CANADIENS (26-15-7) at SENATORS (22-19-5)<\/p>\n
7 p.m. ET; TVAS, CITY, SNE<\/p>\n
Canadiens projected lineup<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Alexandre Texier<\/p>\n
Juraj Slafkovsky — Oliver Kapanen — Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n
Zachary Bolduc — Phillip Danault — Josh Anderson<\/p>\n
Sammy Blais — Jake Evans — Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n
Mike Matheson — Noah Dobson<\/p>\n
Lane Hutson — Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n
Kaiden Guhle — Arber Xhekaj<\/p>\n
Sam Montembeault<\/p>\n
Jakub Dobes<\/p>\n
Scratched: Joe Veleno, Jayden Struble<\/p>\n
Injured: Patrik Laine (lower body), Kirby Dach (broken foot), Alex Newhook (broken ankle)<\/p>\n
Senators projected lineup<\/p>\n
Fabian Zetterlund — Tim Stutzle — Drake Batherson<\/p>\n
Brady Tkachuk — Dylan Cozens — Ridly Greig<\/p>\n
Michael Amadio — Shane Pinto — Claude Giroux<\/p>\n
Nick Cousins — Lars Eller — David Perron<\/p>\n
Jake Sanderson — Artem Zub<\/p>\n
Thomas Chabot — Nick Jensen<\/p>\n
Tyler Kleven — Jordan Spence<\/p>\n
Leevi Merilainen<\/p>\n
James Reimer<\/p>\n
Scratched: Kurtis MacDermid, Nikolas Matinpalo<\/p>\n
Injured: None<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
The Canadiens did not hold a morning skate Saturday. … Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said lineup decisions will be made after pregame warmups, with Evans expected to return after missing 13 games with a lower-body injury. … Veleno, a forward, could come out of the lineup to make room for Evans. \u2026 Laine and Dach will not play; each practiced Friday in Ottawa wearing regular practice jerseys. \u2026 The Senators are expected to dress the same 18 skaters they used in an 8-4 win at the New York Rangers on Wednesday. \u2026 Ottawa coach Travis Green would not confirm any lineup changes or whether Leevi Merilainen would make his 10th consecutive start. … Linus Ullmark practiced with the Senators on Friday for the first time since taking a leave of absence Dec. 28, but there remains no timeline for the goalie’s return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANADIENS (26-15-7) at SENATORS (22-19-5) 7 p.m. ET; TVAS, CITY, SNE Canadiens projected lineup Cole Caufield — Nick…\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":["post-416113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416113","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=416113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416113\/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=416113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}