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Game Thread: Montreal Canadiens vs Florida Panthers

Game time is 7:30PM EST, so here are your projected lineups:

Montreal Canadiens Prospective Lineup
Left Wing
Center
Right Wing
Max Pacioretty David Desharnais Erik Cole
Rene Bourque Tomas Plekanec Brian Gionta
Brandon Prust Alex Galchenyuk Brendan Gallagher
Travis Moen Ryan White Colby Armstrong

Left Defense
Right Defense
Andrei Markov Alexei Emelin
Tomas Kaberle Josh Gorges
Francis Bouillon Raphael Diaz

Goaltenders
Carey Price
Peter Budaj

Scratches for tonight include Lars Eller, Michael Blunden, and Yannick Weber.

Injuries: Petteri Nokelainen

Contract disputes: P.K. Subban

As for Florida:

Florida Panthers Prospective Lineup
Left Wing
Center
Right Wing
Tomas Fleischmann Stephen Weiss Scottie Upshall
Jonathan Huberdeau Peter Mueller Alex Kovalev
Mike Santorelli Shawn Matthias Tomas Kopecky
Jack Skille Jerred Smithson George Parros

Left Defense
Right Defense
Brian Campbell Mike Weaver
Filip Kuba Dmitry Kulikov
Keaton Ellerby Ed Jovanovski

Goaltenders
Scott Clemmensen
Jose Theodore

Kris Versteeg is a notable absence from the Panthers, he’s on the injured reserve.

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We’re going to try a new thing today that should cut down on load times for everyone, and that is splitting up the game thread by period.

There will be less scrolling and less lag time if you need to refresh. This is the 1st period thread, the second period thread will be posted during the intermission and I’ll link it in the comments.

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