Sep 29, 2017
Ice Chips: Galchenyuk moved to third line
Keep updated on all the injury news and roster moves from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.
TSN.ca Staff
Keep updated on all the injury news and roster moves from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.
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
41
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