All Habs GameDay: Thursday December 1, 2011
On this day in hockey history… 1924 – Boston Bruins played their first NHL game, a 2-1 win over the Montreal Maroons, at the Boston Arena, in the first NHL game played in the United States.
GAMEDAY: Habs hockey tonight!
HP Pavilion, 10:30 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
SAN JOSE SHARKS
Forwards
Logan Couture – Joe Thornton – Joe Pavelski
Ryan Clowe – Patrick Marleau – Martin Havlat
Jamie McGinn – Torrey Mitchell – Andrew Murray
Frazer McLaren – Andrew Desjardins – Brad Winchester
Defensemen
Douglas Muuray – Dan Boyle
Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Brent Burns
Jim Vandermeer – Jason Demers
Goaltenders
Antti Niemi (will start) – Thomas Greiss
Scratches
Injuries
Antero Nittymaki – James Sheppard – Michal Handzus
GAMEDAY: All Habs Headlines
► Bite the hand: You heard the one about the aggressive union executives that are so publicly critical of the employer that they put the company out of business? Well, it seems that Octagon Sports player agent Alan Walsh follows that school of thought.
You may remember Walsh did his client, former Canadiens goalie Jaroslav Halak no favors by trashing Carey Price in public a few years ago. In October, Walsh looked foolish by complaining about an obvious suspension to Pierre-Marc Bouchard. He is quickly stamping a persona non grata label on his players in the eyes of some NHL general managers.
The latest incident concerns client Derick Brassard who has been a recent healthy scratch by Columbus coach Scott Arniel. Walsh sounded off.
“While I have tremendous respect for Scott Howson and the rest of Columbus’ management team, the situation regarding Derick Brassard has become untenable. This coach has a history of burying players and using them as scapegoats to mask his own lack of success on the ice. Derick has been singled out, almost from the very beginning of the season to be the fall guy in case things don’t go well. The Columbus organization cares about Derick and has been good to him, but at some point enough is enough.” –Allan Walsh
Read more: Player agent Walsh slams Blue Jacket’s Arniel in statement