Canadiens Spend Sunday Night in Seattle | PREVIEW: MTL @ SEA

Brendan Gallagher did not participate in Saturday’s practice taking a therapy day.

Cayden Primeau (6-7-2 / 2.97 GAA / .905 SV% / 2 SO) is the confirmed starter for Montreal. 

The Canadiens could not generate offense at even strength or on the power play. Juraj Slafkovsky scored the only Canadiens goal.

Last game: MTL 1 vs VAN 4 | F

CP Arena, Seattle, WA. | March 24, 9:00 PM ET | TV: TSN2, RDS, ROOT-NW, ESPN

David Savard - "We have to try to find the back of the net a little more. We don’t give ourselves many chances when we have one or two, it puts a lot of pressure on our goalkeepers, but we are in every match and we have to continue to compete against the best teams."

Forwards
22 Cole Caufield - 14 Nick Suzuki - 20 Juraj Slafkovsky
11 Brendan Gallagher - 15 Alex Newhook - 40 Joel Armia
17 Josh Anderson - 71 Jake Evans - 56 Jesse Ylonen
55 Michael Pezzetta - 36 Colin White - 49 Rafael Harvey-Pinard

Defensemen
8 Mike Matheson - 21 Kaiden Guhle
72 Arber Xhekaj - 58 David Savard
47 Jayden Struble - 54 Jordan Harris

Goaltenders
Starter: 30 Cayden Primeau
Alternate: 35 Sam Montembeault 

Out of the lineup
Scratches: Tanner Pearson, Johnathan Kovacevic
Injuries: Carey Price (knee), Chris Wideman (back), Kirby Dach (knee), Christian Dvorak (upper body), Joshua Roy (hand)

This is the second and final meeting of the season for the two teams. Montreal beat Seattle 4-2 on December 4th.

The Kraken have a record of 3-2-0 in their last five games against the Canadiens.

Yanni Gourde has recorded seven points in his last six games against Montreal.

Philipp Grubauer (10-12-2 / 2.84 GAA / .901 SV% / 1 SO) is the confirmed starter for the Oilers.

Tanner Pearson has four points in five career games against the Kraken. Seattle has lost their last seven games.

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