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Game 43: Montreal Canadiens @ Utah Hockey Club

Start time: **9:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM PST**
In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French)
In the Utah region: Utah16
Streaming: ESPN+, RDS, TSN+

Already feeling the effects of a virus cascading through the lineup, the Canadiens are now dealing with a key injury. Rookie Emil Heineman was hit by a car in Utah yesterday, and ruled out for the next three to four weeks with an upper-body injury.

His departure will give the team something to rally around for a game that otherwise offered little motivation. Heineman is one of the team’s hardest workers and would have given them an edge with his goal-scoring talent from a bottom-six role. It will be up to the other skaters in the formation to put pucks behind Utah starter Karel Vejmelka and extend the woes of the newest franchise.

Cole Caufield just had a five-game goal-scoring streak snapped on Saturday — by a post in overtime that denied him his 24th goal and the Canadiens their first four-game winning streak. The Habs have been stringing together three wins followed by a loss for the past few weeks, so tonight could be the start of a new winning run for the team.

Montreal Canadiens projected lineup

Left Wing
Centre
Right Wing

#13 Cole Caufield
#14 Nick Suzuki
#20 Juraj Slafkovský

#35 Alex Newhook
#77 Kirby Dach
#92 Patrik Laine

#55 Michael Pezzetta
#71 Jake Evans
#40 Joel Armia

#17 Josh Anderson
#28 Christian Dvorak
#11 Brendan Gallagher

Left Defence
Right Defence

#48 Lane Hutson
#8 Mike Matheson

#21 Kaiden Guhle
#45 Alexandre Carrier

#72 Arber Xhekaj
#58 David Savard

Starter
Backup

#35 Samuel Montembeault
#75 Jakub Dobeṧ

Scratched: Jayden Struble
Injured: Emil Heineman

Utah HC projected lineup

Left Wing
Centre
Right Wing

Clayton Keller
Logan Cooley
Nick Schmaltz

Mattias Maccelli
Barrett Hayton
Josh Doan

Jack McBain
Nick Bjugstad
Lawson Crouse

Alex Kerfoot
Kevin Stenlund
Michael Carcone

Left Defence
Right Defence

Mikhail Sergachev
Olli Maatta

Ian Cole
Michael Kesselring

Juuso Valimaki
John Marino

Starter
Backup

Karel Vejmelka
Connor Ingram