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Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Game 20: Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals<\/p>\n
Start time:\u00a07:00 PM EST \/ 4:00 PM PST
In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French)
In the Capitals regions: MNMT
Streaming: ESPN+, RDS, TSN+<\/p>\n
Montreal may be missing three forwards who would usually play in the top nine and a top-four defenceman, but the club has managed to play some of its best hockey of the season in recent games with those four first-round selections out injured. They have finally given up on trying to create offence by putting the opposing defence in a spin cycle, instead putting them through the wringer with more pressure on the forecheck and getting closer to the net to generate their chances.<\/p>\n
Now the thing they need to address most (outside of the goaltending that isn\u2019t where it was a season ago) is their play in the second period. A couple of goals in the middle frame versus Columbus almost cost them the game, but they regrouped with a strong third period to claim a point. Montreal has now given up at least two second-period goals in each of the past four games, and they can\u2019t afford that against a good defensive team.<\/p>\n
They catch a Washington Capitals team that not only had to travel today after playing at home last night, but tonight will be their sixth game in 10 days. Montreal just enjoyed a couple of days off, and has to take advantage of the opponent\u2019s fatigue with a relentless push tonight.<\/p>\n
Montreal Canadiens projected lineup<\/p>\n
Left Wing
\n Centre
\n Right Wing<\/p>\n
#13 Cole Caufield
\n #14 Nick Suzuki
\n #76 Zachary Bolduc<\/p>\n
#20 Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd
\n #91 Oliver Kapanen
\n #93 Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n
#89 Joshua Roy
\n #71 Jake Evans
\n #17 Josh Anderson<\/p>\n
#49 Jared Davidson
\n #90 Joe Veleno
\n #11 Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n
Left Defence
\n Right Defence<\/p>\n
#8 Mike Matheson
\n #53 Noah Dobson<\/p>\n
#47 Jayden Struble
\n #48 Lane Hutson<\/p>\n
#72 Arber Xhekaj
\n #45 Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n
Starter
\n Backup<\/p>\n
#35 Samuel Montembeault
\n #75 Jakub Dobe\u0161<\/p>\n
Injured: Kirby Dach, Kaiden Guhle, Patrik Laine, Alex Newhook<\/p>\n
Washington Capitals projected lineup<\/p>\n
Left Wing
\n Centre
\n Right Wing<\/p>\n
Alexander Ovechkin
\n Dylan Strome
\n Anthony Beauvillier<\/p>\n
Aliaksei Protas
\n Justin Sourdif
\n Tom Wilson<\/p>\n
Brandon Duhaime
\n Connor McMichael
\n Ryan Leonard<\/p>\n
Sonny Milano
\n Hendrix Lapierre
\n Ethan Frank<\/p>\n
Left Defence
\n Right Defence<\/p>\n
Martin Fehervary
\n John Carlson<\/p>\n
Jakob Chychrun
\n Matt Roy<\/p>\n
Rasmus Sandin
\n Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n
Starter
\n Backup<\/p>\n
Charlie Lindgren
\n Logan Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images Game 20: Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals Start time:\u00a07:00 PM EST \/ 4:00 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-296709","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\/296709","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=296709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}