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Game Thread: Tampa Bay Lightning (42-23-6) at Montreal Canadiens (27-37-6) – 21 Mar 2023 – 07:00PM EDT

  • March 21, 2023


#Tampa Bay [](/r/tampabaylightning) Lightning (42-23-6) at Montreal [](/r/habs) Canadiens (27-37-6)

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##Time

|PT|MT|CT|ET|AT|
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|04:00PM|05:00PM|06:00PM|07:00PM|08:00PM|##Watch, Listen and Talk:

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|TV|BSSUN|
|Listen|[TBL](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-000999114) – [MTL](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099918)|
|Other-Away|[Preview](http://Lightning.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021126) – [Boxscore](http://Lightning.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021126) – [Recap](http://Lightning.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021126)|
|Other-Home|[Preview](http://Canadiens.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021126) – [Boxscore](http://Canadiens.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021126) – [Recap](http://Canadiens.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021126)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2022021126)|

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  1. ###Projected Lineups

    ||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
    |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
    |[](/r/habs)|Rafael Harvey-Pinard|Nick Suzuki|Alex Belzile|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Brandon Hagel|Brayden Point|Nikita Kucherov|
    |[](/r/habs)|Denis Gurianov|Jonathan Drouin|Josh Anderson|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Alex Killorn|Anthony Cirelli|Tanner Jeannot|
    |[](/r/habs)|Mike Hoffman|Chris Tierney|Jesse Ylonen|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Ross Colton|Steven Stamkos|Nick Paul|
    |[](/r/habs)|Michael Pezzetta|Rem Pitlick|Anthony Richard|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Michael Eyssimont|Pierre-Édouard Bellemare|Patrick Maroon|

    ||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
    |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
    |[](/r/habs)|Michael Matheson|David Savard|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Victor Hedman|Zach Bogosian|
    |[](/r/habs)|Joel Edmundson|Justin Barron|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Ian Cole|Erik Cernak|
    |[](/r/habs)|Johnathan Kovacevic|Chris Wideman|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Mikhail Sergachev|Darren Raddysh|

    ||Goalies||Goalies|
    |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
    |[](/r/habs)|Jake Allen|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Andrei Vasilevskiy|
    |[](/r/habs)|Samuel Montembeault|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Brian Elliott|

    ###Injuries

    ||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
    |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Kaiden Guhle|18 Mar 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Guhle (lower body) is not at practice Saturday and will not play against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports reports.|unknown|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Christian Dvorak|09 Mar 2023|Knee|OUT|Dvorak underwent knee surgery Wednesday and will miss the remainder of the season.|01 Jul 2023|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Jordan Harris|09 Mar 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Harris (lower body) won’t make his return against the Florida Panthers on Thursday.|unknown|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Joel Armia|21 Feb 2023|Illness|DTD|Armia (illness) isn’t expected to play Thursday versus Florida.|unknown|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Kirby Dach|16 Feb 2023|Lower Body|OUT|Dach (lower body) remains out indefinitely.|23 Mar 2023|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Juraj Slafkovský||Lower Body|IR||18 Apr 2023|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Arber Xhekaj|18 Feb 2023|Shoulder|IR|Surgery|15 Sep 2023|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Cole Caufield||Shoulder|IR||15 Sep 2023|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Jake Evans||Lower Body|IR||unknown|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Sean Monahan|25 Feb 2023|Lower Body|IR-LT|Monahan (lower body) will not travel with the Montreal Canadiens on their upcoming road trip, Eric Engels of Sportsnet.ca reports.|unknown|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Brendan Gallagher|09 Mar 2023|Lower Body|IR|Gallagher (lower body) is expected to miss 3-4 more weeks.|30 Mar 2023|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Paul Byron||Hip|IR-LT|Not Specified|unknown|
    |[MTL](/r/habs)|Carey Price||Knee|IR-LT||01 Jul 2023|
    |–|–|–|–|–|
    |[TBL](/r/tampabaylightning)|None|

    ###Team Stats

    |Team|GP|W|L|OT|P|P%|G/G|GA/G|PP%|PK%|S/G|SA/G|FO%|
    |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
    |[Canadiens](/r/habs)|70|27|37|6|60|42.8|2.77142|3.71428|16.6|72.2|27.42857|34.1|48.8|
    |[Lightning](/r/tampabaylightning)|71|42|23|6|90|63.3|3.4507|3.04225|25.3|79.6|32.09859|31.23943|51.8|

    ###Team Leaders

    |Stat||Player|Value||Player|Value|
    |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
    |G|[](/r/habs)|Cole Caufield|26|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Brayden Point|43|
    |A|[](/r/habs)|Nick Suzuki|32|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Nikita Kucherov|72|
    |P|[](/r/habs)|Nick Suzuki|53|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Nikita Kucherov|100|
    |+/-|[](/r/habs)|Rafael Harvey-Pinard|4|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Brandon Hagel|23|
    |PIM|[](/r/habs)|Arber Xhekaj|101|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Pat Maroon|107|
    |TOI|[](/r/habs)|Mike Matheson|24:06|[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Mikhail Sergachev|24:00|

    ### Goalie Breakdown

    ||Name|GP|GS|W|L|OT|SO|GAA|SV%|
    |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
    |[](/r/habs)|Jake Allen|40|39|14|23|3|1|3.55|0.89227|
    |[](/r/habs)|Sam Montembeault|32|31|13|14|3|0|3.35|0.90388|
    |–|–|–|–|–|–|–|–|–|–|
    |[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Andrei Vasilevskiy|53|53|31|18|4|2|2.69|0.91385|
    |[](/r/tampabaylightning)|Brian Elliott|18|18|11|5|2|1|3.14|0.89483|

  3. I can say with absolute confidence that Tampa is going to walk all over us at will tonight. Go Habs.

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