MONTREAL — Judging by pregame warm-up line drills, rookie winger Byron Bitz will be the healthy scratch tonight for the Boston Bruins for Game 4 of the Eastern Confernece quarterfinal series with Montreal.
Here are the lines for the sweep-minded Bruins:
Axelsson-Savard-Kessel
Recchi-Bergeron-Kobasew
Lucic-Krejci-Ryder
Thornton-Yelle-Wheeler
Chara-Ward
Montador-Wideman
Stuart-Hnidy
Tim Thomas in goal.
It doesn’t look like Alex Tanguay, who took the warm-up will play. Here are the lines Montreal skated:
A. Kostitsyn-Koivu-Kovalev
Stewart-Plekanec-D’Agostini
Latendresse-Lapierre-Kostopoulos
Higgins-Metropolit-Laraque
Hamrlik-Komisarek
Gorges-Dandenault
O’Byrne-Weber
Carey Price will start in goal.
UPDATE: Bitz and Tanguay are out.








