Projected Lineups for Capitals vs Canadiens – 10/31/24

The Washington Capitals take on the Montreal Canadiens tonight at Capital One Arena. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

CANADIENS (4-5-1) at CAPITALS (6-2-0)

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

Canadiens projected lineup

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

Mike Matheson — Kaiden Guhle
Lane Hutson — David Savard
Justin Barron — Jayden Struble

Cayden Primeau
Sam Montembeault

Scratched: Michael Pezzetta, Arber Xhekaj

Injured: Patrik Laine (knee), Rafael Harvey-Pinard (broken leg)

Status report

• Guhle returns after missing five games and Barron returns after missing three games, each because of an upper-body injury.
• The Canadiens reassigned defenseman Logan Mailloux to Laval of the American Hockey League on Wednesday.

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Capitals projected lineup

Aliaksei Protas — Dylan Strome — Alex Ovechkin
Connor McMichael — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom Wilson
Jakub Vrana — Michael Sgarbossa — Andrew Mangiapane
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Taylor Raddysh

Martin Fehervary — John Carlson
Rasmus Sandin — Dylan McIlrath
Alexander Alexeyev — Trevor van Riemsdyk

Charlie Lindgren
Logan Thompson

Scratched: Sonny Milano, Hendrix Lapierre

Injured: Matt Roy (lower body), Jakob Chychrun (upper body)

Status report:

• Chychrun, a defenseman who left in the first period of a 5-3 win against the New York Rangers on Tuesday, skated in a non-contact jersey Thursday.
• Roy, a defenseman, also skated in a non-contact jersey.
• Alexeyev makes his season debut.

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