The Canadian is in action this evening while the troop of Martin St. Louis is back at the Bell Center after a long road trip during which the team finished with a 4-2-0 record, beating some NHL powers in the process, such as the Florida Panthers, the Tampa Lightning Bay, the Vegas Golden Knights and the Colorado Avalanche.
This evening, the CH will host the rare visit of the Vancouver Canucks.
As we reported to you earlier, the head coach made the decision to cancel the team’s morning training in preparation for the match.
Typically, players would have hit the ice around 10:30 a.m. in preparation for their evening game but that won’t be the case today as St. Louis will try something different.
As reported by the journalist Anthony Marcotte of BPM Sportstonight’s game will be treated as if it were a road game as the team landed in Montreal yesterday evening. We want to encourage rest.
The Canadian really sees tomorrow’s game at the Bell Center “like a road game.” The club is about to land in St-Hubert and will not hold morning training tomorrow morning. We want to maximize rest. This is completely normal.
– Anthony Marcotte
Head coach Martin St. Louis met with the media a few hours before tonight’s game to confirm his starting lineup.
He confirmed that Samuel Montembeault will be his starting goalie while the attacker Patrik Laine (flu symptoms) as well as the defender David Savard (upper body injury) will each miss a third consecutive game.
No changes will therefore be made to the lineup to face the Canucks.
ROSTER – CANADIENS
ATTACKERS
Caufield – Suzuki – Slafkovsky
Newhook – Dach – Pezzetta
Gallagher – Dvorak – Anderson
Heineman – Evans – Armia
DEFENDERS
Hutson – Matheson
Guhle – Carrier
Xhekaj- Struble
GOALKEEPERS
Montembeault
Beds
More details will follow.
