Lightning at Canadiens

LIGHTNING (42-23-6) at CANADIENS (27-37-6)

Lightning projected lineup
Brandon Hagel -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Ross Colton -- Steven Stamkos -- Nick Paul
Tanner Jeannot -- Anthony Cirelli -- Alex Killorn
Patrick Maroon -- Michael Eyssimont -- Corey Perry
Victor Hedman -- Nick Perbix
Mikhail Sergachev -- Darren Raddysh
Ian Cole -- Erik Cernak
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Brian Elliott
Scratched: Haydn Fleury, Zach Bogosian, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
Injured: None
Canadiens projected lineup
Rafael Harvey-Pinard -- Nick Suzuki -- Kirby Dach
Denis Gurianov -- Jonathan Drouin -- Josh Anderson
Mike Hoffman -- Alex Belzile -- Brendan Gallagher
Michael Pezzetta -- Chris Tierney -- Rem Pitlick
Mike Matheson -- David Savard
Joel Edmundson -- Justin Barron
Johnathan Kovacevic -- Chris Wideman
Sam Montembeault
Jake Allen
Scratched: None
Injured: Joel Armia (illness), Christian Dvorak (lower body), Jake Evans (lower body), Kaiden Guhle (lower body), Jordan Harris (lower body), Sean Monahan (foot), Juraj Slafkovsky (lower body), Jesse Ylonen (illness)
Status report
Vasilevskiy is expected to start for the eighth time in 10 games. … Montembeault will make his fourth straight start. … Gallagher and Dach each will return after long absences because of a lower-body injuyr; Gallagher has missed 32 games and Dach has missed 16. ... Evans, a center, and Harris, a defenseman, each wore a non-contact jerseys and took part in the Canadiens morning skate Tuesday. … Montreal assigned forward Anthony Richard to Laval of the American Hockey League on Tuesday.