Lightning projected lineup<\/p>\n
Gage Goncalves — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Jake Guentzel<\/p>\n
Zemgus Girgensons — Yanni Gourde — Nick Paul<\/p>\n
Corey Perry — Dominic James \u2013 Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n
J.J. Moser — Darren Raddysh<\/p>\n
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak<\/p>\n
Declan Carlile — Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
Scratched: Oliver Bjorkstrand, Conor Geekie, Max Crozier, Brandon Halverson, Victor Hedman<\/p>\n
Injured: Pontus Holmberg (upper body), Charle-Edouard D’Astous (undisclosed)<\/p>\n
Canadiens projected lineup<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky<\/p>\n
Alexandre Texier — Alex Newhook — Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n
Zachary Bolduc — Oliver Kapanen — Kirby Dach<\/p>\n
Jake Evans — Phillip Danault \u2013 Josh Anderson<\/p>\n
Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n
Kaiden Guhle — Lane Hutson<\/p>\n
Jayden Struble — Arber Xhekaj<\/p>\n
Jakub Dobes<\/p>\n
Jacob Fowler<\/p>\n
Scratched: Brendan Gallagher, Joe Veleno, Adam Engstrom, David Reinbacher<\/p>\n
Injured: Patrik Laine (lower body), Noah Dobson (upper body)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Each team is expected to dress the same lineup used in the Lightning’s 3-2 overtime win in Game 2 on Tuesday. … D\u2019Astous stayed on the ice with the extras at the end of the optional morning skate; the Tampa Bay defenseman likely will sit out a second straight game after he was injured on a hit by Anderson in the Canadiens’ 4-3 overtime victory in Game 1. … Anderson did not take part in the optional morning skate and did not practice Thursday; the forward went to the dressing room after he was hit from behind by Sabourin in the third period Tuesday but returned and played in overtime. There was no update on his condition. \u2026 Matheson was on the ice Friday after missing practice Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NHL.com independent correspondent Sean Farrell contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning projected lineup Gage Goncalves — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Jake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-605270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}