The Philadelphia Flyers 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.
FLYERS (31-36-9) at CANADIENS (36-30-9)
7 p.m. ET; TVAS, CITY, SNE, NBCSP
Flyers projected lineup
Tyson Foerster — Noah Cates — Bobby Brink
Matvei Michkov — Sean Couturier — Travis Konecny
Jakob Pelletier — Ryan Poehling — Owen Tippett
Nicolas Deslauriers — Karsen Dorwart — Garnet Hathaway
Nick Seeler — Travis Sanheim
Cam York — Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula — Emil Andrea
Samuel Ersson
Ivan Fedotov
Scratched: Rodrigo Abols, Aleksei Kolosov, Olle Lycksell
Injured: Rasmus Ristolainen (upper body)
Status report
Dorwart will make his NHL debut; he signed a two-year entry level contract as an undrafted free agent March 29 after the conclusion of his junior season with Michigan State.
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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 fourth straight game.
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