GAME DAY | Canadiens – Jets: Preview, Lines, Goalies, TV, Fantasy

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Pre-game Notes and Quotes
  • “We played a pretty great team [on Thursday] and we showed up and competed and made play,” said Alex Galchenyuk. “I think the penalties killed the momentum a little bit. … We have a game [on Saturday] and we have to bounce back.”
  • “We have a great group here in this room and we’re working for it,” said Jets forward Drew Stafford. “It just hasn’t gone our way.”
  • Alex Galchenyuk will centre Max Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher.
  • “One thing with Alex is that he is progressing really well,” said coach Michel Therrien. “He is playing with confidence. As a winger, he has been productive. We want to make sure that … he is capable of maintaining that. If he is capable of maintaining the quality of play that he has given us lately, that’s great news.”
  • Galchenyuk put it quite simply, “I’ve played wing. I’ve played center. I’ve just got to go out there and do my job.”
Matchup 
MTS Center, Winnipeg, MB. | March 4, 7:00 PM ET | TV: TVAS, SN, NHL.TV

2015-16 statistics
JETS CANADIENS
63 (27th) Points (League rank) 65 (22nd)
26-32-5 Record 30-29-6
13-15-2 Home 17-11-3
13-17-3 Road 13-18-3
2-6-2 Last 10 3-5-2
2.57 G/G 2.65
2.97 GA/G 2.74
16.3 PP% 17.4
77.3 PK% 84.2
 51.5  CF%*  52.4
53.4 CF60*  55.6
50.3 CA60* 50.5
*Advanced statistics: Score adjusted, even strength. CF%: Corsi for percentage of total  CF60: Corsi For/60 minutes  CA60: Corsi Against/60 minutes (via War on Ice)
Projected forward lines, defense pairings and goaltenders
Forwards
Ehlers – Scheifele – Wheeler
Perreault – Burmistrov – Stafford
Dano – Lowry – Armia
Thorburn – Copp – Peluso
 Pacioretty – Galchenyuk – Gallagher
Eller – Plekanec – Andrighetto
Matteau – McCarron – Byron
De la Rose – Danault – Mitchell
Expected scratches: Lessio, Brown
Defensemen
Enstrom – Byfuglien
Trouba – Myers
Chariot – Postma
 Markov – Subban
Bartley/Emelin – Pateryn
Ellis – Barberio
Expected scratches: Bartley
Goalies
Ondrej Pavelec (Confirmed) Mike Condon  (Confirmed)
2015-’16 regular season:
Record: 6-9-2
GAA: 2.86
Sv%: .900
SO: 0
Alternate: Michael Hutchinson		 2015-’16 regular season:
Record: 16-18-6
GAA: 2.57
Sv%: .905
SO: 0
Alternate: Ben Scrivens
Fantasy Outlook
  • Top scorers for the Canadiens on the road this season are:
  1. Andrei Markov (with 26 points in 34 games)
  2. Max Pacioretty (with 25 points in 34 games)
  3. P. K. Subban (with 25 points in 34 games)

* – Currently injured

Player stats from War-on-Ice, NHL.com and Yahoo Sports.
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