After another disappointing weekend in St. Louis against the Blues, the Montreal Canadiens rolled into Pittsburgh for a third and final game with the Penguins, on Star Wars night. Montreal once again had to make some last-minute changes as Chris Wideman was unavailable due to his wife giving birth, and Jake Evans was unable to play due to injury.
So Dominique Ducharme shuffled things quite a bit, with Laurent Dauphin getting a promotion up the lineup, as did Mathieu Perreault who slid in on the left of Nick Suzuki. With Wideman out, Jeff Petry and Corey Schueneman both took warm-ups, but Petry was put into the lineup alongside Alexander Romanov.