How to watch
Game 2: Montreal Canadiens @ Pittsburgh Penguins
Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT
In Canada: Sportsnet East (English), TVA Sports (French)
In the Penguins region: SportsNet Pittsburgh
Streaming: ESPN+, Sportsnet+, TVA Sports+
With three days to review their tactics from the season-opening win in Toronto, the Canadiens hit the ice for game two versus a better, deeper Pittsburgh Penguins team. Like Montreal, the Penguins received offence from lower in their lineup to knock off their opponent to begin the new campaign, but they had the additional output of two goals from Sidney Crosby’s new winger, Nick Robertson.
As the Philadelphia Flyers found out, the Penguins can get goals from any line. Montreal will be using its more aggressive defence to prevent the Pens from putting seven on the board again tonight, and try to provide more of a defensive test than the Flyers were able to administer.
Special teams were big for the Penguins in their first win, with two power-play goals on four opportunities and a short-handed marker. Montreal didn’t allow Toronto to score any goals on the man advantage despite facing a couple of potent units, and repeating that performance would be a big help in limiting the production of a dangerous team.
Montreal Canadiens projected lineup
| Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
| #13 Cole Caufield |
#14 Nick Suzuki |
#22 Chris Kreider |
| #20 Juraj Slafkovský |
#15 Alex Newhook |
#93 Ivan Demidov |
| #85 Alexandre Texier |
#24 Phillip Danault |
#77 Kirby Dach |
| #76 Zachary Bolduc |
#71 Jake Evans |
#17 Josh Anderson |
| Left Defence |
Right Defence |
| #48 Lane Hutson |
#45 Alexandre Carrier |
| #8 Mike Matheson |
#53 Noah Dobson |
| #47 Jayden Struble |
#72 Arber Xhekaj |
| Starter |
Backup |
| #75 Jakub Dobeš |
#35 Samuel Montembeault |
Injured: Kaiden Guhle
Scratched: Adam Engström, Oliver Kapanen, Florian Xhekaj
Pittsburgh Penguins projected lineup
| Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
| Nick Robertson |
Sidney Crosby |
Rickard Rakell |
| Egor Chinakhov |
Tommy Novak |
Evgeni Malkin |
| Ville Koivunen |
Hendrix Lapierre |
Filip Hållander |
| Connor Dewar |
Ben Kindel |
Andrei Kuzmenko |
| Left Defence |
Right Defence |
| Declan Carlile |
Erik Karlsson |
| Samuel Girard |
Kaeden Korczak |
| Trevor van Riemsdyk |
Kris Letang |
| Starter |
Backup |
| Arturs Silovs |
Sergei Murashov |
