{"id":255944,"date":"2025-10-20T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/255944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:03:12","slug":"martin-st-louis-confirms-laines-status-and-reveals-canadiens-lineup-for-sabres-showdown-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/255944\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin St-Louis Confirms Laine&#8217;s Status and Reveals Canadiens Lineup for Sabres Showdown Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMartin St-Louis Confirms Laine&#8217;s Status and Reveals Canadiens Lineup for Sabres Showdown Tonight&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/606785.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oct 16, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens right wing Patrik Laine (92) defends the puck against Nashville Predators right wing Luke Evangelista (77) during the first period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\" title=\"Oct 16, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens right wing Patrik Laine (92) defends the puck against Nashville Predators right wing Luke Evangelista (77) during the first period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tLet us recall, of course, that forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Kirby-Dach-52327\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Kirby Dach profile and hockey stats\">Kirby Dach<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Patrik-Laine-47809\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Patrik Laine profile and hockey stats\">Patrik Laine<\/a> (injured) missed Saturday night&#8217;s game against the New York Rangers at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n<p>We were therefore eager to see what Laine&#8217;s and Dach&#8217;s statuses would be today, and now we already have our confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed: Patrik Laine and Kirby Dach will miss tonight&#8217;s game against the Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martin St. Louis sticking with the same forward lines for the Habs tonight vs. Sabres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stu Cowan<\/p>\n<p>This confirms that Patrik Laine and Kirby Dach will be absent tonight, which is obviously disappointing and concerning:<\/p>\n<p>The lineup for tonight will therefore be as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Caufield &#8211; Suzuki &#8211; Slafkovsky<br \/>Kapanen &#8211; Newhook &#8211; Demidov<br \/>Bolduc &#8211; Veleno &#8211; Beck<br \/>Anderson &#8211; Evans &#8211; Gallagher<br \/>Matheson &#8211; Dobson<br \/>Struble &#8211; Hutson<br \/>Xhekaj &#8211; Carrier<br \/>Dobes<\/p>\n<p>Laine, 27 years old, who earns $8.7 million per year for one more season, is indeed experiencing a more disappointing start to the season, but he clearly has the talent to quickly change the narrative about him.<\/p>\n<p>In five games this season, he has 0 goals and 1 assist, with a minus-3 rating.<\/p>\n<p>The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. live from the Bell Centre. The Canadiens hold a 4-2 record, while the Sabres sit at 2-3.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Habs Fanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>1 HOUR AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0143 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis Confirms Laine&#8217;s Status and Reveals Canadiens Lineup for Sabres Showdown Tonight<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe Patrik Laine will play more than 60 games for the Canadiens this season?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHABSFANATICS.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Martin St-Louis Confirms Laine&#8217;s Status and Reveals Canadiens Lineup for Sabres Showdown Tonight&#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4687,2418,412,21,40,4,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-255944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kirby-dach","10":"tag-lineup","11":"tag-martin-st-louis","12":"tag-montreal-canadiens","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-patrik-laine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115407815409038152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}