NHL Projected Lineups, First Scorers, Injuries, Updates – Hockey Writers – Column

Check back each day for projected lineups, early goals, injury news, and roster updates for every playoff game. On weekends, the lineup will be published before the matinee performances.

Sources: NHL.com staff writers, freelance writers and others.

Eastern Conference First Round, Game 3

7pm ET; MAX, MNMT, truTV, MSGSN, TNT, MSG, SN360, TVAS

New York leads the series by 7, 2-0

Guardians are proposed

Chris Kreider – Mika Zibanejad – Jack Roslovic

Artemi Panarin – Vincent Trocheck – Alexis Lafreniere

Will Cuylle – Alex Wennberg – Kaapo Kakko

Jimmy Vesey – Barclay Goodrow – Matt Rempe

Ryan Lindgren – Adam Fox

K'Andre Miller – Braden Schneider

Erik Gustafsson – Jacob Trouba

Igor Shesterkin

Jonathan Quick

Scratched: Zac Jones, Jonny Brodzinski, Chad Ruhwedel, Filip Chytil, Louis Domingue, Adam Edstrom

Injured: Blake Wheeler (lower body)

Status report

• Wennberg participated in an optional morning skate on Friday and said he will play after not practicing on Thursday to rehab.

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Capitalization guesses the list

Alex Ovechkin – Connor McMichael – TJ Oshie

Aliaksei Protas – Dylan Strome – Tom Wilson

Max Pacioretty – Hendrix Lapierre – Sonny Milano

Beck Malenstyn – Nic Dowd – Ivan Miroshnichenko

Martin Fehervary – John Carlson

Lucas Johansen – Trevor van Riemsdyk

Alexander Alexeyev – Dylan McIlrath

Charlie Lindgren

Darcy Kuemper

Scratched: Michael Sgarbossa, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Hardy Haman Aktell

Injured: Rasmus Sandin (upper body), Nick Jensen (upper body), Vincent Iorio (upper body)

Status report

• Milano skated on Friday and will play after taking a maintenance day on Thursday.
• Defenders Sandin and Jensen each participated in the morning jersey on Friday and coach Spencer Carbery did not rule out their return after missing the first two games.
• Miroshnichenko will make his NHL playoff debut.

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Western Conference First Round, Game 3

7:30 p.m. ET; MAX, TBS, BSSO, TVAS2, SN

The best-of-7 series is tied at 1-1

The Canucks propose a plan

Pius Suter – JT Miller – Brock Boeser

Nils Hoglander – Elias Pettersson – Conor Garland

Dakota Joshua – Elias Lindholm – Ilya Mikheyev

Phillip Di Giuseppe – Teddy Blueger – Sam Lafferty

Quinn Hughes – Filip Hronek

Carson Soucy – Tyler Myers

Ian Cole – Nikita Zadorov

Casey DeSmith

Arturs Silovs

Scratched: Mark Friedman, Nils Aman, Noah Juulsen, Vasily Podkolzin, Nikita Tolopilo

Injured: Thatcher Demko (undisclosed)

Status report

• Myers was out 4-1 in Game 2 due to illness but is expected to play. The Canucks are holding an optional morning skate.

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The Predators propose a plan

Filip Forsberg – Ryan O'Reilly – Gustav Nyquist

Anthony Beauvillier – Colton Sissons – Jason Zucker

Mark Jankowski – Tommy Novak – Luke Evangelista

Cole Smith – Michael McCarron – Kiefer Sherwood

Ryan McDonagh – Roman Josi

Jeremy Lauzon – Alexandre Carrier

Spencer Stastney – Luke Schenn

Juice Saros

Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Tyson Barrie, Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Cody Glass, Dante Fabbro, Gustavs Grigals, Juuso Parssinen

Injured: Nothing

Status report

• Parssinen, a forward, was recalled to the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League on Thursday but is not expected to play. Forsberg did not participate in the morning skate but is expected to play.

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Western Conference First Round, Game 3

10 p.m. ET; MAX, truTV, TNT, ALT, TVAS, CBC

The best-of-7 series is tied 1-1

Projected roster for the Jets

Kyle Connor – Mark Scheifele – Gabriel Vilardi

Nikolaj Ehlers – Sean Monahan – Tyler Toffoli

Nino Niederreiter – Adam Lowry – Mason Appleton

David Gustafsson – Vladislav Namestnikov – Alex Iafallo

Josh Morrissey – Dylan DeMelo

Brenden Dillon – Neal Pionk

Nate Schmidt – Dylan Samberg

Connor Hellebuyck

Laurent Brossoit

Scratched: Rasmus Kupari, Cole Perfetti, Colin Miller, Collin Delia, Logan Stanley

Injured: Morgan Barron (lower body)

Status report

• Girard, a defenseman, participated in the morning skate and it could be a game-time decision. He missed the first two games of the series while in a coma.
• Annunen, who missed the last two matches due to illness, will back up Georgiev.
• Holm, a goaltender, was returned to Colorado in the American Hockey League on Friday.

The proposed avalanche

Valeri Nichushkin – Nathan MacKinnon – Mikko Rantanen

Arthur Lehkonen – Casey Mittelstadt – Zach Parise

Miles Wood – Ross Colton – Joel Kiviranta

Andrew Cogliano – Yakov Trenin – Brandon Duhaime

Devon Toews – Cale Makar

Sean Walker – Josh Manson

Caleb Jones – Jack Johnson

Alexander Georgiev

Justus Annunen

Scratched: Arvid Holm

Injured: Jonathan Drouin (lower body), Samuel Girard (concussion)

Status report

• Schmidt, a defenseman, will make his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut, replacing Stanley on the roster.