Canadiens vs Hurricanes: Game Thread

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Carolina and Montreal will meet for the third and final time this year, with both teams having won a game in the previous two meetings.

Carolina is on a hot streak, going 7-3 in their last 10 games, whereas Montreal has relied on Carey Price to win their last two games.

Price is not only on fire, he’s basically human lava. His .972 save percentage in the last two wins is encouraging for the netminder, however it’s worrisome for the team, as it’s absolutely impossible for Price to maintain that type of save percentage, no matter how good he is.

If Montreal looks to hold onto their playoff spot they’ll need sustained scoring (from someone other than Pacioretty) & sturdy denfence, two things they’ve lacked for months now.

At the moment John-Michael Liles is a game time decision, if he’s unable to go it’s expected that former All-Star (bahahaha) Mike Komisarek will take his spot.

George Parros practiced with the 4th line, however Michel Therrien declared that long-time healthy scratch Francis Bouillon would be dressing, which means Montreal will go with 7 D tonight.

Before the game, check out Berkshire on the Montreal Hockey Talk pregame show:

Puck drop is at 6:00 PM at the PNC Arena.

Here are your projected lineups:

**Montreal Canadiens Prospective Lineup**
Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Daniel Briere	Tomas Plekanec	Brian Gionta
Max Pacioretty	David Desharnais	Brendan Gallagher
Rene Bourque	Lars Eller	Brandon Prust
	Ryan White	Dale Weise

Left Defense	Right Defense
Josh Gorges	P.K. Subban
Andrei Markov	Alexei Emelin
Douglas Murray	Nathan Beaulieu
	Francis Bouillon

Goaltenders

Carey Price

Peter Budaj

Scratches: George Parros

Injuries: Davis Drewiske (shoulder surgery, practicing), Alex Galchenyuk (wrist, 3-4 weeks), Travis Moen (lower body injury), Michael Bournival (hit with stick, possible concussion issues)

As for Carolina:

**Carolina Hurricanes Prospective Lineup**
Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Jiri Tlusty	Eric Staal	Alexander Semin
Jeff Skinner	Jordan Staal	Elias Lindholm
Nathan Gerbe	Manny Malhotra	Patrick Dwyer
Drayson Bowman	Riley Nash	Tuomo Ruutu