How to watch
Start time: **10:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM PST**
In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French)
In the Coyotes region: Bally Sports Arizona X
Montreal has hit the road to play in the smallest arena in the league, Mullett Arena on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, which has a capacity of 5000 fans. From a league perspective, it’s a pretty embarrassing scenario to have a professional teams in such a small home, and it has to be a contributing factor to the recently announced flat cap for next season with limited revenue coming in from attendance. As far as fan experience goes, it has been home to a good atmosphere at least, so that should provide a fun backdrop for tonight’s game if Tempeans have any interest in the Montreal Canadiens.
Surely those who follow the Coyotes know about Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki, players with 18 and 15 goals, repsectively. No matter what Martin St-Louis has tried to boost the Canadiens’ offence, it’s those two players who keep producing the majority of the goals. It was Suzuki who had the team’s only goal in Saturday’s game versus the Tampa Bay Lightning to maintain his point-per-game pace through 31 contests.
The goal was impressive, a quick shot from the goal line, but it was the play of Kaiden Guhle that set him up. Guhle is now tied for second in scoring among rookie defencemen with 12 points, Given Montreal’s struggling power play, his effort on that goal was a good audition for some man-advantage time, and it is a bit surprising that he hasn’t received more, playing just 14:43 in that situation so far. With Mike Matheson, their main power-play defenceman when he’s been in the lineup, still in Montreal nursing an injury, will we see more of Guhle on the power play on this road trip?
Montreal Canadiens projected lineup
Forwards
Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
#22 Cole Caufield |
#14 Nick Suzuki |
#17 Josh Anderson |
#20 Juraj Slafkovský |
#77 Kirby Dach |
#27 Jonathan Drouin |
#63 Evgenii Dadonov |
#28 Christian Dvorak |
#68 Mike Hoffman |
#90 Anthony Richard |
#71 Jake Evans |
#40 Joel Armia |
Defencemen
Left Defence |
Right Defence |
Left Defence |
Right Defence |
#44 Joel Edmundson |
#21 Kaiden Guhle |
$54 Jordan Harris |
#26 Johnny Kovacevic |
#72 Arber Xhekaj |
#6 Chris Wideman |
Goaltenders
Starter |
Backup |
Starter |
Backup |
#35 Samuel Montembeault |
#34 Jake Allen |
Scratched: Michael Pezzetta
Injured: Paul Byron, Brendan Gallagher, Mike Matheson, Sean Monahan, David Savard
Arizona Coyotes projected lineup
Forwards
Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
Clayton Keller |
Travis Boyd |
Nick Schmaltz |
Lawson Crouse |
Nick Bjugstad |
Matias Maccelli |
Nick Ritchie |
Jack McBain |
Christian Fischer |
|
Barrett Hayton |
Zack Kassian |
Defencemen
Left Defence |
Right Defence |
Left Defence |
Right Defence |
Jakob Chychrun |
Shayne Gostisbehere |
J.J. Moser |
Josh Brown |
Patrik Nemeth |
Troy Stecher |
Juuso Valimaki |
|
Goaltenders
Starter |
Backup |
Starter |
Backup |
Karel Vejmelka |
Connor Ingram |
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