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Canadiens Game Day: Ben Chiarot returning home to have injured hand evaluated - Montreal Gazette

Ben Chiarot returns home with fractured right hand suffered in fight and Victor Mete will take his spot in lineup Thursday night in Calgary.

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Stu Cowan  •  Montreal Gazette

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Mar 11, 2021  •  5 minutes ago  •  4 minute read  •  comment bubble8 Comments
Canadiens goalie Jake Allen has a 4-2-3 record with a 2.31 goals-against average and a .921 save percentage heading into Thursday night’s game against the Flames in Calgary.
Canadiens goalie Jake Allen has a 4-2-3 record with a 2.31 goals-against average and a .921 save percentage heading into Thursday night’s game against the Flames in Calgary. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette

Jake Allen will be in goal for the Canadiens when they play the Flames Thursday night in Calgary (9 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).

Defenceman Victor Mete, who has played only five games this season, will replace Ben Chiarot in the Canadiens lineup. Chiarot was returning to Montreal on Thursday to be examined by team doctors after suffering a fractured right hand in a fight with Vancouver’s J.T. Miller during a 5-1 win over the Canucks Wednesday night.

During a video conference a couple of hours before Thursday night’s game, Canadiens head coach Dominique Ducharme said rookie Alexander Romanov will start the game as Shea Weber’s defence partner, taking Chiarot’s spot. That means Mete will join Brett Kulak on the third pairing.

“The way we see it is a little bit of movement on the left side of Shea, depending on the game, depending how everything goes,” Ducharme said. “We might see all three guys (paired with Weber).”

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Mete, Kulak and Joel Edmundson can all play the left side.

With the score tied 0-0 at the 15:02 mark of the first period Wednesday night, Chiarot and Miller suddenly squared off for a fight after the puck dropped for a faceoff outside the Vancouver blue line.

There didn’t seem to be any reason for the staged fight with Chiarot landing a solid right hand to the middle of Miller’s visor. Chiarot immediately left for the locker room, throwing his helmet to the ground on the way and then looking at his injured hand. He did not return to the game.

“(Miller) just came off the bench and asked Ben to fight,” Canadiens captain Shea Weber said after the game. “Ben stood up for himself and our team and, obviously, the boys fed off of that and ended up scoring shortly after that. So it was a great job by him.”

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Jesperi Kotkaniemi opened the scoring for the Canadiens 32 seconds after the fight.

As a rookie with the Winnipeg Jets in 2014-15, Chiarot broke his left hand in a fight and ended up missing 16 games.

This Game Day notebook will be updated after Thursday night’s game.

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Tough schedule

The Canadiens flew to Calgary after Wednesday night’s game, arriving around 2:30 a.m.

“It’s part of the challenge with the schedule,” Ducharme said about the back-to-back games within a 22-hour span. “I think the start is important. Getting into the game, making sure we’re dynamic, making sure that we keep our shifts short so that we can keep that pace.”

Allen has a 4-2-3 record with a 2.31 goals-against average and a .921 save percentage this season. The Canadiens were shut out in both of his regulation-time losses.

Carey Price started the last three games for the Canadiens and has allowed only one goal in each of his last four starts. He now has a 8-4-4 record with a 2.59 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage.

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The Canadiens are in fourth place in the North Division with a 12-6-7 record, including 7-1-6 on the road. They are 5-0-2 in seven games against Vancouver while outscoring the Canucks 34-19.

The Canadiens have only played the Flames twice so far this season, winning 4-2 and losing 2-0 in back-to-back games at the Bell Centre at the end of January.

New Flames head coach Darryl Sutter will make his debut behind the Calgary bench Thursday night.

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Lehkonen a healthy scratch again

Canadiens forward Artturi Lehkonen will be a healthy scratch for the fourth straight game and the sixth time this season.

Lehkonen has 2-2-4 totals and is minus-2 in 20 games this season. He is pointless in the last 11 games he has played.

“We’re going with the same lineup beside Victor coming in,” Ducharme said. “I think last night ice time was pretty balanced. With the lead in the third period we could manage that a little bit. For sure we’re going to need everyone. I said it before, I think it’s going to be working well together as a group of five on the ice and having our 18 skaters playing at their best.

The lines

Here’s how the Canadiens forward lines and defence pairings are expected to look against the Flames:

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Drouin – Suzuki – Anderson
Toffoli – Kotkaniemi – Gallagher
Tatar – Danault – Armia
Byron – Evans – Perry

Romanov – Weber
Edmundson – Petry
Mete – Kulak

What’s next?

The Canadiens will have a day off on Friday before playing the Flames again Saturday night at the Saddledome (7 p.m., SNE, CITY, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM).

Next week, the Canadiens will play the Jets in Winnipeg on Monday (8 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM) and Wednesday (9 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM), before returning to Montreal for six straight games at the Bell Centre.

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