The Canadiens proceeded to cut more players today, including Nikita Scherbak, Charles Hudon, and Daniel Audette.

That leaves 27 players at camp including Shea Weber and Carey Price, who are currently taking their medicals after returning as champions from the World Cup of Hockey.

Here’s what the lines look like during practice this morning.

Les cinq trios du CH…



Pacioretty-Galchenyuk-Gallagher

Lehkonen-Plek-Radulov

Carr-DD-Shaw

Danault-Mitchell-Byron

Andrighetto-McCarron-Flynn — J-F Chaumont (@JFChaumontJDM) October 3, 2016

Interestingly, Artturi Lehkonen is practicing in a top six role, which bodes well for his chances to make the final cut.

As for Daniel Carr, he’s currently practicing on the third line. His placement is interesting seeing as Carr is waiver exempt this season, and if the Canadiens choose to keep him on the roster they would be forced to place someone like Brian Flynn or Sven Andrighetto on waivers.

Here’s the setup on the blue line:

À la ligne bleue:



Markov-Emelin

Beaulieu-Pateryn

Petry-Redmond

Sergachev-Barberio — J-F Chaumont (@JFChaumontJDM) October 3, 2016

The defensive situation is a little harder to get a read on, especially since Shea Weber is yet to join the team. He could end up playing alongside Jeff Petry, who has practiced on the left side in recent days.

Obviously we don’t want to read too much into lines at practice. A lot can change from here to the start of the 2016-17 campaign. But one thing is for sure, hockey is almost here, and it can’t arrive a moment too soon.