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Game 10: Montreal Canadiens @ Vancouver Canucks
Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT
In Canada: CBC, OMNI-2 (English), TVA Sports (French)
In the United States: NHL Network
Streaming: Sportsnet+, CBC Gem
The Canadiens players have had 48 hours to seethe about how the final minutes of the game in Edmonton transpired. They know they should have a 7-2 record on the season, but as things stand their 6-3 mark is still good enough to lead the division and keep them among the top teams in the NHL. As for their play on the ice, there wasn’t a lot to be concerned about with the effort that night outside of the number of goals the opponent was able to score. They were getting the puck to the slot and outchanced the Oilers in each period, they just didn’t get the result they deserved.
The aim tonight should be to take things up a notch further and put the result too far out of reach for anyone to snatch away from them. That’s not an impossible ask from a club that has scored four goals or more in four games already this season. Vancouver’s special teams are slightly worse than Montreal’s to help in that task.
Jakub Dobeš will get the start tonight, and considering the way he’s been playing to begin the season it’s possible he’ll get the call on Tuesday for the final game of the trip in Seattle as well. He has at least temporarily taken over the starting duties in Montreal with a perfect 4-0 record and the best save percentage in the NHL of any goaltender to play more than one game at .950. He’s going to make it tough for the Canucks to outperform their average of just over two-and-a-half goals per game.
Montreal Canadiens projected lineup
Left Wing
Centre
Right Wing
#13 Cole Caufield
#14 Nick Suzuki
#20 Juraj Slafkovský
#15 Alex Newhook
#91 Oliver Kapanen
#93 Ivan Demidov
#17 Josh Anderson
#71 Jake Evans
#11 Brendan Gallagher
#76 Zachary Bolduc
#77 Kirby Dach
#90 Joe Veleno
Left Defence
Right Defence
#8 Mike Matheson
#53 Noah Dobson
#47 Jayden Struble
#48 Lane Hutson
#72 Arber Xhekaj
#45 Alexandre Carrier
Starter
Backup
#75 Jakub Dobeš
#35 Samuel Montembeault
Scratched: Marc Del Gaizo, Joshua Roy
Injured: Kaiden Guhle, Patrik Laine
Vancouver Canucks projected lineup
Left Wing
Centre
Right Wing
Evander Kane
Elias Pettersson
Conor Garland
Jake DeBrusk
Max Sasson
Brock Boeser
Drew O’Connor
Aatu Raty
Kiefer Sherwood
Arshdeep Bains
Nils Aman
Linus Karlsson
Left Defence
Right Defence
Quinn Hughes
Filip Hronek
Marcus Pettersson
Tyler Myers
Elias Pettersson
Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Starter
Backup
Thatcher Demko
Kevin Lankinen
