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LINEUPS

LW	C	RW
Daniel Sedin	Henrik Sedin	Radim Vrbata
Sven Baertschi	Bo Horvat	Jannik Hansen
Alexandre Burrows	Brandon Sutter	Jake Virtanen
Brandon Prust	Jared McCann	Derek Dorsett

Defensive Pairings
Alexander Edler	Chris Tanev
Dan Hamhuis	Yannick Weber
Ben Hutton	Luca Sbisa

Apparently Carey Price is having another MVP/Vezina type season. Not really surprising at all because he’s all world and Montreal is lucky to have him. Unless someone kidnaps him today, he’ll start and he’ll stand on his head. El Capitan Max Pacioretty is fourth in league scoring and second in goals, PK Subban is second in assists and the top five players in the league for plus/minus are all Habs. I give up. Dale Weise, as I mentioned, is playing. That’s all I’ve got for hope that it won’t be 8-0 Montreal.

Montreal Canadiens lines courtesy of Dailyfaceoff.com:

LW	C	RW
Max Pacioretty	Tomas Plekanec	Brendan Gallagher
Lars Eller	Alex Galchenyuk	Alexander Semin
Tomas Fleischmann	David Desharnais	Dale Weise
Brian Flynn	Torrey Mitchell	Devante Smith-Pelly

Defensive Pairings
Andrei Markov	P.K. Subban
Alexei Emelin	Jeff Petry
Nathan Beaulieu	Tom Gilbert

REASONS TO WATCH THIS GAME

• Is tonight the night we get our first home win AND break the Canadiens streak to start the season? Montreal is due and the Canucks aren’t usually the ones doing the upsetting, but I’ve got a feeling. Might just be gas, though.
• The Blue Jays aren’t in the baseballs anymore and to protest the game itself until about April, the Canucks need your support and Sportsnet VAN is your place to protest. You can protest any of Willie’s line changes, Luca’s “Pizzas”, or keeping the kids on the bench longer than necessary. 
• Gonna chill a bit on the Ben Hutton love train, he knows he’s good. Tonight we shift our focus to Jared McCann. He needs a boost and hopefully Willie D eats a Snickers; he makes iffy line decisions when he’s hungry. We believe in you, Jared!
• Yannick Weber is STILL in the lineup! His presence will give the back end a boost and his slapper has been referred to as “this generation’s Al Iafrate”. Ok, that’s not true; I just wrote made that up on the spot. But its hard, heavy and it knows how to find the back of the net. REAL QUOTE TIME: To quote the #1 Disney movie of all time “Let it go!” Yannick, let it go.
• Speaking of names that are the same but spelled differently, Jannik Hansen could use a goal. He could use a breakaway goal and on a hot goalie like Price. I was going to jump to a goal Carey Price let in on Hansen but it was just a big save. You see where this is going. Just score Jannik with a J.
• You could watch this game to see the Canadiens MAYBE beat the Canucks to become the third team in NHL history to go 10-0 to start the season, you could watch for a handful of Dale Weise shifts or you could maybe even watch to see Jake Virtanen make an impact that keeps him up on the big club this year, but if you watch for one reason: Watch for the awful personalized goal songs. Blah blah blah cliche country song.

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