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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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