Sabres at Canadiens

SABRES (7-11-0) at CANADIENS (9-8-1)

Sabres projected lineup
Jeff Skinner -- Tage Thompson -- Alex Tuch
Jack Quinn -- Dylan Cozens -- JJ Peterka
Vinnie Hinostroza -- Casey Mittelstadt -- Victor Olofsson
Rasmus Asplund -- Zemgus Girgensons -- Tyson Jost
Mattias Samuelsson -- Rasmus Dahlin
Owen Power -- Henri Jokiharju
Jacob Bryson -- Ilya Lyubushkin
Craig Anderson
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Scratched:Peyton Krebs, Anders Bjork, Casey Fitzgerald, Lawrence Pilut
Injured:Eric Comrie (lower body), Kyle Okposo (lower body)
Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield -- Nick Suzuki -- Kirby Dach
Juraj Slafkovsky -- Christian Dvorak -- Brendan Gallagher
Evgenii Dadonov -- Sean Monahan -- Josh Anderson
Michael Pezzetta -- Jake Evans -- Joel Armia
Kaiden Guhle -- David Savard
Mike Matheson -- Joel Edmundson
Jordan Harris -- Chris Wideman
Jake Allen
Sam Montembeault
Scratched:Arber Xhekaj, Johnathan Kovacevic
Injured:Jonathan Drouin (upper body), Joel Armia (upper body), Mike Hoffman (lower body)
Status report
Samuelsson returns after missing 13 games because of a lower-body injury. … Girgensons will play after missing a 5-2 loss at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday because of an undisclosed injury. … Krebs will be a healthy scratch. He has three points (no goals and three assists) in 16 games. … Armia returns after missing three games with an upper-body injury. … Harris and Wideman will rotate in as the third pair, and defensemen Xhekaj and Kovacevic will be healthy scratches. … Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis had no update on Hoffman, who will be replaced by Slafkovsky on the third line.