Canadiens vs. Islanders: Game thread and lines - Habs Eyes on the Prize

Game 48: Montreal Canadiens vs. New York Islanders

Start time: 7:00 PM EST / 4:00 PM PST
In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French)
In the Islanders region: MSGSN
Streaming: ESPN+, RDS, TSN+

No pressure on Lucas Condotta, but he gets set to play his second NHL game with a goal-per-game stat line to maintain, scoring in his league debut a season ago. Tonight he will be playing on the fourth line, and Martin St-Louis hopes to have four serviceable trios to deploy versus the New York Islanders.

New York is 1-1 since Patrick Roy took over head-coaching duties, losing despite outshooting the Vegas Golden Knights 42-27 on Tuesday. Habs goaltenders are no strangers to that type of shot total, and tonight it will be Samuel Montembeault back in the net to face it, his first start since getting pulled versus Boston five days ago in a game he’d rather forget. He has yet to lose back-to-back games in regulation through 21 starts this season, and he has a bit of motivation to keep that streak going with the goalie he looked up to growing up standing behind the opponent’s bench.

Montreal Canadiens projected lineup

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
#22 Cole Caufield	#14 Nick Suzuki	#17 Josh Anderson
#20 Juraj Slafkovský	#91 Sean Monahan	#40 Joel Armia
#11 Brendan Gallagher	#71 Jake Evans	#49 Rafaël Harvey-Pinard
#70 Tanner Pearson	#82 Lucas Condotta	#56 Jesse Ylönen

Left Defence	Right Defence
#8 Mike Matheson	#58 David Savard
#47 Jayden Struble	#21 Kaiden Guhle
#72 Arber Xhekaj	#26 Johnny Kovacevic

Starter	Backup
#35 Samuel Montembeault	#34 Jake Allen

Injured: Kirby Dach, Christian Dvorak, Alex Newhook, Chris Wideman
Scratched: Jordan Harris, Cayden Primeau, Jesse Ylönen

New York Islanders projected lineup

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Anders Lee	Bo Horvat	Mathew Barzal
Pierre Engvall	Brock Nelson	Kyle Palmieri
Simon Holmstrom	Jean-Gabriel Pageau	Julien Gauthier
Matt Martin	Kyle MacLean	Cal Clutterbuck

Left Defence	Right Defence
Alexander Romanov	Noah Dobson
Adam Pelech	Sebastian Aho
Samuel Bolduc	Scott Mayfield

Starter	Backup
Semyon Varlamov	Ilya Sorokin

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