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Monday, April 21, 2014

Habs Game Day: April 22nd vs Tampa Bay

Lightning @ Canadiens
7pm EST
Bell Centre
CBC, RDS, NHLN-US, TSN 690
Canadiens lead Series 3-0

• Due to the conclusion of the AHL regular season and the fact that Bulldogs are not in the playoffs, the Habs have called up Dustin Tokarski, Nathan Beaulieu, Mike Blunden, Devan Dubnyk, Davis Drewiskie, Greg Pateryn, Gabriel Dumont, Louis Leblanc, Christian Thomas, Sven Andrighetto. 
Alex Galchenyuk will not play in the first round of the playoffs.
• Habs took a 3-0 series lead with a 3-2 win over Tampa, Brendan Gallagher, Tomas Plekanec, Rene Bourque scored for Montreal, while P.K. Subban had 2 highlight reel assists and Carey Price made 28 saves.
• Carey Price will start, Peter Budaj will back up.
• Douglas Murray and Jarred Tinordi could be healthy scratches after both were for the previous 3 games of the series.
• Lightning's starting goalie Ben Bishop will not play due to inury. Anders Lindback could start. Sami Salo missed Game 3 with an upper-body injury and could be out for Game 4. Both JT Brown and Steven Stamkos were injured in Game 3, but both returned to the game.
• If the Canadiens win on Tuesday, they will precede to the 2nd round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and will play the winner of the Detroit-Boston series. If Tampa Bay wins, the two teams will reconvene at Tampa Bay Times Forum on Thursday.

Habs Projected Lineup:
Pacioretty-Desharnias-Vanek
Prust-Plekanec-Gallagher
Bourque-Eller-Gionta
Bournival-Brière-Weise

Gorges-Subban
Markov-Emelin
Bouillon-Weaver

Price
Budaj

Healthy scratches: Tinordi, Murray, Parros, White, Beaulieu, Pateryn, Dubnyk, Tokarski, Andrighetto, Dumont, Blunden, Drewiskie, Leblanc, Thomas

Injured: Moen, Galchenyuk


Written by Dante Aralihalli

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