Juraj Slafkovsky is still not ready to return to play.
Posted at 12:06 p.m.
Unsurprisingly, Martin St-Louis has confirmed that the injured 18-year-old will not be able to face the visitors from Minnesota on Tuesday night at the Bell Center in the seventh game of the season for the Canadiens.
Moreover, the situation of the wounded does not evolve so quickly at the Canadian. Joel Armia and Joel Edmundson continue to skate in practice, but they too are on the sidelines. “They’re going to take part in the trip that’s coming with the rest of the team and we’ll see from then on,” the Montreal coach simply replied Tuesday morning at the Bell Centre.
But before setting off on the road for a dream trip to Buffalo, St-Louis, St-Paul and Winnipeg, the Canadiens will welcome on Tuesday evening a club that has won only one game since the start of the season. season.
Their play on the power play works very well, we will have to make sure to stay away from the penalty bench and to sell the penalties well if we have to. They haven’t had the expected results since the start of the season, so they will be hungry and we should expect them to be at the top of their game against us.
Martin St Louis
It’s Jake Allen who will be in net for the Canadian, who has posted a 2-2 record since the start of the season.
The formation of the Canadian in training
Caufield-Suzuki-Monahan
Dadonov-Dvorak-Gallagher
Drouin-Dach-Anderson
Pitlick-Evans-Hoffman
Guhle Savard
Harris-Kovacevic
Xhekaj-Wideman
Allen