CANADIENS (40-21-10) at PREDATORS (34-29-9)

7 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, SNE, CITY, TVAS

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 — Alexandre Carrier

Jakub Dobes

Jacob Fowler

Scratched: Arber Xhekaj, Samuel Montembeault

Injured: Kirby Dach (upper body), Patrik Laine (lower body), Alexandre Texier (lower body)

Predators projected lineup

Steven Stamkos — Ryan O’Reilly — Luke Evangelista

Filip Forsberg — Matthew Wood — Jonathan Marchessault

Zachary L’Heureux — Erik Haula — Tyson Jost

Reid Schaefer — Fedor Svechkov — Ozzy Wiesblatt

Brady Skjei — Roman Josi

Nicolas Hague — Nick Perbix

Adam Wilsby — Ryan Ufko

Juuse Saros

Justus Annunen

Scratched: Joakim Kemell, Justin Barron

Injured: None

Status report

Texier remains day to day. … Saros was the first goaltender off the ice at the morning skate and is expected to start.