Canadiens at Jets

CANADIENS (5-5-0) at JETS (5-3-1)

Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield -- Nick Suzuki -- Kirby Dach
Josh Anderson -- Christian Dvorak -- Brendan Gallagher
Jonathan Drouin -- Sean Monahan -- Joel Armia
Rem Pitlick -- Jake Evans -- Juraj Slafkovsky
Kaiden Guhle -- David Savard
Joel Edmundson -- Arber Xhekaj
Jordan Harris -- Johnathan Kovacevic
Sam Montembeault
Jake Allen
Scratched:Mike Hoffman, Michael Pezzetta, Chris Wideman
Injured:Mike Matheson (lower body), Emil Heineman (thumb), Evgenii Dadonov (undisclosed)
Jets projected lineup
Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Mason Appleton
Cole Perfetti -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Blake Wheeler
Saku Maenalanen -- Adam Lowry -- Sam Gagner
Dominic Toninato -- David Gustafsson -- Axel Jonsson-Fjallby
Josh Morrissey -- Neal Pionk
Brenden Dillon -- Nate Schmidt
Dylan Samberg -- Dylan DeMelo
Connor Hellebuyck
David Rittich
Scratched:Kyle Capobianco, Jansen Harkins
Injured:Nikolaj Ehlers (undisclosed), Logan Stanley (foot), Morgan Barron (wrist)
Status report
Edmundson will make his season debut. He missed Montreal's first 10 games because of a lower back injury and will replace Wideman in the lineup. ... Dadonov, a forward, was placed on injured reserve. ... Barron will have wrist surgery Friday and the forward is expected to be out 4-5 weeks. ... Stanley was placed on injured reserve Wednesday, retroactive to Oct. 25. Jets coach Rick Bowness said the defenseman has a slight fracture in his foot and will miss a couple of weeks. ... The Jets recalled Harkins, a forward, from Manitoba of the American Hockey League on an emergency basis Wednesday.