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Massive Shock at Canadiens Practice: Martin St. Louis Has Demoted a Player For No Reason

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Aaron Itovitch
December 12, 2023 (2:15 PM)

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In the last few minutes, several journalists at the Montreal Canadiens' practice at the Bell Centre observed that head coach Martin St-Louis has once again made changes to the lineup.

Despite scoring a beautiful goal in the shootout on Saturday night, Jesse Ylonen has been moved to the fourth line. His Finnish compatriot, Joel Armia, is now playing alongside Brendan Gallagher and Christian Dvorak on the third line.

Here is the lineup that is expected to face the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night:

Cole Caufield -- Nick Suzuki -- Juraj Slafkovsky
Sean Monahan -- Jake Evans -- Josh Anderson
Joel Armia -- Christian Dvorak -- Brendan Gallagher
Michael Pezzetta -- Mitchell Stephens -- Jesse Ylonen

Mike Matheson -- David Savard
Kaiden Guhle -- Justin Barron
Jayden Struble -- Jonathan Kovacevic

More details will follow.

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12 DECEMBRE \| 135 ANSWERS Massive Shock at Canadiens Practice: Martin St. Louis Has Demoted a Player For No Reason Should Ylonen be in the top-9?
Yes	107	79.3 %
No	28	20.7 %
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Massive Shock at Canadiens Practice: Martin St. Louis Has Demoted a Player For No Reason

In the last few minutes, several journalists at the Montreal Canadiens' practice at the Bell Centre observed that head coach Martin St-Louis has once again made changes to the lineup.

Should Ylonen be in the top-9?