Overview
- The Monday night game at Bell Centre will be available on RDS in the Canadiens’ region and streamed on Amazon Prime’s Prime Monday Night Hockey.
- Montreal turns to goaltender Jakub Dobes, while Vancouver starts Nikita Tolopilo with Thatcher Demko on injured reserve.
- The Canadiens enter at 25-14-6 after a 4-0 loss to Detroit but have gone 8-2-2 in their last 12, and their top-10 power play draws a Canucks penalty kill ranked near the bottom.
- Vancouver has dropped eight of its last nine and is 0-3 to start a six-game road trip, getting outscored 15-4 over those three defeats.
- The Canucks sit their leading goal scorer Kiefer Sherwood due to a minor injury, welcome back Conor Garland, and insert recalled defenseman Victor Mancini as Zeev Buium comes out.