Senators at Canadiens preview

SENATORS (14-15-4) at CANADIENS (16-11-5)
7 p.m. ET; SN, TVAS, NHL.TV

Price is 4-0-0 with a 2.37 goals-against-average and .923 save percentage in his past five games (four starts). The Canadiens are 4-1-0 in their past five games.
Goalie Mike McKenna will start for the Senators and face Montreal for the first time in eight seasons; he made 26 saves over the final 58:22 in relief of Johan Hedberg in the New Jersey Devils' 5-1 loss to Montreal at Prudential Center on Dec. 2, 2010.
Ottawa, 2-3-1 in its past six games, has scored two goals or fewer in five of those games.

Players to watch

Senators forward Mark Stone has 12 points (seven goals, five assists) in his past 10 games.
Canadiens defenseman Jeff Petry has six points (four goals, two assists) in a four-game point streak.

They said it

"One big, big thing is Bobby [Ryan] was back. It was gigantic and you realize when you miss guys like that, when they're gone you realize how much you miss them. And when they come back you see the difference between a guy that's fresh and everybody else that's tired. And he was flying out there, he had juice." -- Senators coach Guy Boucher on forward Bobby Ryan, who returned for a 4-2 win at the Detroit Red Wings on Friday after missing three games with a concussion
"Those two guys [forwards Jonathan Drouin and Max Domi] make it fun. They make it easy, just middle lane, drive, go to the net, go to the corner, get the pucks, get it back to them, and you're going to get rewarded doing those little things right." -- Canadiens forward Andrew Shaw on his linemates

Senators projected lineup

Brady Tkachuk -- Colin White -- Mark Stone
Mikkel Boedker -- Chris Tierney -- Bobby Ryan
Ryan Dzingel -- Zack Smith -- Magnus Paajarvi
Nicholas Paul -- Drake Batherson
Thomas Chabot -- Ben Harpur
Max Lajoie -- Cody Ceci
Justin Falk -- Stefan Elliott
Erik Burgdoerfer
Mike McKenna
Craig Anderson
Scratched: Max McCormick, Tom Pyatt
Injured: Jean-Gabriel Pageau (Achilles), Mark Borowiecki (upper body), Matt Duchene (groin), Christian Jaros (lower body), Dylan DeMelo (upper body)

Canadiens projected lineup

Tomas Tatar -- Phillip Danault -- Brendan Gallagher
Jonathan Drouin -- Max Domi -- Andrew Shaw
Paul Byron -- Jesperi Kotkaniemi -- Artturi Lehkonen
Kenny Agostino -- Michael Chaput -- Matthew Peca
Brett Kulak -- Shea Weber
Mike Reilly -- Jeff Petry
Jordie Benn -- Noah Juulsen
Carey Price
Antti Niemi
Scratched: David Schlemko, Charles Hudon, Nicolas Deslauriers
Injured: Joel Armia (knee)

Status report

Neither team held a morning skate. … Jaros will take the pregame warm-up and may return after missing the past four games. ... the Senators could dress 11 forwards and seven defensemen.

Stat pack

Shaw has six points (two goals, four assists) in a six-game point streak. … Domi has five points (three goals, two assists) in his past five games.