Updates

Breaking: The team that has played 12/6 in every game so far is playing 12/6.

Dominique Ducharme confirme que Sami Niku disputera son premier match avec Montréal, ce soir.

Dominique Ducharme confirms that defenseman Sami Niku will make his Canadiens debut tonight.#GoHabsGo— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) October 23, 2021

Projected Lines

Forwards

Filip Zadina - Dylan Larkin - Lucas Raymond
Robby Fabbri - Pius Suter - Adam Erne
Vladislav Namestnikov - Michael Rasmussen - Givani Smith
Carter Rowney - Mitchell Stephens - Sam Gagner

Defense
Danny DeKeyser - Filip Hronek
Nick Leddy - Moritz Seider
Marc Staal - Gustav Lindstrom

Goalies
Thomas Greiss
Alex Nedeljkovic

CANADIENS

Forwards

Mike Hoffman - Nick Suzuki - Brendan Gallagher
Jonathan Drouin - Christian Dvorak - Josh Anderson
Tyler Toffoli - Mathieu Perrault - Cole Caulfield
Artturi Lehkonen - Jake Evans - Joel Armia

Defense

Ben Chiarot - Jeff Petry
Alexander Romanov - David Savard
Sami Niku - Brett Kulak

Goaltender

Jake Allen
Samuel Montembault

Keys to the Game

Stick Together

Against the Flames a big part of why Detroit was out of sync was because passes were just a little bit later than players were expecting and they started creeping farther away from each other trying to get up ice.