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

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GAME DAY | Red Wings – Canadiens: Preview, Lines, Goalies, TV, Fantasy
Pre-game Notes and Quotes
  • Captain Max Pacioretty on Mike Condon being named as the Canadiens’ Masterton Memorial Trophy candidate: “You don’t replace Carey Price, it’s impossible. All we can do is make sure we show up prepared to play our best and work our hardest. I think that’s why guys have respected Condo right from the start — they’d see him at the rink on off-days working hard, or in the trainer’s room making sure he was as good as he could be out there. Guys who have that kind of preparation get a lot of respect.”
  • Phillip Danault: “Are we excited for the season to end? That kind of sentence needs to be deleted from our vocabulary. This is our sport. In hockey it is normal to experience ups and downs. Our only focus should be on getting right back on the right track.”
  • Max Pacioretty remains the only player in the NHL to register a shot in every game his team has played in this season.
  • P. K. Subban and Carey Price are not predicted to make their return tonight, but both do plan on returning before the season is over
  • The schedule for the Canadiens is simple over the next two weeks as they play every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until the season wraps up.
  • While the Canadiens have a 27-18-3 record versus teams in the Eastern Conference this season, the Red Wings have a 24-17-8 record against teams from the East.
  • So far this season, the Canadiens have a 15-9-1 record versus teams in the Atlantic division, while the Red Wings have a 16-8-3 record versus teams coming from the Atlantic.
  • The Canadiens have maintained their place in the standings for the goals against category, as they are currently in 24th in the league in goals against, with 221 in 76 games. The Red Wings have allowed 208 goals in 76 games and find themselves in 19th in the league.
  • The Canadiens have maintained their place in the standings for the goals scored category as they are currently in 18th place in the NHL, with 201 over their first 76 games. The Red Wings are 23rd in this category with 195 goals scored in their first 76 games.
Matchup 
Bell Centre, Montreal, QC. | March 29, 7:30 PM ET | TV: S-D, RDS, SNE

2015-16 statistics

RED WINGS CANADIENS
87 (9th) Points (Conference rank) 74 (13th)
38-27-11 Record 34-36-6
20-13-6 Home 20-15-3
18-14-5 Road 14-21-3
6-4-0 Last 10 4-6-0
2.57 G/G 2.64
2.74 GA/G 2.91
18.0 PP% 16.2
80.8 PK% 83.0
 52.1  CF%*  51.4
54.2 CF60*  54.8
49.8 CA60* 51.9
*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
Abdelkader – Zetterberg – Larkin
Tatar – Datsyuk – Mantha
Nyquist – Sheahan – Athanasiou
Helm – Glendening – Richards
Pacioretty – Galchenyuk – Byron
Eller – Plekanec – Mitchell
Danault – Desharnais – Andrighetto
De la Rose – McCarron – Brown
Expected scratches: Gallagher, Lessio, Matteau
Defensemen
DeKeyser – Quincey
Kronwall – Ericsson
Smith – Green
Markov – Emelin
Beaulieu – Pateryn
Hanley – Dietz
Expected scratches: Subban, Bartley, Barberio
Goalies
Petr Mrazek (Confirmed) Mike Condon  (Confirmed)
2015-’16 regular season:
Record: 27-16-6
GAA: 2.31
Sv%: .921
SO: 4
Alternate: Jimmy Howard
2015-’16 regular season:
Record: 18-23-6
GAA: 2.72
Sv%: .902
SO: 0
Alternate: Ben Scrivens
Fantasy Outlook
  • Top scorers for the Red Wings on the road this season are:
  1. Tomas Tatar (with 24 points in 37 games)
  2. Dylan Larkin (with 22 points in 35 games)
  3. Pavel Datsyuk and Gustav Nyquist (both with 21 points in 29 and 37 games respectively)
  • Top scorers for the Canadiens at home this season are:
  1.  Tomas Plekanec (with 27 points in 38 games)
  2. Max Pacioretty and P. K. Subban* (both with 26 points in 38 and 33 games respectively)
  3. Alex Galchenyuk (with 23 points in 38 games)

* – Currently injured

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

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