How to Watch Panthers at Canadiens: Lines, Goalies, Betting Odds

The Florida Panthers will try and keep the good times going tonight in Montreal, but the Canadiens do not figure to be hospitable hosts.

Montreal is a point back of Columbus for the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference despite losing three of four on a western road trip which ended Wednesday night in Seattle on Brandon Montour’s goal 4 seconds into overtime.

The Panthers are 1-1 in the first two games of this six-game swing all against playoff teams or those right in the thick of things.

Florida will play at the New York Islanders, who are still within shouting distance of the wild-card race, on Sunday night.

The Panthers are 0-1 against the Canadiens thus far this season.

On Dec. 28, 23-year-old Jakub Dobes made his NHL debut and made 33 saves to shutout the Panthers 4-0 in Sunrise.

Dobes and former Florida goalie Sam Montembeault make a pretty good tandem.

Montembeault comes into the weekend at 2.87/.900; Dobes is 2.71/.907.

NOTES: PANTHERS @ CANADIENS

• How to Watch: Tonight’s game is on local TV as well as NHL Network outside of the Panthers viewing territory. Because the Hockey Night in Canada feed will be on NHL Network, it will not be on ESPN+. It will be streamed on Panthers+ locally.
• Starting Goalies: Sergei Bobrovsky is back in net for the Panthers after beating Toronto on Thursday. Montembeault goes for the Canadiens.
• NHL Betting Odds: The Panthers are slight favorites on the money line (-190) at the local book. To win with the Panthers, a $190 bet pays $100.

ON DECK: GAME No. 67

FLORIDA PANTHERS at MONTREAL CANADIENS 

• When: Saturday, 7 p.m.
• Where: Bell Centre, Montreal
• Local TV: Scripps Sports — WSFL 39 (Miami/FtL); WHDT 9 (WPB); LAFF 36.3 (SWFla) 
• National TV: NHL Network
• Streaming: Panthers+
• Radio: WPOW 96.5-FM2; WBZT 1230-AM (Palm Beach); WCTH 100.3-FM (Florida Keys); SiriusXM
• Panthers Radio Streaming: SiriusXM 932, NHL App
• Betting Odds — Panthers Favored: Money Line (-190); Puck line (-1.5, +130); Over/Under 5.5 (-120/+100)
• Last Season: Florida won 3-1
• This Season (Canadiens Lead 1-0) — At Montreal: Saturday; Ap. 1. At Florida: Canadiens 4, Panthers 0 (Dec. 28); March 30.
• All-time Regular Season Series: Florida leads 58-40-11, 6 ties
• Up Next for the Panthers: Sunday at New York Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

PROJECTED FLORIDA PANTHERS (41-22-3) LINES

23 Carter Verhaeghe // 16 Sasha Barkov // 13 Sam Reinhart

25 Mackie Samoskevich // 9 Sam Bennett // 17 Evan Rodrigues

27 Eetu Luostarinen // 15 Anton Lundell // 70 Jesper Boqvist

10 A.J. Greer // 8 Nico Sturm // 12 Jonah Gadjovich

42 Gus Forsling // 3 Seth Jones

77 Niko Mikkola // 7 Dmitry Kulikov

26 Uvis Balinskis // 88 Nate Schmidt

72 Sergei Bobrovsky

41 Vitek Vanecek

Scratched: Tomas Nosek

Suspended: Aaron Ekblad

Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (lower body/LTIR), Brad Marchand (upper body)

PROJECTED MONTREAL CANADIENS (31-27-7) LINES

13 Cole Caufield // 14 Nick Suzuki // 20 Juraj Slafkovsky

89 Joshua Roy // 15 Alex Newhook // 92 Patrik Laine

55 Michael Pezzetta // 28 Christian Dvorak // 17 Josh Anderson

51 Emil Heineman // 71 Jake Evans // 11 Brendan Gallagher

8 Mike Matheson // 45 Alexandre Carrier

47 Jayden Struble // 48 Lane Hutson

72 Arber Xhekaj // 58 David Savard

35 Sam Montembeault

75 Jakob Dobes

Scratched: Joel Armia

Injured: Kaiden Guhle (lower body)