Canadiens at Lightning

CANADIENS (7-21-3) at LIGHTNING (20-6-4)

Canadiens projected lineup
Jonathan Drouin -- Nick Suzuki -- Brendan Gallagher
Rafael Harvey-Pinard -- Ryan Poehling -- Cole Caufield
Alex Belzile -- Jake Evans -- Jesse Ylonen
Michael Pezzetta -- Cedric Paquette -- Lukas Vejdemo
Alexander Romanov -- David Savard
Brett Kulak -- Kale Clague
Sami Niku -- Corey Schueneman
Sam Montembeault
Cayden Primeau
Scratched: Paul Byron, Louie Belpedio, Brandon Baddock
Injured: Christian Dvorak (lower body), Tyler Toffoli (upper body), Josh Anderson (upper body), Joel Edmundson (undisclosed)
COVID-19 protocol: Laurent Dauphin, Mike Hoffman, Artturi Lehkonen, Jake Allen , Ben Chiarot, Jeff Petry, Chris Wideman
Lightning projected lineup
Alex Killorn -- Brayden Point -- Mathieu Joseph
Ondrej Palat -- Steven Stamkos -- Taylor Raddysh
Patrick Maroon -- Ross Colton -- Gabriel Fortier
Boris Katchouk -- Riley Nash -- Corey Perry
Victor Hedman -- Jan Rutta
Ryan McDonagh -- Zach Bogosian
Sean Day
-- Cal Foote
Maxime Lagace
Hugo Alnefelt
Scratched: Gemel Smith, Darren Raddysh
Injured: Nikita Kucherov (lower body), Erik Cernak (lower body)
COVID-19 protocol: Anthony Cirelli, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Mikhail Sergachev, Andrej Sustr, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Brian Elliott
Status report
Gallagher will return after missing seven games in COVID-19 protocol. ... Schueneman and Primeau each was recalled from Laval of the American Hockey League on Monday. ... Belpedio, a defenseman, and Baddock, a forward, were called up from the taxi squad but it's unknown if either will play for the Canadiens. ... Point is expected to return after missing 14 games with an upper-body injury. ...Day will make his NHL debut; he, Lagace and Alnefelt each was recalled from Syracuse of the AHL on Monday.