Flyers at Canadiens

FLYERS (7-7-3) at CANADIENS (8-8-1)

Flyers projected lineup
Scott Laughton -- Kevin Hayes -- Joel Farabee
Owen Tippett -- Noah Cates -- Zack MacEwen
Max Willman -- Morgan Frost -- Kieffer Bellows
Nicolas Deslauriers -- Lukas Sedlak -- Patrick Brown
Ivan Provorov -- Tony DeAngelo
Travis Sanheim -- Justin Braun
Nick Seeler -- Rasmus Ristolainen
Carter Hart
Felix Sandstrom
Scratched: Egor Zamula
Injured: Sean Couturier (back), James van Riemsdyk (finger), Wade Allison (oblique/hip), Ryan Ellis (back), Cam Atkinson (upper body), Travis Konecny (upper body)
Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield -- Nick Suzuki -- Kirby Dach
Mike Hoffman -- Christian Dvorak -- Brendan Gallagher
Evgenii Dadonov -- Sean Monahan -- Josh Anderson
Michael Pezzetta -- Jake Evans -- Juraj Slafkovsky
Kaiden Guhle -- David Savard
Mike Matheson -- Joel Edmundson
Arber Xhekaj -- Johnathan Kovacevic
Jake Allen
Sam Montembeault
Scratched: Chris Wideman, Jordan Harris
Injured: Jonathan Drouin (upper body), Joel Armia (upper body)
Status report
The Flyers did not hold a morning skate Saturday. ... Konecny will not play and returned to Philadelphia for further observation; the forward left during the second period of a 4-1 loss at the Boston Bruins on Thursday after a collision with Bruins forward David Pastrnak. ... Farabee will move up to take Konecny's spot on the first line and Bellows will enter the lineup and take Farabee's place on the third line. ... Matheson will make his season debut. He was acquired in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Jeff Petry and forward Ryan Poehling on July 16, but missed the first 17 games because of a strained abdominal muscle. … Harris, a rookie defenseman, will be a healthy scratch after playing every game this season.