NHL Projected Lineups, Starting Goalies, Injuries, Updates

Check back each day to get the projected lineups, starting goalies, injury news, and roster updates for every game. On weekends, the lineups will be published prior to matinee games.

Sources: NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents and others.

UTAH (23-23-9) at CAPITALS (36-11-7)

12:30 p.m. ET; Utah16, MNMT, SN

Utah projected lineup

Clayton Keller — Alexander Kerfoot — Nick Schmaltz
Dylan Guenther — Barrett Hayton — Michael Carcone
Lawson Crouse — Jack McBain — Josh Doan
Liam O’Brien — Kevin Stenlund — Nick Bjugstad

Mikhail Sergachev — John Marino
Ian Cole — Michael Kesselring
Olli Maatta — Nick DeSimone

Connor Ingram
Karel Vejmelka

Scratched: Juuso Valimaki, Matias Maccelli

Injured: Logan Cooley (lower body), Sean Durzi (upper body), Robert Bortuzzo (lower body)

Status report

Utah placed Vladislav Kolyachonok on waivers Saturday with the purpose of assigning the defenseman to Tucson of the American Hockey League.

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Capitals projected lineup

Alex Ovechkin — Dylan Strome — Tom Wilson
Aliaksei Protas — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Connor McMichael
Taylor Raddysh — Lars Eller — Ethen Frank
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Andrew Mangiapane

Rasmus Sandin — John Carlson
Martin Fehervary — Matt Roy
Jakob Chychrun — Trevor van Riemsdyk

Logan Thompson
Charlie Lindgren

Scratched: Dylan McIlrath, Alexander Alexeyev, Jakub Vrana

Injured: Sonny Milano (upper body)

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LIGHTNING (30-20-4) at CANADIENS (25-25-5)

1 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN2, NHLN, FDSNSUN

Lightning projected lineup

Jake Guentzel — Anthony Cirelli — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Brayden Point — Gage Goncalves\
Zemgus Girgensons — Nick Paul — Michael Eyssimont
Dylan Duke — Luke Glendening — Mitchell Chaffee

Victor Hedman — Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg — Nick Perbix

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Brandon Halverson

Scratched: Cam Atkinson

Injured: J.J. Moser (lower body), Jonas Johansson (lower body)

Status report

Vasilevskiy could make back-to-back starts; he made 34 saves in a 6-3 win at the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday. 

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Canadiens projected lineup

Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Alex Newhook — Kirby Dach — Josh Anderson
Patrik Laine — Jake Evans — Joel Armia
Owen Beck — Christian Dvorak — Brendan Gallagher

Lane Hutson — Logan Mailloux
Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier
Arber Xhekaj — David Savard

Jakub Dobes
Sam Montembeault

Scratched: Michael Pezzetta, Jayden Struble

Injured: Emil Heineman (upper body), Kaiden Guhle (lacerated quadricep muscle)

Status report:

Dobes will start; Montembeault, who will play for Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off to be held in Montreal and Boston from Feb. 12-20, made 18 saves in a 4-0 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Saturday.

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