The Montreal Canadiens take on the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena this afternoon. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
CANADIENS (33-30-9) at PANTHERS (44-25-3)
1 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, NHLN, TSN2, RDS
Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Joshua Roy — Alex Newhook — Patrik Laine
Josh Anderson — Christian Dvorak — Brendan Gallagher
Emil Heineman — Jake Evans — Joel Armia
Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier
Jayden Struble — Lane Hutson
Arber Xhekaj — David Savard
Sam Montembeault
Jakub Dobes
Scratched: Michael Pezzetta
Injured: Kaiden Guhle (quad)
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Panthers projected lineup
Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Brad Marchand — Sam Bennett — Mackie Samoskevich
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer — Nico Sturm — Evan Rodrigues
Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Nate Schmidt
Uvis Balinskis — Tobias Bjornfot
Sergei Bobrovsky
Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Tomas Nosek, Jonah Gadjovich
Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov (upper body)
Suspended: Aaron Ekblad
Status report:
Marchand made his Panthers debut in a 2-1 win against the Utah Hockey Club on Friday; he began the game at right wing on the second line and moved to left wing during the third period.
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