Game Preview: Detroit Red Wings vs. Montreal Canadiens 04/15/2024

The Detroit Red Wings host the Montreal Canadiens tonight in their final home game of the regular season. The Red Wings are coming off a 5-4 overtime win over the Maple Leafs on Saturday, while the Canadiens are coming off a 5-4 shootout loss to the Senators on Saturday.

Detroit Red Wings (39-32-9, 87 points) vs. Montreal Canadiens (30-36-14, 72 points)

When: Monday, April 15
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Where: Little Caesars Arena (Detroit, MI)
television: Bally Sports Detroit

The scoring leaders

Detroit Red Wings

Points: Lucas Raymond – 69
Goals: Dylan Larkin – 33
Assist: Shane Gostisbehe – 41

Montreal Canadiens

Points: Nick Suzuki – 76
Goals: Nick Suzuki – 33
Assist: Mike Matheson – 51

Expected line combinations

Detroit Red Wings

Alex DeBrincat – Dylan Larkin – Lucas Raymond
David Perron – JT Compher – Patrick Kane
Robbie Fabbri – Joe Veleno – Daniel Sprong
Zac Aston-Rees – Austin Charnik – Christian Fisher
Ben Chiaro – Moritz Seider
Jeff Petrie – Simon Edwinson
Ollie Maatta – Shane Gostisbehe

Montreal Canadiens

Cole Caulfield – Nick Suzuki – Juraj Slafovsky
Brendan Gallagher – Alex Newhook – Joel Armia
Raphael Harvey-Pinard – Jake Evans – Josh Anderson
Michael Pezzetta – Christian Dvorak – Jesse Ilonen
Mike Matheson is Justin Barron
Jordan Harris vs. Jonathan Kovacevic
Jayden Struble is David Savard

By numbers:

League ranking

Detroit Red Wings

PP%: 23.2 (9)
PK%: 79.3 (17)
GF P/G: 3.33 (9)
GA P/G: 3.31 (24)
Faceoff %: 50.7 (14)

Montreal Canadiens

PP%: 17.7 (27)
PK%: 76.4 (23)
GF P/G: 2.80 (27)
GA P/G: 3.40 (26)
Faceoff %: 51.4 (11)

Red Wings Player: Robbie Fabbri

Fabbri has played in 66 games this season, scoring 32 points with 18 goals and 14 assists. He has 12 points on the power play with five goals and seven assists. The Red Wings are 19-5-2 when Fabbri scores.

Fabbri's linear problems

Fabbri will play on the third line with Joe Veleno and Christian Fischer. It also features Daniel Spron, J.T. Compher, along with Alex DeBrincat and Moritz Seider on the second power play unit.

Fabbri's career against the Canadiens

Raymond had seven points with four goals and three assists in 13 career games against Montreal.

Between the pipes

Detroit: Alex Lyon (20-18-5, 3.03 GAA) / Ville Husso (9-5-2, 3.55 GAA) / James Reimer (10-8-2, 3.07 GAA)

Lyon last played Thursday against the Penguins, and he scored six goals on 27 shots in the overtime loss. He is 3-1-0 in his career against the Canadiens.

Huso returned to action on February 13 against Edmonton^th, but he left nearly nine minutes injured, stopping six of the seven shots he faced. He is 4-0-2 in his career against the Canadiens, who beat them in December, stopping 26 of the 30 shots he faced.

Reimer last played on Saturday against the Leafs and he stopped 32 of 36 shots he faced in the win. He is 7-7-2 in his career against Montreal and allowed three goals on 27 shots in November in an overtime loss to them.

Montreal: Sam Montembo (16-15-8, 3.10 GAA) / Cayden Primeau (8-9-3, 2.95 GAA)

Montembo last played Thursday against the Islanders and scored three goals on 31 shots in the overtime loss. He is 1-0-1 in his career against Detroit.

Prime last played against the Senators on Saturday and he allowed four goals on 44 shots in the loss. He's 1-1-0, with one win coming back in November, as he's stopped 27 of 29 batters he's faced.

Completion

The Red Wings kept their season alive with a win on Saturday, and now they need to beat the Canadiens in their final two games and hope the Bruins beat the Capitals tonight, and that should be enough to get them back into the Stanley Cup playoffs, where they could face the New York Rangers. But the first order of business is to take care of your business and beat Montreal.

Detroit is 6-2-2 in their last ten games against the Canadiens and has been outscored 29-27 in those ten games. Detroit split the season series, Montreal enters tonight, with both games going to overtime.