{"id":400480,"date":"2026-01-08T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400480\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:45:09","slug":"panthers-at-canadiens-projected-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400480\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers at Canadiens projected lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PANTHERS (22-17-3) at CANADIENS (24-13-6)<\/p>\n<p>7 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN2, SCRIPPS<\/p>\n<p>Panthers projected lineup<\/p>\n<p>Eetu Luostarinen &#8212; Anton Lundell &#8212; Sam Reinhart<\/p>\n<p>Carter Verhaeghe &#8212; Sam Bennett &#8212; A.J. Greer<\/p>\n<p>Jesper Boqvist &#8212; Evan Rodrigues &#8212; Mackie Samoskevich<\/p>\n<p>Noah Gregor &#8212; Luke Kunin &#8212; Jack Studnicka<\/p>\n<p>Gustav Forsling &#8212; Aaron Ekblad<\/p>\n<p>Niko Mikkola &#8212; Uvis Balinskis<\/p>\n<p>Donovan Sebrango &#8212; Jeff Petry<\/p>\n<p>Sergei Bobrovsky<\/p>\n<p>Daniil Tarasov<\/p>\n<p>Scratched: Tobias Bjornfot<\/p>\n<p>Injured: Brad Marchand (undisclosed), Seth Jones (upper body), Aleksander Barkov (knee), Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Tomas Nosek (knee), Jonah Gadjovich (upper body), Dmitry Kulikov (shoulder), Cole Schwindt (arm)<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens projected lineup<\/p>\n<p>Cole Caufield &#8212; Nick Suzuki &#8212; Alexandre Texier<\/p>\n<p>Juraj Slafkovsky &#8212; Oliver Kapanen &#8212; Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Bolduc &#8212; Phillip Danault &#8212; Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n<p>Sammy Blais &#8212; Joe Veleno &#8212; Owen Beck<\/p>\n<p>Mike Matheson &#8212; Noah Dobson<\/p>\n<p>Lane Hutson &#8212; Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n<p>Arber Xhekaj &#8212; Jayden Struble<\/p>\n<p>Sam Montembeault<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Dobes<\/p>\n<p>Scratched: Jacob Fowler<\/p>\n<p>Injured: Kirby Dach (broken foot), Alex Newhook (broken ankle), Kaiden Guhle (lower body), Patrik Laine (lower body), Jake Evans (lower body), Josh Anderson (upper body)<\/p>\n<p>Status report<\/p>\n<p>Marchand is day to day and will not play; the forward did not take part in the Panthers&#8217; morning skate Thursday after leaving following the second period of a 4-1 win at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday. Coach Paul Maurice did not rule out a possible return at the Ottawa Senators on Saturday. \u2026 The Canadiens did not hold a morning skate following a 4-1 win against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. \u2026 Dobes and Fowler practiced with goalie coach Eric Raymond. &#8230; Laine, a forward, and Guhle, a defenseman, also took to the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANTHERS (22-17-3) at CANADIENS (24-13-6) 7 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN2, SCRIPPS Panthers projected lineup Eetu Luostarinen &#8212; Anton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-400480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}