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Mar 15, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Florida Panthers defenseman Uvis Balinskis (26) defends against Montreal Canadiens right wing Brendan Gallagher (11) in the third period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Game 44: Montreal Canadiens vs. Florida Panthers<\/p>\n
Start time:\u00a07:00 PM EST \/ 4:00 PM PST
In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French)
In the Panthers region: Scripps
Streaming: ESPN+, RDS, TSN+<\/p>\n
If you were looking forward to seeing some retribution from the Canadiens for Brad Marchand\u2019s hit on Mike Matheson in their last meeting that forced the Habs defenceman to miss a couple of games, you won\u2019t find any satisfaction tonight as Marchand is out of the lineup. Also out is defenceman Seth Jones, who sustained an injury several days ago and will miss a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
What was already a Panthers lineup considerably weakened by injuries is now nearly unrecognizable with only a handful of the players who won the Stanley Cup a season ago set to play tonight. After Sam Reinhart and his 44 points through 42 games, the Panthers\u2019 next-highest scorers are Sam Bennett and Anton Lundell at 31. It\u2019s a formation not a whole lot different from the one Montreal just played last night when Calgary visited, with the differences being better team play and of course their championship pedigree.<\/p>\n
Samuel Montembeault has been tasked with shutting down the offensive players who remain. He has done that well enough over the past couple of years, and can really solidify Montreal\u2019s standing in the Atlantic Division if he can back his team to a fifth win in six games dating back to the first meeting of the season between these two teams.<\/p>\n
Montreal Canadiens projected lineup<\/p>\n
Left Wing
\n Centre
\n Right Wing<\/p>\n
#20 Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd
\n #91 Oliver Kapanen
\n #93 Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n
#13 Cole Caufield
\n #14 Nick Suzuki
\n #85 Alexandre Texier<\/p>\n
#76 Zachary Bolduc
\n #24 Phillip Danault
\n #11 Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n
#27 Sammy Blais
\n #90 Joe Veleno
\n #62 Owen Beck<\/p>\n
Left Defence
\n Right Defence<\/p>\n
#8 Mike Matheson
\n #53 Noah Dobson<\/p>\n
#48 Lane Hutson
\n #45 Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n
#72 Arber Xhekaj
\n #47 Jayden Struble<\/p>\n
Starter
\n Backup<\/p>\n
#35 Samuel Montembeault
\n #75 Jakub Dobe\u0161<\/p>\n
Scratched: Jacob Fowler
Injured: Josh Anderson, Kirby Dach, Jake Evans, Kaiden Guhle, Patrik Laine, Alex Newhook<\/p>\n
Florida Panthers projected lineup<\/p>\n
Left Wing
\n Centre
\n Right Wing<\/p>\n
Eetu Luostarinen
\n Anton Lundell
\n Sam Reinhart<\/p>\n
Carter Verhaeghe
\n Sam Bennett
\n A.J. Greer<\/p>\n
Jesper Boqvist
\n Evan Rodrigues
\n Mackie Samoskevich<\/p>\n
Noah Gregor
\n Luke Kunin
\n Jack Studnicka<\/p>\n
Left Defence
\n Right Defence<\/p>\n
Gustav Forsling
\n Aaron Ekblad<\/p>\n
Niko Mikkola
\n Uvis Balinskis<\/p>\n
Donovan Sebrango
\n Jeff Petry<\/p>\n
Starter
\n Backup<\/p>\n
Sergei Bobrovsky
\n Daniil Tarasov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 15, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Florida Panthers defenseman Uvis Balinskis (26) defends against Montreal Canadiens right wing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-397628","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\/397628","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=397628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}