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Montreal Canadiens (45-27-7) at Chicago Blackhawks (45-19-15) 7:30 Eastern RDS, TSN, CSN-CH
THE BUZZ
An Original Six Matchup of two teams both injured and surging before the playoffs. Over their last ten games, the Canadiens are 8-2-0, Chicago 6-4-0, but winners of their last three.
The Canadiens come in to the UC tonight minus their top two defensemen (Andrei Markov and Alexei Emelin). The Hawks play without star forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. Although defenseman Johnny Oduya is supposed to return to the ice tonight.
PROJECTED LINEUPS
Montreal
Pacioretty Desharnais Vanek Galchenyuk Plekanec Gallagher Bourque Eller Gionta Bournival White Briere
Gorges Subban Tinordi Weaver Bouillon Beaulieu
Budaj
Chicago
Sharp Shaw Hossa Versteeg Handzus Saad Bickell Smith Morin Bollig Kruger Nordstrom
Keith Seabrook Oduya Hjalmarsson Leddy Rozsival
Crawford
All for now,
JJ