Avalanche at Canadiens

AVALANCHE (36-22-6) at CANADIENS (26-34-6)

Avalanche projected lineup
Artturi Lehkonen -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Valeri Nichushkin
Evan Rodrigues -- J.T. Compher -- Mikko Rantanen
Andrew Cogliano -- Lars Eller -- Logan O'Connor
Denis Malgin -- Alex Newhook -- Matt Nieto
Devon Toews -- Cale Makar
Samuel Girard -- Bowen Byram
Jack Johnson -- Brad Hunt
Alexandar Georgiev
Jonas Johansson
Scratched:None
Injured:Pavel Francouz (lower body), Darren Helm (lower body), Erik Johnson (lower body), Gabriel Landeskog (knee), Josh Manson (lower body), Kurtis MacDermid (lower body)
Canadiens projected lineup
Rem Pitlick -- Nick Suzuki -- Denis Gurianov
Mike Hoffman -- Jonathan Drouin -- Josh Anderson
Rafael Harvey-Pinard -- Chris Tierney -- Jesse Ylonen
Michael Pezzetta -- Alex Belzile -- Anthony Richard
Kaiden Guhle -- David Savard
Joel Edmundson -- Chris Wideman
Mike Matheson -- Johnathan Kovacevic
Jake Allen
Sam Montembeault
Scratched:None
Injured:Joel Armia (illness), Justin Barron (upper body), Kirby Dach (lower body), Christian Dvorak (lower body), Jake Evans (lower body), Brendan Gallagher (lower body), Jordan Harris (lower body), Sean Monahan (foot), Juraj Slafkovsky (lower body)
Status report
Helm wore a regular jersey when he took part in the morning skate. The forward last played Jan. 25. … Pitlick and Gurianov were moved to the first line with Suzuki, swapping places with Harvey-Pinard and Ylonen, who will play with Tierney on the third line. … Barron took part in the morning skate but the defenseman will miss his sixth straight game.