Projected Lineups for the Flyers vs Canadiens – 4/5/25

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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