The Canadiens held a short morning practice session in Winnipeg today in preparation for tonight’s game against the Jets.
On this occasion veteran Joel Edmundson, whose trainer Martin St-Louis said yesterday that he was very likely to return to the game tonight ran alongside young Arber Xhekaj.
The 29-year-old, who was hit in the lower body, has not played a game this season but has been in training for several days.
His presence alongside Xhekaj, combined with the fact that Chris Wideman was completing rotations in practice, suggests the Manitoban will be back in action tonight as number six is likely to skip his move.
St-Louis has already confirmed goalkeeper Samuel Montembeault will protect the Montreal cage tonight.
Do you see it education of habs in training:
22 – Cole Caufield 14 – Nick Suzuki 77 – Kirby roof
17-Josh Anderson 28-Christian Dvorak 11-Brendan Gallagher
27-Jonathan Drouin 91-Sean Monahan 40-Joel Armia
32 – Rem Pitlick 71 – Jake Evans 20 – Juraj Slafkovsky
63 – Evgenii Dadonov 68 – Mike Hoffman 55 – Michael Pezzetta
21 – Kaiden Guhlé 58 – David Savard
44-Joel Edmundson 72-Arber Xhekaj
54-Jordan Harris 26-Johnathan Kovacevic
6 – Chris Wideman
35 – Samuel Montembeault
34-Jake Allen
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