{"id":419084,"date":"2026-01-21T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/419084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T03:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:40:21","slug":"former-hab-drouin-thriving-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/419084\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hab Drouin Thriving In Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens (26-32-12) are set to face the Colorado Avalanche (46-20-5) at Ball Arena. The puck drop is scheduled for 9 pm ET.<\/p>\n

The Habs are coming off a win versus the Seattle Kraken that featured goals from Nick Suzuki, Alex Newhook, Mike Matheson, and Kaiden Guhle.<\/p>\n

But the story of the game was the play of young netminder Cayden Primeau. He made over 10 high-danger saves and was the main reason why the Habs managed to win the game despite being outshot and outchanced by a wide margin.<\/p>\n

It goes to show how important it is for goaltenders to have a stable situation. Ever since he\u2019s received more starts following the trade that sent Jake Allen to the New Jersey Devils, Primeau has looked much calmer every time he takes to the ice.<\/p>\n

Up front, Juraj Slafkovsky extended his point to seven games, yet another example of the youngest player in the lineup finding his ryhthm slowly, but surely.<\/p>\n

MUST READ: Montreal Canadiens Top Forwards Since All-Star Break<\/a><\/p>\n

As for the Avalanche, they\u2019re enjoying a great season from former Hab Jonathan Drouin. The winger had a three-point game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday, leading the charge in their impressive comeback win.<\/p>\n

He also has eight points in the last four games, which pushed his season totals to 14 goals and 32 assists in 68 games.<\/p>\n

Of course, we won\u2019t pretend Drouin was a dominant presence when he played for the Habs, but it\u2019s always good to see a former player find his rhythm after he struggled for a few seasons. In addition, Drouin was honest and open about how the situation impacted his mental health, which doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the recent on-ice results, but it is an important topic that we need to address in our modern society.<\/p>\n

For the view from the other side of the rink, make sure to visit our sister site Colorado Hockey Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Montreal Canadiens Injuries<\/p>\n

Carey Price (IR)
\nChris Wideman (IR)
\nKirby Dach (out indefinitely, ACL\/MCL)
\nChristian Dvorak (out indefinitely)
\nJoshua Roy (4-6 weeks)<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche Injuries<\/p>\n

Logan O\u2019Connor (out)
\nMaros Jedlicka (out)
\nOskar Olausson (out)
\nGabriel Landeskog (IR)
\nPavel Francouz (IR)<\/p>\n

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Montreal Canadiens Projected Lineup<\/p>\n

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Colorado Avalanche Projected Lineup<\/p>\n

Nichushkin \u2013 Mackinnon \u2013 Rantanen<\/p>\n

Lehkonen \u2013 Mittelstadt \u2013 Drouin<\/p>\n

Wood \u2013 Colton \u2013 Parise<\/p>\n

Duhaime \u2013 Trenin \u2013 Cogliano<\/p>\n

Defence<\/p>\n

Toews \u2013 Makar<\/p>\n

Girard \u2013 Manson<\/p>\n

Johnson \u2013 Walker<\/p>\n

Goalie<\/p>\n

Georgiev<\/p>\n

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How to Watch<\/p>\n

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\t\tMarc has been covering the Habs for over a decade. He previously worked for Journal Metro, The Athletic, The … More about Marc Dumont<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens (26-32-12) are set to face the Colorado Avalanche (46-20-5) at Ball Arena. The puck drop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,30296,32872,5,1037,21,4,6943,1835,52263],"class_list":["post-419084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-game-preview","tag-habs-lines","tag-hockey","tag-jonathan-drouin","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-projected-lineup","tag-starting-goalies","tag-starting-goaltenders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115931017013223783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419084","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=419084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}