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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