St. Louis Back Behind the Bench for the Canadiens in Denver | PREVIEW: MTL @ COL

Martin St. Louis will return behind the Canadiens bench for Tuesday's game in Denver. St. Louis left the team on March 15th to be with his family after his 16-year-old son Mason suffered an on-ice hockey accident.

In St. Louis' absence, Trevor Letowski earned his first win as an NHL head coach on Sunday night in Seattle with a 5-1 win over the Kraken.

Sam Montembeault (13-13-7 / 3.12 GAA / .903 SV% / 0 SO) is the confirmed starter for Montreal. Montembeault has won just once in his last 10 starts.

The Canadiens scored four times in the first period and cruised the rest of the way to snap a four-game losing streak..

Last game: MTL 5 vs SEA 1 | F

Ball Arena, Denver, CO. | March 26, 9:00 PM ET | TV: TSN2, RDS, ALT, ESPN

Alex Newhook on returning to Denver- "This one’s definitely been circled on the calendar ever since the summer. [I’m] looking forward to getting back in that building. It’s going to be a little weird being on the other side of it, but I have a lot of great memories there and it’s going to be a special one, for sure.”

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: 35 Sam Montembeault 
Alternate: 30 Cayden Primeau

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 Colorado 4-3 on January 15th.

The Avalanche are winners of the last nine consecutive games.

Colorado are 12-1-0 in their last 13 games at Ball Arena and boast the best home ice record in the NHL. 

Nathan MacKinnon currently is sporting a 34-game home point streak. MacKinnon has recorded 72 points in that span.

Justus Annunen (5-2-1 / 2.38 GAA / .926 SV% / 2 SO) is the confirmed starter for the Avalanche.

This will be a challenge for the Canadiens against the league's best home team. It will be up to Martin St. Louis to rally his troops to get a win.

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