Projected Lineups for the Blackhawks vs Canadiens – 4/14/25

The Chicago Blackhawks take on the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

BLACKHAWKS (23-46-11) at CANADIENS (39-31-10)

7 p.m. ET; RDS, Prime, CHSN

Blackhawks projected lineup

Ryan Donato — Connor Bedard — Ilya Mikheyev
Teuvo Teravainen — Frank Nazar — Tyler Bertuzzi
Nick Foligno — Ryan Greene — Oliver Moore
Landon Slaggert — Joe Veleno — Lukas Reichel

Alex Vlasic — Sam Rinzel
Connor Murphy — Louis Crevier
Wyatt Kaiser — Artyom Levshunov

Arvid Soderblom
Spencer Knight

Scratched: Philipp Kurashev, Kevin Korchinski

Injured: Laurent Brossoit (knee), Colton Dach (elbow) Jason Dickinson (wrist)

Status report:

Greene will make his NHL debut

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Canadiens projected lineup

Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Joel Armia — Alex Newhook — Ivan Demidov
Josh Anderson — Christian Dvorak — Brendan Gallagher
Oliver Kapanen — Jake Evans — Patrik Laine

Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier
Kaiden Guhle — Lane Hutson
Jayden Struble — David Savard

Sam Montembeault
Jakub Dobes

Scratched: Joshua Roy, Arber Xhekaj, Michael Pezzetta

Injured: Emil Heineman (upper body)

Status Report:

Demidov will make his NHL debut and also see time on the second power-play unit. … Heineman, a forward, will miss his fifth straight game. He is day to day.

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