The Montreal Canadiens tackle the Utah Hockey Membership tonight. Listed below are the projected/anticipated lineups sourced from NHL.com employees writers, unbiased correspondents, and others.
CANADIENS (20-18-4) at UTAH (18-17-7)
9 p.m. ET; Utah16, TSN2, RDS
Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Patrik Laine — Kirby Dach — Alex Newhook
Josh Anderson — Christian Dvorak — Brendan Gallagher
Michael Pezzetta — Jake Evans — Joel Armia
Lane Hutson — Mike Matheson
Kaiden Guhle — Alexandre Provider
Arber Xhekaj — David Savard
Sam Montembeault
Jakub Dobes
Scratched: Jayden Struble
Injured: Emil Heineman (higher physique), David Reinbacher (knee)
Standing report
The Canadiens didn’t maintain a morning skate… Heineman, a ahead, will probably be out 3-4 weeks after he was injured in a site visitors accident as a pedestrian Monday. … Newhook will play after lacking apply Monday with an sickness.
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Utah projected lineup
Clayton Keller — Logan Cooley — Nick Schmaltz
Mattias Maccelli — Barrett Hayton — Josh Doan
Jack McBain — Nick Bjugstad — Lawson Crouse
Michael Carson — Kevin Stenlund — Alexander Kerfoot
Mikhail Sergachev — Olli Maatta
Ian Cole — Michael Kesselring
Juuso Valimaki — Nick DeSimone
Karel Vejmelka
Connor Ingram
Scratched: Vladislav Kolyachonok, Liam O’Brien
Injured: Dylan Guenther (decrease physique), Maveric Lamoureux (undisclosed), Sean Durzi (higher physique), John Marino (higher physique), Robert Bortuzzo (decrease physique)
Standing report
Utah held an non-obligatory morning skate… Marino is a game-time choice; the defenseman had lower-back surgical procedure after he was injured throughout coaching camp. He was acquired from the New Jersey Devils on June 29.
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