Tracey Myers: Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Seth Jones practiced for the primary time since November 14th when he injured his foot.
Ansar Khan: Detroit Purple Wings defenseman Simon Edvinsson (upper-body) didn’t skate yesterday.
- Detroit Purple Wings: Coach Derek Lalonde stated that Edvinsson received’t play this weekend.
Jameson Olive: Florida Panthers ahead Jesper Boqvist is day-to-day. Coach Paul Maurice: “He was in figuring out this morning. We simply need to make it possible for there’s nothing lingering there.”
Jessi Pierce: Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson and ahead Joel Eriksson Ek had been on the ice yesterday however each didn’t go well with up final night time. Gustavsson’s missed the previous two video games with a lower-body harm. Eriksson Ek is week-to-week with a lower-body harm that’s held him out of the previous seven video games.
“ daily,” coach John Hynes stated. “He skated the final couple days. He’s going to skate once more as we speak. He is not going to play tomorrow . He’ll skate tomorrow after which we’ll see the place he goes from there.
“ taking that subsequent step. He’s been skating. First staff skates now, so we’ll see how he responds, but it surely appears to be like like each guys are clearly progressing in a constructive means.”
Andrew Gross: New York Islanders ahead Anthony Duclair was getting some energy play reps. One other good signal that he’ll return to the lineup tonight.
Stefen Rosner: Islanders goaltender Semyon Varlamov was positioned on the LTIR retroactive to December third with a lower-body harm.
Defenseman Mike Reilly began skating. He suffered a concussion on November 1st and in addition went by a coronary heart process.
TSN: Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube stated that ahead Auston Matthews remains to be dealing the upper-body harm that saved him out for 9 video games. He missed their morning skate yesterday.
“Nicely it’s robust. I imply, he’s preventing by it and he’s doing, you realize, he’s doing a reasonably good job on the market on the ice,” Berube advised reporters. “Like he’s producing and enjoying exhausting and dealing and, you realize, we simply received to handle it… , it’ll get higher. We simply received to handle it although. And that’s why he’s off the ice as we speak.”
Tarik El-Bashir: Washington Capitals ahead Alex Ovechkin has been cleared for contact however he received’t play till after the Christmas break.
Tom Gulitti: Capitals ahead Lars Eller received’t play till after the Christmas break resulting from an sickness. He was positioned on the IR retroactive to Tuesday.
Ken Wiebe: Winnipeg Jets defenseman Logan Stanley blocked a shot on Wednesday and we’ll be out till after the vacation break.
Jets ahead David Gustafsson missed Friday resulting from an sickness.
