Projected Lineups for the Canadiens vs Flyers – 10/27/24 - The Hockey Writers - Montreal Canadiens

The Montreal Canadiens face the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

CANADIENS (3-4-1) at FLYERS (2-5-1)

7 p.m. ET; NBCSP, TSN2, RDS

Canadiens projected lineup

Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Kirby Dach
Josh Anderson — Jake Evans — Brendan Gallagher
Joel Armia — Alex Newhook — Oliver Kapanen
Michael Pezzetta — Christian Dvorak — Emil Heineman

Mike Matheson — David Savard
Lane Hutson — Logan Mailloux
Jayden Struble — Arber Xhekaj

Cayden Primeau
Sam Montembeault

Scratched: Lucas Condotta

Injured: Juraj Slafkovsky (upper body), Justin Barron (upper body), Kaiden Guhle (upper body), Patrik Laine (knee), Rafael Harvey-Pinard (broken leg)

Status report

Neither team held a morning skate after each played Saturday.
Condotta was recalled from Laval of the American Hockey League on Saturday. The forward could play in place of Anderson, who missed the final 4:27 of a 5-2 win against the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
Primeau will start after Montembeault made 29 saves against the Blues.

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Flyers projected lineup

Travis Konecny — Sean Couturier — Matvei Michkov
Owen Tippett — Morgan Frost — Garnet Hathaway
Scott Laughton — Ryan Poehling — Joel Farabee
Nicolas Deslauriers — Noah Cates — Tyson Foerster

Travis Sanheim — Rasmus Ristolainen
Nick Seeler — Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula — Erik Johnson

Aleksei Kolosov
Ivan Fedotov

Scratched: Bobby Brink, Emil Andrae, Samuel Ersson

Injured: Cam York (upper body)

Status report

Kolosov could make his NHL debut after being recalled from Lehigh Valley of the AHL on Saturday. He would replace Ersson, a goalie who made 21 saves in a 7-5 win against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.
The Flyers also recalled Andrae, a defenseman, from Lehigh Valley on Saturday.
York was placed on injured reserve Saturday and is expected to be out at least two weeks after the defenseman was injured during the third period of a 6-3 loss to the Washington Capitals on Wednesday.