The Boston Bruins take on the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
BRUINS (30-36-9) at CANADIENS (35-30-9)
7 p.m. ET; RDS, SN, NESN
Bruins projected lineup
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Morgan Geekie — Pavel Zacha — David Pastrnak
Cole Koepke — Elias Lindholm — Fabian Lysell
Marat Khusnutdinov — Casey Mittelstadt — Vinni Lettieri
Jakub Lauko — John Beecher — Patrick Brown
Nikita Zadorov — Henri Jokiharju
Parker Wotherspoon — Andrew Peeke
Mason Lohrei — Ian Mitchell
Jeremy Swayman
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: Michael Callahan, Jeffrey Viel
Injured: Charlie McAvoy (shoulder), Hampus Lindholm (knee), Mark Kastelic (upper body)
Status report:
Lysell will return after being a healthy scratch for a 4-3 loss to the Washington Capitals on Tuesday.
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Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Emil Heineman — Alex Newhook — Patrik Laine
Josh Anderson — Christian Dvorak — Brendan Gallagher
Michael Pezzetta — Jake Evans — Joel Armia
Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier
Kaiden Guhle — Lane Hutson
Jayden Struble — David Savard
Sam Montembeault
Jakub Dobes
Scratched: Oliver Kapanen, Joshua Roy, Arber Xhekaj
Injured: None
Status report:
The Canadiens will dress the same lineup for a third straight game. … Kapanen took part in the optional morning skate but will not play; the forward joined Montreal after his season with Timra IK of the Swedish Hockey League ended.
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