Justin Barron (upper body), Kaiden Guhle (upper body), Patrik Laine (knee), Rafael Harvey-Pinard (broken leg)
Status report
- Neither team held a morning skate after each played Saturday.
- Condotta was recalled from Laval of the American Hockey League on Saturday. The forward could play in place of Anderson, who missed the final 4:27 of a 5-2 win against the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
- Primeau will start after Montembeault made 29 saves against the Blues.
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Flyers projected lineup
Travis Konecny — Sean Couturier — Matvei Michkov
Owen Tippett — Morgan Frost — Garnet Hathaway
Scott Laughton — Ryan Poehling — Joel Farabee
Nicolas Deslauriers — Noah Cates — Tyson Foerster
Travis Sanheim — Rasmus Ristolainen
Nick Seeler — Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula — Erik Johnson
Aleksei Kolosov
Ivan Fedotov
Scratched: Bobby Brink, Emil Andrae, Samuel Ersson
Injured: Cam York (upper body)
Status report
- Kolosov could make his NHL debut after being recalled from Lehigh Valley of the AHL on Saturday. He would replace Ersson, a goalie who made 21 saves in a 7-5 win against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.
- The Flyers also recalled Andrae, a defenseman, from Lehigh Valley on Saturday.
- York was placed on injured reserve Saturday and is expected to be out at least two weeks after the defenseman was injured during the third period of a 6-3 loss to the Washington Capitals on Wednesday.
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