All Habs GameDay: Wednesday November 30, 2011
On this day in hockey history… 1954 – Montreal and Chicago had a 3-3 tie in a Black Hawks “home” game in Omaha, Nebraska. 4,506 fans showed up to see the game. Chicago played six “home games” on the road that year, in Omaha, St. Louis, and St. Paul.
GAMEDAY: Habs hockey tonight!
Honda Center, 10:00 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
Louis Leblanc – Lars Eller – Travis Moen
Mathieu Darche – Petteri Nokelainen – Yannick Weber
Defenseman
Josh Gorges – P.K. Subban
Hal Gill – Frederic St. Denis
Alexei Emelin – Raphael Diaz
Goaltenders
Carey Price – Peter Budaj (will start)
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
ANAHEIM DUCKS
Forwards
Matt Beleskey – Ryan Getzlaf – Corey Perry
Andrew Cogliano – Saku Koivu – Teemu Selanne
Bobby Ryan – Ben Maxwell – Niklas Hagman
Andrew Gordon – Maxime Macenauer – Devante Smith-Pelly
Defensemen
Toni Lydman – Cam Fowler
Francois Beauchemin – Luca Sbisa
Sheldon Brookbank – Nate Guenin
Goaltenders
Jonas Hiller (will start) – Jeff Deslauriers
Scratches
Injuries
Jason Blake – Lubomir Visnovsky – George Parros – Dan Ellis
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► Makeup fine?: Pittsburgh Penguins forward James Neal was fined $2,500 for striking Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban on the helmet as he was falling to the ice during Saturday night’s game. The fine was announced by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety headed by Brendan Shanahan.
Frankly the fine is silly, was assessed for a minor incident and smacks of a makeup call to pacify the Montreal Canadiens shortly after losing Max Pacioretty to a three-game suspension. It also ignores the fact that Subban slew-footed Neal on the play. Dozens of far more serious incidents have gone completely unpunished this season.
This is further evidence of Shanahan’s inconsistency in assessing supplementary discipline.