The Montreal Canadiens were once again split in two practice teams today at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard in their last practice before the team’s only scrimmage on Sunday at the Bell Centre.
Here is how the lined up today:
Voici les formations aujourd’hui au camp d’entraînement.
Here are today’s training camp rosters. #GoHabsGo 📝 pic.twitter.com/O9cNbsB8sX
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) September 16, 2017
There were no significant changes to the rosters, but the practices were reversed, with Team B took to the ice first today and there were no changes to the lines.
Andreas Martinsen was still on a line with players likely bound for the AHL, and Daniel Carr and Chris Terry stayed together as well.
The two lines with NHL players were untouched from yesterday.
Trios du groupe B ce matin:
Pacioretty-Drouin-Hemsky
Hudon-Plekanec-Lehkonen
Martinsen-Holland-Scherbak
Carr-Terry-Eisenschmid#Habs— Jonathan Bernier (@JBernierJDM) September 16, 2017
The defence all stayed the same as yesterday.
Duos de défenseurs du groupe B:
Mete-Weber
Benn-Streit
Morrow-Davidson
Leblanc- Bourque
Taormina#CH #Habs— Jonathan Bernier (@JBernierJDM) September 16, 2017
The big news yesterday was Victor Mete with Shea Weber, but the other two pairings of NHL defencemen don’t give many clues as to what the plan will be going forward. That means performance in camp will be important as no one is given an obvious advantage.
For Group A taking the ice a bit later, it was a similar story, with the Habs seemingly seeking to find chemistry on the lines before the competitive pre-season games begin.
Groupe A. Également mêmes trios:
Galchenyuk-Danault-Gallagher
JDLR-McCarron-Reway
Grégoire-Audette-Froese
Byron-Mitchell-Shaw#CH #Habs— Jonathan Bernier (@JBernierJDM) September 16, 2017
David Schlemko is absent from today’s practice with a hand injury. Hopefully it is not serious enough to keep him out for significant time.
The injury means a bit of shakeup on defence, with Schlemko replaced by Eric Gelinas on Noah Juulsen’s pairing.
Duos de défenseurs groupe A:
Alzner-Petry
Jerabek-Lernout
Parisi-Redmond
Gélinas-Juulsen
Schlemko blessé#CH #Habs— Jonathan Bernier (@JBernierJDM) September 16, 2017
The Canadiens’ first pre-season game will be on Monday night at the Centre Videotron in Quebec City against the Boston Bruins.