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NEXT GAME: MTL @ VAN

The Montreal Canadiens complete their five-game home stand on Wednesday as they take on the Vancouver Canucks.

Puck drop is scheduled for 10:30 p.m. ET. on March 9th at the Rogers Arena.

Watch for our full game day preview available on Wednesday afternoon. Post-game we will publish a comprehensive game recap.

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Rookie Dinner

The Canadiens held their traditional rookie dinner on Sunday in Vancouver. Due to pandemic restrictions the annual event was cancelled last year. That meant that seven players were eligible this year including Jake Evans, Cole Caufield, Michael Pezzetta, Nick Suzuki, Alexander Romanov, Corey Schueneman and Cayden Primeau.

“It’s a tradition,” said interim head coach Martin St. Louis. “When the schedule comes out, you already start looking to find out where you can organize the rookie dinner. You look at the cities where you can have fun and where you spend a little more time. It fell on Vancouver this year.”

Event organizer Joel Edmundson had the rookies on Vancouver streets in wet suits and frogman gear.

The dinner was held at the Blue Water Cafe and featured lobster. The seven rookies picked up the tab. According to Cole Caufield, the total was “eye-opening.”

“I’ll remember the whole night, just being with the guys and getting to experience that with them, and kind of relax and get away from hockey a little bit,” said Caufield. “I know the guys enjoyed themselves, and I think that was really good for us.”

Forward Lines / Defence Pairs / Goalies

On Monday, the Canadiens practiced for almost 60-minutes at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver. The team welcomed back Jake Allen (lower-body), Paul Byron (upper-body), Jonathan Drouin (wrist) and Christian Dvorak (upper-body).

Byron, Drouin and Dvorak practiced wearing non-contact jerseys.

Also wearing non-contact jerseys at practice were Jake Evans and Jeff Petry. Evans missed the game against the Oilers with an upper-body injury. Petry was added to the injury list with an upper-body injury following the game in Edmonton.

These were the forward lines, defence pairings and goaltenders for the Canadiens 5-2 win on Saturday:

Cole Caufield – Nick Suzuki – Josh Anderson
Mike Hoffman – Laurent Dauphin – Brendan Gallagher
Artturi Lehkonen – Rem Pitlick – Joel Armia
Michael Pezzetta – Ryan Poehling – Mathieu Perreault

Alexander Romanov – Ben Chiarot
Brett Kulak – Jeff Petry
Kale Clague – Chris Wideman

Sam Montembeault – Cayden Primeau

Injury Update

On Monday, Canadiens interim head coach Marty St. Louis would not confirm that Joel Edmundson and Jeff Petry would be in the lineup against the Canucks on Wednesday. Edmundson has not played a game in the 2021-22 season.

Here is the Canadiens current injury list:

Andrew Hammond (lower-body)
Jake Evans (upper-body)
Jeff Petry (upper-body)
Paul Byron (upper-body)
Christian Dvorak (upper-body)
David Savard (ankle)
Jonathan Drouin (wrist)
Jake Allen (lower-body)
Joel Edmundson (back)
Carey Price (knee)
Shea Weber (multiple injuries)

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