Martin St-Louis makes last-minute changes to his lineup and it involves Oliver Kapanen
The Montreal Canadiens are in Washington to face the Capitals tonight, and avoid getting crushed like Tuesday night against the Seattle Kraken.
This defeat forced Martin St-Louis to make several changes, and there are the returns to health from a few injured players that also forced him to act. The coach did not sit idly by.
Indeed, during Wednesday morning's practice, Emil Heineman was on the first line, while Oliver Kapanen was on the 2nd and Alex Newhook was on the 3rd. Quite noticeable changes.
In addition, Justin Barron and Kaiden Guhle were on regular duos, they who had been injured for a few games. Really, the soup was stirred up a lot.
All these changes are now confirmed, except one. Oliver Kapanen will finally play on the 4th line and Alex Newhook will remain on the second.
Here are the trios and duos used by Martin St-Louis in morning training: Caufield-Suzuki-Heineman
Slafkovsk�-Newhook-Dach
Anderson-Evans-Gallagher
Armia-Dvorak-Kapanen
Matheson-Guhle
Hutson-Savard
Struble-Barron
Primeau
Montembeault
This means that there are notable changes to the lineup both on offense and defense, but also at the starting goalkeeper.
Cayden Primeau replaces Samuel Montembeault, Emil Heineman will play on the first line, Kaiden Guhle returns to the first pair, while Jayden Struble returns to the 3rd with Justin Barron while Arber Xhekaj is left out.
In short, the team will have a whole new face tonight, and the Capitals will have to improvise to counter them. They will have to try to impose their style.
