Canadiens Made a Bizarre Change This Morning as Martin St-Louis Backtracked in His Press Conference

During practice, significant changes were observed on defense.

That led to the following:

We thought these were the new defensive pairs for the Canadiens, but not so fast.

Martin St-Louis backtracked in his press conference.

I have no idea why, and it's really strange, but the Canadiens' head coach revealed in his press conference that the defensive pairs will remain the same as last Saturday.

So why change your defensive pairs during the morning skate, on the morning of a game, for no apparent reason?

It's obviously nothing too serious, but I don't understand why the correct pairs weren't practicing together on the morning of a game.

Anyway, if you see this going around, I thought it was worth clarifying the situation.

So, even though the Canadiens strangely changed their defensive pairs completely during the morning skate today, the pairs will remain intact.

Here's what the pairs should look like for tonight's game against the Buffalo Sabres:

It's also worth noting that Quebec native Samuel Montembeault will be in net tonight, as reported earlier today.

It should be an exciting second matchup in three nights between Montreal and Buffalo!