Lane Hutson is switching training partners

After that, practice was finally able to start as usual, and the many fans in attendance were treated to a very intense session by the Habs players.

As for the lineup itself, well, the only change we noticed is on defense, where Lane Hutson's partner is now Kaiden Guhle instead of Alexandre Carrier.

Martin St-Louis has therefore shuffled things up a bit to change two defensive pairs, pairing Carrier—who will most likely return to the lineup tomorrow—with Mike Matheson instead of Hutson.

Hutson and Carrier together might have been too small a defensive pairing for the playoffs, especially against Tampa.

The top-4 could look like this tomorrow, with Jayden Struble and Arber Xhekaj rounding out the defensive corps.

As for the offense, the lines haven't changed in the last three practices, except when Nick Suzuki was absent.

Barring a surprise, we'll see this exact lineup of the four trios tomorrow night in Game 1.

And in net, Dobes looked like a number one, unsurprisingly, while we saw more of a rotation between Jacob Fowler and Samuel Montembeault.

In short, everything seems to be in place for the start of this series, which will undoubtedly be thrilling.

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