GameDay: Habs vs ‘Canes Lineups, Price, Palchak

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All Habs GameDay: Wednesday November 23, 2011

On this day in hockey history 1926 – Rookie goaltender George Hainsworth recorded the first of his 94 career NHL shutouts, as Montreal beat the New York Americans, 2-0.

GAMEDAY: Habs hockey tonight!

 MONTREAL CANADIENS vs CAROLINA HURRICANES

RBC Center,  7:00 p.m. EST TV: RDS


Projected line combinations (will be updated following morning skate)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Forwards
Mike Cammalleri – Tomas Plekanec – Brian Gionta
Max Pacioretty  – David Desharnais – Erik Cole
Travis Moen – Scott Gomez – Lars Eller
Mathieu Darche – Petteri Nokelainen – Aaron Palushaj

Defenseman
Josh Gorges – P.K. Subban
Alexei Emelin – Yannick Weber
Hal Gill – Raphael Diaz

Goaltenders
Carey Price  (will start) – Peter Budaj

Scratches
Frederic St. Denis

Injuries
Andrei Kostitsyn – Jaroslav Spacek – Andreas Engqvist – Chris Campoli – Andrei Markov – Ryan White

Power-play
Pacioretty – Desharnais – Cole – Weber – Plekanec
Cammalleri – Gomez – Gionta – Subban – Diaz

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Forwards
Jeff Skinner – Eric Staal – Tuomo Ruutu
Alexei Ponikarovsky – Jussi Jokinen – Chad LaRose
Jiri Tlusty – Brandon Sutter – Pat Dwyer
Brett Sutter – Tim Brent – Anthony Stewart

Defensemen
Bryan Allen – Tim Gleason
Tomas Kaberle – Jamie McBain
Jay Harrison – Justin Faulk

Goaltenders
Cam Ward (will start) – Brian Boucher

Scratches
Zac Dalpe

Injuries
Joni Pitkanen

GAMEDAY: All Habs Headlines

 

► Price needs your votes: Every game Carey Price gives your Montreal Canadiens a chance to win.  Price has been NHL’s first star of the week twice in this young season, and the Molson Cup winner for the month of October. Now he needs your help.

Price currently sits in eighth place in All-Star voting for goaltenders. Head on over to NHL.com to cast your ballot for Price and all of your favourites.

 

GOALIES
TEAM PLAYERS VOTES
* Write-in candidate | from Canadiens.com
Tim Thomas 95 681
Marc-Andre Fleury 88 100
James Reimer 73 158
Pekka Rinne 72 235
Henrik Lundqvist 65 441
Ilya Bryzgalov 60 595
Nikolai Khabibulin 51 515
Carey Price 50 251
Roberto Luongo 49 427
Kari Lehtonen 42 527
Jonathan Quick 39 498
Corey Crawford
36 921

Price describes mask: Goaltender Carey Price speaks with HabsTV about the images on his mask.

 

► Palchak remembered: Eddy Palchak, the Habs equipment manager from 1966 to 1997 died on November 16 at the age of 71.  On Tuesday Palchak was laid to rest and was fondly remembered by former Canadiens players.

“When you win Stanley Cups, you have to have the best trainer and the best organization and Eddy was a part of it.  He knew how to make the guys feel good.” — Yvan Cournoyer

Read more: Friends, legends gather to remember Habs’ Eddy Palchak