Game Thread: Montreal Canadiens (26-35-6) at Pittsburgh Penguins (34-22-10) – 14 Mar 2023 – 07:00PM EDT

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1. HockeyMod 2 years ago

   ###Projected Lineups

   ||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
   |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Jake Guentzel|Sidney Crosby|Bryan Rust|[](/r/habs)|Rafael Harvey-Pinard|Nick Suzuki|Josh Anderson|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Jason Zucker|Evgeni Malkin|Alex Nylander|[](/r/habs)|Mike Hoffman|Jonathan Drouin|Denis Gurianov|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Drew O’Connor|Mikael Granlund|Rickard Rakell|[](/r/habs)|Anthony Richard|Chris Tierney|Jesse Ylonen|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Danton Heinen|Jeff Carter|Josh Archibald|[](/r/habs)|Michael Pezzetta|Alex Belzile|Rem Pitlick|

   ||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
   |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Marcus Pettersson|Kris Letang|[](/r/habs)|Michael Matheson|Johnathan Kovacevic|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Brian Dumoulin|Jeff Petry|[](/r/habs)|Joel Edmundson|Chris Wideman|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Dmitry Kulikov|Jan Rutta|[](/r/habs)|Kaiden Guhle|David Savard|

   ||Goalies||Goalies|
   |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Tristan Jarry|[](/r/habs)|Samuel Montembeault|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Casey DeSmith|[](/r/habs)|Jake Allen|

   ###Injuries

   ||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
   |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
   |[PIT](/r/penguins)|Dmitry Kulikov|12 Mar 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Kulikov left Sunday’s game against the New York Rangers with a lower-body injury, Rob Rossi of The Athletic reports.|unknown|
   |[PIT](/r/penguins)|Nick Bonino|11 Mar 2023|Abdomen|OUT|Bonino (kidney laceration) is out week-to-week, according to coach Mike Sullivan, Matt Vensel of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.|30 Mar 2023|
   |[PIT](/r/penguins)|Samuel Poulin||Not Injury Related|OUT||01 Apr 2023|
   |[PIT](/r/penguins)|Ryan Poehling|17 Feb 2023|Upper Body|IR-LT|Poehling (upper body) was placed on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Feb. 14 on Tuesday.|unknown|
   |–|–|–|–|–|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Rem Pitlick|13 Mar 2023|Undisclosed|DTD|Pitlick (undisclosed) was taken to the hospital after being injured Monday against the Colorado Avalanche but is expected to travel with the team to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Arpon Basu of The Athletic reports.|unknown|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Christian Dvorak|09 Mar 2023|Lower Body|OUT|Dvorak (lower body) did not participate in Monday’s game-day skate, indicating he won’t be in action versus Colorado.|16 Mar 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Jordan Harris|09 Mar 2023|Lower Body|OUT|Harris (lower body) will not play Monday against the Colorado Avalanche, Arpon Basu of The Athletic reports.|unknown|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Justin Barron|02 Mar 2023|Upper Body|OUT|Barron (upper body) won’t play Monday against the Colorado Avalanche, Arpon Basu of The Athletic reports.|unknown|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Joel Armia|21 Feb 2023|Illness|OUT|Armia (illness) wasn’t on the ice for Monday’s game-day skate and is expected to remain unavailable versus Colorado.|16 Mar 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Kirby Dach|16 Feb 2023|Lower Body|OUT|Dach (lower body) remains out indefinitely.|23 Mar 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Juraj Slafkovský||Lower Body|IR||18 Apr 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Arber Xhekaj|18 Feb 2023|Shoulder|IR|Surgery|15 Sep 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Cole Caufield||Shoulder|IR||15 Sep 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Jake Evans||Lower Body|IR||16 Mar 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Sean Monahan|25 Feb 2023|Lower Body|IR-LT|Monahan (lower body) will not travel with the Montreal Canadiens on their upcoming road trip, Eric Engels of Sportsnet.ca reports.|21 Mar 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Brendan Gallagher|09 Mar 2023|Lower Body|IR|Gallagher (lower body) is expected to miss 3-4 more weeks.|30 Mar 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Paul Byron||Hip|IR-LT|Not Specified|21 Mar 2023|
   |[MTL](/r/habs)|Carey Price||Knee|IR-LT||01 Jul 2023|

   ###Team Stats

   |Team|GP|W|L|OT|P|P%|G/G|GA/G|PP%|PK%|S/G|SA/G|FO%|
   |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
   |[Penguins](/r/penguins)|66|34|22|10|78|59.0|3.27272|3.16666|21.3|79.7|33.89393|33.65151|52.0|
   |[Canadiens](/r/habs)|67|26|35|6|58|43.2|2.68656|3.61194|16.0|72.8|27.56716|33.74626|49.3|

   ###Team Leaders

   |Stat||Player|Value||Player|Value|
   |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
   |G|[](/r/penguins)|Sidney Crosby|29|[](/r/habs)|Cole Caufield|26|
   |A|[](/r/penguins)|Sidney Crosby|51|[](/r/habs)|Nick Suzuki|30|
   |P|[](/r/penguins)|Sidney Crosby|80|[](/r/habs)|Nick Suzuki|51|
   |+/-|[](/r/penguins)|Pierre-Olivier Joseph|11|[](/r/habs)|Mike Matheson|6|
   |PIM|[](/r/penguins)|Marcus Pettersson|54|[](/r/habs)|Arber Xhekaj|101|
   |TOI|[](/r/penguins)|Kris Letang|24:14|[](/r/habs)|Mike Matheson|24:12|

   ### Goalie Breakdown

   ||Name|GP|GS|W|L|OT|SO|GAA|SV%|
   |:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Tristan Jarry|35|35|20|7|6|1|2.86|0.91256|
   |[](/r/penguins)|Casey DeSmith|32|29|13|13|4|0|3.13|0.90772|
   |–|–|–|–|–|–|–|–|–|–|
   |[](/r/habs)|Jake Allen|39|39|14|22|3|1|3.43|0.89548|
   |[](/r/habs)|Sam Montembeault|29|28|12|13|3|0|3.28|0.90461|

2. MasterMatt25 2 years ago

   Pittsburgh is so inconsistent I have no idea how this game will go

3. mikegimik 2 years ago

   Who is taking Rem’s spot if he can’t go?

4. jadenspan 2 years ago

   We have to lose this one to dampen floridas hopes and keep us in the running for bottom 4

5. televisionceo 2 years ago

   We lost a good fan yesterday. My uncle. Hockey will have a different feels for a while…

6. indiecore 2 years ago

   Just hope they can keep it competitive. They looked _terrible_ even by our standards this season last night.