Bienvenue Montreal!

The Blue Jackets return north of the border to faceoff with Montreal in the first game of the week.

Columbus gets their first road game against the east this month, and this is the final meeting of the season between the two clubs. This game is meant to avoid the season sweep.

Montreal had a busy deadline. They moved on from Nathan Legare, Jan Mysak, Sean Monahan, and Jake Allen. They got back A first, two 3rds, Jacob Perrault, and Arnaud Durandeau. They also got Colin White off waivers from Pittsburgh.

They are continuing to slip and fall toward the lottery. A loss will move
Columbus will get them ahead of Ottawa, but the Senators have games in hand. A Columbus win gets them two points behind Montreal.

Columbus has shifted the deck chairs on the Titanic for the bottom six forwards lineups. With Justin Danforth out, Carson Meyer has come up as the spare forward. Captain Brendan Gaunce is the spare forward.

Expect Elvis v Primeau.

Projected Lineups

Montreal Canadiens

Cole Caufield -- Nick Suzuki -- Juraj Slafkovsky
Joshua Roy -- Alex Newhook -- Joel Armia
Josh Anderson -- Jake Evans -- Brendan Gallagher
Michael Pezzetta -- Rafael Harvey-Pinard -- Tanner Pearson

Mike Matheson -- Kaiden Guhle
Arber Xhekaj -- David Savard
Jayden Struble - Johnathan Kovacevic

Cayden Primeau
Sam Montembeault

Scratched: Jesse Ylonen, Jordan Harris

Injured: Colin White (upper body)

Columbus Blue Jackets

Johnny Gaudreau -- Boone Jenner -- Yegor Chinakhov
Trey Fix-Wolansky -- Dmitri Voronkov -- Kirill Marchenko
Alexandre Texier -- Cole Sillinger -- Alex Nylander
Carson Meyer -- Sean Kuraly -- Mathieu Olivier

Zach Werenski -- Adam Boqvist
Ivan Provorov -- Damon Severson
Jake Bean -- Erik Gudbranson

Elvis Merzlikins
Daniil Tarasov

Scratched: Brendan Gaunce

Injured: Adam Fantilli (calf), Patrik Laine (upper body), Justin Danforth (concussion)

Players to Watch

Montreal — Juraj Slafkovsky — many think he’s a first overall bust, but 33 points in 64 games is not a bad output for the season.

Columbus — Carson Meyer — regular season debut

Predicted Final Score

MTL - 3

CBJ - 4

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