Florida Panthers (37-37-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Montreal Canadiens (45-22-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Montreal, Quebec; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Florida Panthers visit the Montreal Canadiens looking to end a five-game road slide.<\/p>\n
Montreal has a 45-22-10 record overall and a 14-9-1 record in Atlantic Division games. The Canadiens have gone 18-6-5 in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
Florida has a 37-37-3 record overall and an 11-10-1 record in Atlantic Division play. The Panthers have a 15-6-2 record in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season. The Canadiens won the previous matchup 6-2. Alexandre Texier scored three goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Lane Hutson has 12 goals and 62 assists for the Canadiens. Cole Caufield has nine goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Sam Reinhart has 29 goals and 32 assists for the Panthers. Carter Verhaeghe has scored five goals and added one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Canadiens: 8-2-0, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.1 assists, 4.5 penalties and 11.1 penalty minutes while giving up 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Panthers: 4-6-0, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.2 assists, 3.6 penalties and 9.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Canadiens: Alexandre Carrier: out (upper body), Alexandre Texier: day to day (lower body), Patrik Laine: out (abdomen), Kirby Dach: out (upper body).<\/p>\n
Panthers: Brad Marchand: out (lower body), Evan Rodrigues: out for season (finger), Sam Reinhart: out for season (foot), Niko Mikkola: out for season (knee), Anton Lundell: out for season (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out for season (foot), Aaron Ekblad: out for season (finger), Jonah Gadjovich: out for season (upper body), Aleksander Barkov: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers (37-37-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Montreal Canadiens (45-22-10, in the Atlantic Division) Montreal, Quebec; Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[62007,301,265,5,264,21,5147,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-543645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-62007","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-canadiens","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-montreal","13":"tag-montreal-canadiens","14":"tag-montrealcanadiens","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116357526498353434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543645","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=543645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}