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Montreal Canadiens

The Canadiens will have a lot of reserves in the lineup Friday against the Florida Panthers for their second-last preseason game.

Here are the Habs' lines for tonight's game, per TSN Canadiens Reporter John Lu

Hudon - Plekanec - Lehkonen

Byron - Danault - Shaw

Galchenyuk - Holland - Scherbak

Martinsen - Froese - McCarron

 

Alzner - Petry

Mete - Benn

Davidson - Jerabek

 

Lindgren

Fucale

Head coach Claude Julien has Alex Galchenyuk on third line, skating with two AHL players in Peter Holland and Nikita Scherbak. And Charlie Lindgren is fully healed from a lower body injury he incurred earlier this week and might play the whole game Friday. Julien says that when he has to make final roster decisions on Sunday, rookies Mete and Hudon will be in the mix. 


Detroit Red Wings

Henrik Zetterberg, who has been dealing with a neck injury, will make his preseason debut for the Detroit Red Wings Friday night versus the Toronto Maple Leafs, according to Dana Wakiji of DetroitRedWings.com

Here are the Red Wings' lines for the game, per Wakiji:

Tatar-Zetterberg-Nyquist

Mantha-Larkin-Frk

Helm-Nielsen-Sheahan

Booth-Street-Glendening

 

Ericsson-Green

Dekeyser-Daley

Ouellet-Hicketts

 

Howard

McCollum

 


Toronto Maple Leafs

The Maple Leafs will bring an NHL-heavy group to Detroit for Friday's game.  TSN Maple Leafs reporter Kristen Shilton reports that Frederik Andersen will play the whole game in net, and Curtis McEhinney will do the same on Saturday when the two teams square off again in Toronto.

Here are the Leafs' lines for Friday night, per Shilton.

Hyman-Matthews-Nylander

JvR-Bozak-Marner

Marleau-Kadri-Komarov

Martin-Moore-Brown

 

Rielly-Hainsey

Gardiner-Zaitsev

Marincin-Holl

Borgman-Rosen


Washington Capitals

The Capitals will also have a reserve-heavy lineup for their game against the Carolina Hurricanes Friday. Four of the team's veteran forwards won't play, including Alex Ovechkin.

These are the Capitals' lines versus the Hurricanes, per Tom Gulitti of NHL.com:

Burakovsky-Backstrom-Chiasson

Vrana-Eller-Wilson

Graovac-Beagle-DSP

Walker-Stephenson-Connolly

 

Orlov-Niskanen

Ness-Chorney Djoos-Bowey

Extra: Orpik-Carlson

 

Grubauer

Holtby

 

Power play 1: Chiasson, Backstrom, Stephenson, Niskanen, Orlov.

Power play 2: Burakovsky, Vrana, Connolly, Bowey, Djoos.


Carolina Hurricanes

The Hurricanes game versus the Capitals will be their last tuneup before the start of the regular season. Here Carolina's lines for Friday, per Michael Smith of CarolinaHurricanes.com:

Aho-Staal-Lindholm

Kuokkanen-Rask-Williams

Skinner-Ryan-Necas

Nordstrom-Kruger-McGinn

 

Slavin-Faulk

Hanifin-Pesce

Fleury-van Riemsdyk


Buffalo Sabres

Here are the Sabres' lines at morning skate ahead of their final preseason game versus the New York Islanders, as per Jourdon LaBarber of BuffaloSabres.com:

Kane-Eichel-Pominville

Girgensons-O'Reilly-Okposo

Moulson-Reinhart-Griffith

Larsson-Josefson-Nolan

Pouliot-Deslauriers-Bailey

 

Antipin-Risto

Beaulieu-Bogosian

Gorges-Falk

Goloubef-Fedun

Scandella-Tennyson


New York Islanders

Islanders lines for Friday, per Arthur Staple of Newsday Sports:

27-91-7

16-13-12

72-53-66

86-24-15

2-42

44-4

14-6

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