STARS (10-4-3) at CANADIENS (10-4-2)<\/p>\n
7 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN2, Victory+<\/p>\n
Stars projected lineup<\/p>\n
Sam Steel — Wyatt Johnston — Mikko Rantanen<\/p>\n
Jason Robertson — Roope Hintz — Tyler Seguin<\/p>\n
Oskar Back — Justin Hyrckowian — Maverick Bourque<\/p>\n
Colin Blackwell — Radek Faksa — Nathan Bastian<\/p>\n
Esa Lindell — Miro Heiskanen<\/p>\n
Thomas Harley — Ilya Lyubushkin<\/p>\n
Lian Bichsel — Alexander Petrovic<\/p>\n
Casey DeSmith<\/p>\n
Jake Oettinger<\/p>\n
Scratched: Kyle Capobianco<\/p>\n
Injured: Jamie Benn (collapsed lung), Adam Erne (undisclosed), Matt Duchene (upper body), Nils Lundkvist (lower body)<\/p>\n
Canadiens projected lineup<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky<\/p>\n
Alex Newhook — Oliver Kapanen — Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n
Zach Bolduc — Kirby Dach — Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n
Josh Anderson — Jake Evans — Joe Veleno<\/p>\n
Mike Matheson — Noah Dobson<\/p>\n
Jayden Struble — Lane Hutson<\/p>\n
Arber Xhekaj — Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n
Jakub Dobes<\/p>\n
Sam Montembeault<\/p>\n
Scratched: None<\/p>\n
Injured: Kaiden Guhle (lower body), Patrik Laine (lower body)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Harley did not take part in the Stars morning skate Thursday but is expected to play. \u2026 Benn skated once again Thursday; Dallas coach Glen Gulutzan is hopeful the forward will make his season debut within the next week. \u201cHe\u2019s had a couple of good skates, yesterday was a really hard skate for him and he got through it,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cAll signs seem to be he is heading in the right direction.\u201d \u2026 The Canadiens will dress the same 18 skaters for the ninth straight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STARS (10-4-3) at CANADIENS (10-4-2) 7 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN2, Victory+ Stars projected lineup Sam Steel — Wyatt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-280886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}