DEVILS (39-34-3) at CANADIENS (45-21-10)
7 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN2, MSGSN
Devils projected lineup
Timo Meier — Nico Hischier — Dawson Mercer
Jesper Bratt — Jack Hughes — Connor Brown
Lenni Hameenaho — Cody Glass — Nick Bjugstad
Paul Cotter — Marc McLaughlin — Brian Halonen
Jonas Siegenthaler — Dougie Hamilton
Luke Hughes — Johnathan Kovacevic
Brenden Dillon — Simon Nemec
Jacob Markstrom
Jake Allen
Scratched: Dennis Cholowski, Evgenii Dadonov, Maksim Tsyplakov
Injured: Arseny Gritsyuk (upper body), Stefan Noesen (knee), Zack MacEwen (ACL), Brett Pesce (lower body)
Canadiens projected lineup
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Alex Newhook — Oliver Kapanen — Ivan Demidov
Zachary Bolduc — Jake Evans — Josh Anderson
Joe Veleno — Phillip Danault — Brendan Gallagher
Mike Matheson — Noah Dobson
Jayden Struble — Lane Hutson
Kaiden Guhle — Arber Xhekaj
Jacob Fowler
Jakub Dobes
Scratched: Samuel Montembeault, Adam Engstrom
Injured: Kirby Dach (upper body), Alexandre Texier (lower body), Alexander Carrier (upper body), Patrik Laine (lower body)
Status report
Neither team held a morning skate following Montreal’s 4-3 shootout win at New Jersey in the first of a back-to-back on Saturday. … Fowler did not dress for the game Saturday but is likely to start.