The Blues have the best home record in the Western Conference at 11-1-3. They've won six of their last seven home games and draw the Canadiens concluding a five-game, 12-day road trip.

St. Louis is off a 3-2 overtime road loss to Winnipeg this past Saturday in which backup goalie Carter Hutton was in net. Montreal defeated the Kings, 5-4, in a shootout two days ago. Prior to that game, the Canadiens had only managed five goals during regulation in their last four games.

Montreal's scoring woes have coincided with their leading goal and points scorer Alex Galchenyuk being out with a lower-body injury. He had scored 23 points in 25 games.