Tonight: Canadiens at Jets

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Montreal Canadiens at Winnipeg Jets

When: Tonight, 7 p.m.at MTS Centre

On the Air: TSN Jets, TSN 1290

ABOUT THE CANADIENS

Montreal completes a four-game Western Canada road trip tonight, having gone 2-1 in the first three. The latest result was a 4-1 win at Vancouver on Saturday.

Off to a 3-2 start, the Habs have had a win from backup goalie Peter Budaj and sharp netminding from Carey Price, even though he’s just 2-2. Price’s average is 2.27 and his save percentage is .929.

Captain Brian Gionta rejoins the team for tonight’s game, having missed Saturday’s contest to be home with his ill son.

Montreal pretty much owns the head-to-head series with Jets 2.0, having won all three games last season and six of the seven meetings so far.

Centre Daniel Briere, a free-agent signing in the summer, will be moved down to the fourth line tonight. “We’ve got a lot of depth with our forwards and we decided to put Daniel Briere on the fourth line but you know what, things could change really quick in this business,” Montreal coach Michel Therrien said Monday. “This is the way we’re going to start the game.”

WINNIPEG JETS

31 Ondrej Pavelec

35 Al Montoya

4 Paul Postma

5 Mark Stuart

8 Jacob Trouba

9 Evander Kane

12 Olli Jokinen

14 Anthony Peluso

15 Matt Halischuk

16 Andrew Ladd

17 James Wright

18 Bryan Little

19 Jim Slater

22 Chris Thorburn

24 Grant Clitsome

26 Blake Wheeler

27 Eric Tangradi

33 Dustin Byfuglien

39 Toby Enstrom

40 Devin Setoguchi

44 Zach Bogosian

55 Mark Scheifele

67 Michael Frolik

MONTREAL CANADIENS

30 Peter Budaj

31 Carey Price

8 Brandon Prust

11 Brendan Gallagher

14 Tomas Plekanec

17 Rene Bourque

21 Brian Gionta

24 Jarred Tinordi

26 Josh Gorges

27 Alex Galchenyuk

32 Travis Moen

40 Nathan Beaulieu

48 Daniel Briere

49 Micha´l Bournival

51 David Desharnais

53 Ryan White

55 Francis Bouillon

61 Raphael Diaz

67 Max Pacioretty

6 P.K. Subban

79 Andrei Markov

81 Lars Eller

— Tim Campbell