All Habs GameDay: Saturday December 3, 2011
On this day in hockey history… 1970 – Claude Ruel resigned as coach of the Montreal Canadiens and was replaced by Al MacNeil, who went on to lead the team to the Stanley Cup Championship five months later.
GAMEDAY: Habs hockey tonight!
MONTREAL CANADIENS vs 
LOS ANGELES KINGS
Staples Center, 3:30 p.m. EST TV: RDS
Projected line combinations (updated following morning skate)
MONTREAL CANADIENS
Forwards
Andrei Kostitsyn – Tomas Plekanec – Brian Gionta
Mike Cammalleri – David Desharnais – Erik Cole
Travis Moen – Lars Eller – Louis Leblanc
Mathieu Darche – Petteri Nokelainen – Frederic St. Denis
Defenseman
Josh Gorges – P.K. Subban
Hal Gill – Raphael Diaz
Alexei Emelin – Yannick Weber
Goaltenders
Carey Price (will start) – Peter Budaj
Scratches
Max Pacioretty – Andrei Markov – Aaron Palushaj
Injuries
Scott Gomez – Jaroslav Spacek – Andreas Engqvist – Chris Campoli – – Ryan White
Power-play
Cammalleri – Eller – Cole – Weber – Plekanec
Kostitsyn – Desharnais – Gionta – Subban – Diaz
LOS ANGELES KINGS
Forwards
Simon Gagne – Anze Kopitar – Dustin Brown
Dustin Penner – Jarret Stoll – Justin Williams
Brad Richardson – Andrei Loktionov- Kevin Westgarth
Etahn Moreau – Colin Fraser – Kyle Clifford
Defensemen
Rob Scuderi – Drew Doughty
Jack Johnson – Slava Voynov
Davis Drewiske – Matt Greene
Goaltenders
Jonathan Quick – Jonathan Bernier (will start)
Scratches
Injuries
Scott Parse – Mike Richards – Willie Mitchell – Alec Martinez
GAMEDAY: All Habs Headlines
►Gauthier to update media: Canadiens’ general manager Pierre Gauthier is calling a press conference at 2:30 p.m. EST in order to discuss Andrei Markov. 
Earlier this week, Markov’s agent, Don Meehan, launched his frustrations at the Montreal media for flooding him with questions regarding his client’s situation and whereabouts before the Habs’ game against San Jose, claiming he was “sick and tired of doing the PR work” [1] for the Canadiens.
► Gallagher with another multi-point night: Brendan Gallagher has 23 goals in 26 games with the Vancouver Giants. Last night he scored an empty-netter and added an assist in a 4-1 win over the Regina Pats, finishing +2 and as the first star of the evening. This came after he scored a hat trick on Wednesday in a 5-4 losing cause against the Brandon Wheat Kings. He is currently on a four-game point streak (4-4-8) with points in eight of his last ten games (a total of 17 points).
► Bulldogs continue struggles: The Hamilton Bulldogs were shut out by a familiar face last night by the count of 4-0: David Aebischer. Spencer Machacek scored twice, plus Aaron Gagnon and Eric O’Dell added goals of their own for the St. John’s IceCaps. Nathan Lawson, back from an upper body injury, made 35 stops in a losing cause. The Bulldogs fired 21 shots at Aebischer, plus some that struck iron. They will look to rebound as early as tonight as they face the Rochester Americans at Copps Coliseum, beginning at 7:00 p.m. EST.