NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Montreal Canadiens with Line Combinations 2/9/2025

Tampa Bay Lightning (29-20-4, 62 Pts) at Montreal Canadiens (25-23-5, 55 Pts)
Venue: Bell Centre
Date: Today – Sunday, February 9
Time: 1:00 pm EST

TV: NHL Network, FDSSUN
Radio:
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
Montreal – TSN 690

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Tampa Bay -1.5 ML -124
Montreal +1.5 ML +148
O/U 6

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning have won three of their last four games after sweeping the Ottawa Senators in back-to-back games. Tampa Bay is 11-13-2 on the road this season. Tampa Bay has a plus-39 goal differential.

Montreal Canadiens News & Notes:

Montreal is 1-4 in the last five games and seeing themselves struggle to gain ground in the Eastern Conference standings. The Canadiens are five points behind the Boston Bruins, and it is starting to look like they will be primarily sellers on trade deadline day.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

Goncalves-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Paul-Guentzel
Sheary-Girgensons-Chaffee
Atkinson-Glendening-Eyssimont

Hedman-Raddysh
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix

Vasilevskiy
Halverson

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Montreal Canadiens Projected Lines

Caufield-Suzuki-Slafkovsky
Newhook-Dach-Anderson
Laine-Evans-Armia
Beck-Dvorak-Gallagher

Hutson-Carrier
Matheson-Mailloux
Xhekaj-Savard

Dobes
Montembeault

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Montreal Hockey – Inside The Rink

Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov has registered 25 goals and 54 assists for the Lightning. Brayden Point and Brandon Hagel have 56 points each.

Montreal Canadiens

Patrik Laine has seen a dip in production lately with the Canadiens. With Laine’s scoring talent, Montreal needs him to be lighting the lamp for the team to be more successful.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

D J.J. Moser – Day to day
G Jonas Johansson – Day to day
C Anthony Cirelli – Day to day

Montreal Canadiens

D Emil Heineman – Out three to four weeks
D David Reinbacher – LTIR – Out five to six months
D Kaiden Guhle – Out indefinitely

Next Game

Tampa Bay Lightning – February 23 vs Seattle Kraken
Montreal Canadiens – February 22 at Ottawa Senators

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