Canadiens make 621-game veteran a healthy scratch ahead of Tuesday's game in Minnesota

Despite winning their last two games, the Montreal Canadiens will make a pair of changes to their lineup when they take on the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.

Forwards Jonathan Drouin and Rem Pitlick will return to the lineup after missing Saturday's game in St. Louis due to being healthy scratches.

With Drouin and Pitlick back in, Michael Pezzetta and 621-game NHL veteran Mike Hoffamn will be in the press box for tonight's tilt. Pezzetta made his season debut on Saturday night and logged a total of 11:04 TOI.

Meanwhile for Mike Hoffman, it hasn't been a very good start to the season. At times, he's shown that he can be lazy and has made mistake after mistake, but in desperate need of goals, the Canadiens deployed him on the powerplay with the hope he can find the back of the net, something Hoffman has been known for throughout his career.

The six-time 20+ goal scorer has one goal and one assist in nine games for the Canadiens this season. Hoffman is in the second year of a three-year contract he signed with Montreal last summer and it comes with an AAV of $4.5 million.

Here is Montreal's projected lineup for tonight's game in Minnesota (8 p.m. ET puck drop):

Caufield-Suzuki-Dach
Anderson-Dvorak-Gallagher
Drouin-Monahan-Armia
Pitlick-Evans-Slafkovsky

Guhle-Savard
Xhekaj-Wideman
Harris-Kovacevic

Allen (starting)
Montembeault

Hoffman and Pezzetta join Dadonov on the sidelines. Enter Drouin and Pitlick https://t.co/9DH18Z0wfF— Eric Engels (@EricEngels) November 1, 2022

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