Sep 27, 2017
Ice Chips: Shaw, Drouin expected to return
Montreal Canadiens forwards Andrew Shaw and Jonathan Drouin both skated this morning and look to be on track to being in the lineup Wednesday night versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. Shaw had been sidelined with a neck injury, while Drouin had been dealing with an upper-body injury.
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Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens forwards Andrew Shaw and Jonathan Drouin both skated this morning and look to be on track to being in the lineup Wednesday night versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. Shaw had been sidelined with a neck injury, while Drouin had been dealing with an upper-body injury.
These were the Canadiens' lines at today's morning skate, per Lu:
Pacioretty-Drouin-Gallagher
Galchenyuk-McCarron-Shaw
Terry-De La Rose-Mitchell
Carr-Holland-Froese
Mete-Weber
Streit-Gelinas
Davidson-Morrow
Price
Fucale
Habs' project power play:
Gallagher
Drouin - Galchenyuk - Pacioretty
Weber
Toronto Maple Leafs
Maple Leafs' projected lines against the Canadiens, per TSN Reporter Mark Masters :
Leivo-Aaltonen-Brown
Rychel-Moore-Kapanen
Johnsson-Fehr-Soshnikov
Greening-Smith-Grundstrom
Rosen-Dermott
Borgman-Carrick
Marincin-Holl
McElhinney, Sparks
McElhinney will play the entire game, per Masters.
Projected power-play line:
Rosen
Brown-Johnsson-Leivo
Greening
Borgman
Carrick-Grundstrom-Kapanen
Rychel
Ottawa Senators
These were the Senators' lines at their morning skate today as they prepare for their game against the Winnipeg Jets, per TSN Reporter Brent Wallace:
Smith-Turris-Hoffman
Ryan-Pageau-Stone
Dzingel-Brown-Burrows
Formenton-Thompson-Pyatt
Oduya-Ceci
Phaneuf-Chabot
Boro-Claesson (although they could flip sides)
Head coach Guy Boucher says Craig Anderson most likely will play the full game in net and Andrew Hammond will be the back up.
Injured players Erik Karlsson and Derick Brassard, as well as Max McCormick, were all on the ice this morning.
Karlsson told reporters on Wednesday that doctors removed half of the ankle bone in his foot while in surgery to repair tendons in his foot, according to TSN1200 play-by-play man Dean Brown.
The defenceman had the surgery in June and finally laced up his skates for the first time last week.
Sens PP:
Dzingel
Turris-Burrows-Phaneuf-Karlsson alternated with Phaneuf on the point.
Hoffman
Ryan
Brown-Stone-Chabot
Claesson
Winnipeg Jets
Jets' projected lines vs. the Senators, per Brian Munz:
Perreault-Little-Ehlers
Connor-Petan-Dano
Matthias-Copp-Tanev
Lemieux-Hendricks-Lipon
Morrissey-Byfuglien
Poolman-Myers
Kulikov-Trouba
Hellebuyck
Comrie
Edmonton Oilers
Oilers projected lines against the Carolina Hurricanes tonight, per TSN reporter Ryan Rishaug:
Maroon-McDavid-Yamo
Lucic-Leon-Puljujarvi
Kelly-Malone-Pakarinen
Khaira-Strome-Kassian.
Auvitu-Larsen
Nurse-Gryba
Russell-Benning
Washington Capitals
It appears that Evgeny Kuznetsov will in fact slot in on the Capitals' power play.
These are the team's lines for its game versus the New Jersey Devils tonight:
Ovechkin-Kuznesov-Connolly
Burakovsky-Backstrom-Oshie
Vrana-Eller-Boyd
Graovac-Beagle-Peluso
Orlov-Niskanen
Ness-Carlson
Orpik-Bowey
Holtby
Grbauer
New Jersey Devils
Projected lines for the Devils tonight, per Amanda Stein of newjerseydevils.com:
Hall-Zacha-Stafford
Johansson-Hischier-Henrique
Quenneville-Coleman-Noesen
Wood-Rooney-Hayes
Moore-Severson
Butcher-Loov
Mueller-Santini/Strait
Schneider/Kinkaid
Buffalo Sabres
Sabres lines at morning skate ahead of their game versus the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight, per Jourdon LaBarber of Sabres.com:
Kane-Eichel-Pominville
Girgensons-ROR-Okposo
Pouliot-Reinhart-Bailey
Moulson-Griffith-Baptiste
Deslauriers-Josefson-Larsson
Scandella-Risto
Beaulieu-Bogosian
Antipin-Fedun
Gorges-Tennyson
Falk-Goloubef
Pittsburgh Penguins
Lines at morning skate, per Penguins radio broadcast man Josh Getzoff:
Guentzel-Crosby-Sheary
Hagelin-Malkin-Kessel
Kuhnhackl-McKegg-Rust
SWilson-Rowney-Reaves
Dumoulin-Letang
Cole-Hunwick
Maatta-Schultz
Ruhwedel-Pouliot