PENGUINS (14-10-9) at CANADIENS (18-12-4)<\/p>\n
7 p.m. ET; TVAS, CITY, SNE, SN-PIT<\/p>\n
Penguins projected lineup<\/p>\n
Tommy Novak — Sidney Crosby — Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
Anthony Mantha — Rickard Rakell — Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n
Ville Koivunen — Ben Kindel — Rutger McGroarty<\/p>\n
Connor Dewar — Kevin Hayes — Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
Parker Wotherspoon — Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Brett Kulak — Kris Letang<\/p>\n
Ryan Shea — Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
Stuart Skinner<\/p>\n
Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Scratched: Danton Heinen, Ryan Graves, Jack St. Ivany<\/p>\n
Injured: Evgeni Malkin (upper body), Caleb Jones (lower body), Filip Hallander (blood clot), Blake Lizotte (undisclosed)<\/p>\n
Canadiens projected lineup<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Zack Bolduc<\/p>\n
Juraj Slafkovsky — Oliver Kapanen — Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n
Alexandre Texier — Jake Evans — Josh Anderson<\/p>\n
Joe Veleno — Owen Beck — Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n
Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n
Lane Hutson — Noah Dobson<\/p>\n
Arber Xhekaj — Adam Engstrom<\/p>\n
Jacob Fowler<\/p>\n
Jakub Dobes<\/p>\n
Scratched: Jayden Struble, Phillip Danault<\/p>\n
Injured: Kirby Dach (broken foot), Alex Newhook (broken ankle), Kaiden Guhle (lower body), Patrik Laine (lower body)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Rakell will center the second line for the Penguins, and Novak shifts to left wing on their top line. \u201cThe ability to attack through the middle of the ice, I think it\u2019s something that comes natural for (Rakell),\u201d coach Dan Muse said. \u201cYou\u2019ll get that some when you\u2019re playing the wing, but you might get it a little bit more when you\u2019re playing in the middle.\u201d \u2026 Kulak will play with Letang on the second defense pair, and Shea moves to the third pair with Clifton. \u2026 Danault, who was reacquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Kings on Friday, will not play either of Montreal\u2019s games this weekend. He is expected to join the Canadiens for their game at the Boston Bruins on Tuesday. \u2026 Matheson returns after missing two games with an upper-body injury. \u2026 Guhle, a defenseman, and Dach, a forward, were on the ice before an optional morning skate. \u2026 The Canadiens assigned forward Jared Davidson to Laval of the American Hockey League on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENGUINS (14-10-9) at CANADIENS (18-12-4) 7 p.m. ET; TVAS, CITY, SNE, SN-PIT Penguins projected lineup Tommy Novak —…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358218","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\/358218","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=358218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}