• Pat Leonard of the NY Daily News: The Rangers have 25 players left at camp and will cut that number to 22 by their season opener next Wednesday. Dylan McIlrath and Raphael Diaz are battling for the seventh defenseman spot. Emerson Etem and Tanner Glass appear to be battling for the 13th forward. Jayson Megna is still on their roster, but didn’t play on Monday and isn’t expected to play tonight. Viktor Stalberg and Oscar Lindberg have unofficially made the team.

• Tom Gulitti of The Record: Pavel Zacha will only be on the Devils opening night roster if they feel he is NHL ready or “really close.” They won’t keep him around just to gain some experience before returning junior.
  

  “That nine-game window is important,” Hynes said. “It’s really player specific in a sense that if they’re really close to making the team and you have to make a pretty solid decision, then there’s big value there because you get those extra games, regular season games, which is different. So, there is huge value to that.

  “If it’s keeping someone just to keep him and give him the experience, that’s a different situation. That’s not developmentally good for the guys.”

• Chris Hine of the Chicago Tribune: Antti Raanta played 14 games last season for the Blackhawks, he spent a day with the Cup, but the team didn’t put his name on the Cup. A Finnish report said Raanta told them he was rooting against the Blackhawks after he lost his backup job – Raanta denied the report.

• Dave Isaac of the Courier Post: Michael Raffl and Sean Courturier missed practice yesterday with “upper-body injuries.” Michal Neuvirth was given a maintenance day after leaving Monday’s morning skate early, but is expected to be ready for tonight. Matt Read said he’s been dealing with a charley horse.

• Chuck Gormley of CSN Mid Atlantic: In the next couple of days, Capitals Nicklas Backstrom (hip) and Brooks Orpik (wrist) could be cleared for non-contract practices.
  

  “I don’t have the authority to make that decision, but it looks like it’s getting closer to that,” Trotz said. “Backy has been skating very well in controlled conditions and once you get into practice you’ve got to avoid people a little bit and we have to see how he reacts to that.”

  Marcus Johansson (back) and Michael Latta (lower-body) are expected to return tonight. Chris Brown is expected to miss a few weeks with a hand injury.

• Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Blues defenseman Carl Gunnarsson is listed as day-to-day with a groin injury he suffered on Monday. Robert Bortuzzo (lower-body) and Jori Lehtera are expected to return tomorrow.

• Robert Tychkowski of the Edmonton Sun: The Oilers will be without right winger Jordan Eberle for four to six weeks with a shoulder injury. Eberle could miss as many as 16 games.
  

  “It wasn’t anything big, just kind of a small hit,” he said. “I was trying to keep the play alive, reaching for the puck and kind of just folded my shoulder over.

  “I knew something was wrong and got back to the bench. I was definitely in a lot of discomfort and pain.”

  Surgery isn’t required at this time.

• Tim Panaccio of CSN Philly: Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth had been icing his knee all week, and may have re-aggravated it last night in the second period – he was pulled for precautionary reasons. GM Ron Hextall said they think he’ll be fine for the start of the season next Thursday. The Flyers still have Jason LaBarbera in camp and he doesn’t have to clear waivers to be sent down. The Flyers are at 25 players in camp, so they’ll have to cut at least one more skater.

• Rich Chere of the NJ.com: Devils Kyle Palmieri suffered an injury in the second period of last night’s game. Head coach John Hynes isn’t worried.
  

  “As of now, no. But we have to figure out more after we talk to the trainers,” Hynes said.

  “He’s just got a little minor tweak right now. We didn’t want him to finish the game, just rest up,” Hynes explained.

• Chuck Gormley: Capitals coach Barry Trotz didn’t rule Brooks Orpik (wrist) out of their last preseason game on Sunday.

• Chuck Gormley: Trotz said there is no timetable for Nicklas Backstrom’s return and they won’t risk it rushing him back.

• Eric Stephens: Ducks Korbinian Holzer hasn’t been seen on the ice since he suffered a head injury from a Frazer McLaren hit.

• Dhrien Mahiban: Pavel Datsyuk’s agent said Datsyuk is expected to start skating in two to four weeks and will return to the lineup in five to six weeks.

The Blue Jackets have fired head coach Todd Richards and hired John Tortorella. The Blue Jackets now owe the Canucks a second round pick.

• Pierre LeBrun: Compensation rule: It is a second round draft pick for ‘in-season’ hiring of a Coach/GM/President of Hockey Operations. A third round pick if it occurs in the ‘offseason.’
• Chris Johnston: Compensation is more for in-season hires as the team presumably then has to then go out and hire someone new.
• Pierre LeBrun: The Blue Jackets have until June 1st to decided if the second round pick in is 2016, 2017 or 2018.
• Bob McKenzie: Tortorella’s deal with the Blue Jackets is for this year, and two more years – what he had left on his Canucks deal. The Canucks are paying some of his contract.
• Pierre LeBrun: It is the same term and money that was left on the Canucks, who are paying a post of it.
• Cap Friendly: If the above is the case, Tortorella will get $2 million a year – he signed a five-year, $10 million contract with the Canucks in 2013.
• Elliotte Friedman: Negotiation with Tortorella started yesterday. He was hired approximately at 1:30 am.
• Brian Lawton: “You can & would think CBJ GM would call 1st to say we want to interview……but only if you will take less than 2nd”

Roster/Injury Notes ….

• Renaud Lavoie: On waivers: Bobby Sanguinetti (Buf), Tom Kuhnhackl (Pit) and Karri Ramo (Cgy).
• Dobber Hockey: “If you sign a goalie for $3.8 million you pretty much commit yourself to giving him more than 3 games to earn it. Unless you’re Calgary.”
• Pat Leonard: Tanner Glass cleared waivers and was assigned to the AHL by the Rangers.
• Darren Dreger: Curtis Glencross said that he’s retiring from the NHL. “We have weighed our options and with the young family I’m enjoying a lot of firsts with them.”
• Rich Chere: The Devils have assigned Reid Boucher to the AHL.
• Pittsburgh Penguins: The Penguins have assigned Tim Erixon to the AHL.
• David Alter: Maple Leafs Tyler Bozak wasn’t at their morning skate and will miss tonight’s game against the Sabres.
• David Alter: Maple Leafs Jake Gardiner has an unspecific injury and is day-to-day.
• Nicholas Goss: Bruins coach Claude Julien said that Patrice Bergeron missed their morning skate for personal reasons. Matt Beleskey is out tonight with an upper-body injury.
• Bob Stauffer: Oilers lineup changes: Andrew Ference in for Griffin Reinhart and Anton Slepyshev for Luke Gazdic.

Starting Goalies …

• Sam Carchidi: Michal Neuvirth will start in net for the Flyers against Tuukka Rask and the Bruins.
• Toronto Maple Leafs: Mike Babcock confirms that Jonathan Bernier will start in net tonight.
• Joe Yerdon: Chad Johnson will start in net for the Sabres.
• Brendan Savage: Petr Mrazek will start in net for the Red Wings tonight and on Saturday. Jimmy Howard will start in net on Friday.
• Jack Michaels: Cam Talbot will start in net for the Oilers.
• Colorado Avalanche: Semyon Varlamov will start in net.

On the Lightning …

• Erik Erlendsson of the Tampa Bay Tribune: Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy received clearance for hockey related activities and could start skating with the team as soon as next week. He’s been out since early September with a blood clot. His top left rib was removed after is was discovered that he had a blood vessel that was being pinched between his rib and collarbone. He had been on blood thinners. GM Steve Yzerman is hopeful that Vasilevskiy can start practicing with the team on Monday and go on a rehab assignment in the AHL at some point.

On the Flyers …

• Dave Isaac of the Courier-Post: The Flyers lost both Sean Couturier and Michal Neuvirth to upper-body injuries last night. Couturier didn’t return to the second period after being hit by Zac Rinaldo. Neuvirth was hit by Patrice Bergeron’s stick after he scored.
• Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer: Flyers Brayden Schenn missed last night’s game with a shoulder injury, and is listed as day-to-day.

On the Rangers …

• Andrew Gross: Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said Derek Stepan had a tooth extracted yesterday, but will be ready to play tonight.

On the Blues …

• Tom Timmerman of the St. Louis Post Dispatch: The Blues have put Paul Stastny on the IR with a broken right foot. Stastny will miss at least five weeks.Coach Hitchcock on Stastny’s absence.
  

  “It’s an injury that affects all three aspects of our team, special teams and five on five,” Hitchcock said. “One person is not going to be able to absorb that. We have to find a way to absorb that in our group. … For a little while, you can get by on emotion, but there’s a reality to the situation.”

  Forward Robbie Fabbri has been out since October 10th with a concussion, skated yesterday on his own and could be ready soon. The Blues don’t practice until tomorrow.

  If Fabbri and Kevin Shattenkirk practice on Friday, they could be available for Saturday’s game. Shattenkirk has missed the past four games with a lower-body injury.

On the Penguins …

• Jenn Menendez of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Penguins forward Kevin Porter missed practice yesterday with an undisclosed injury.
  

  “Porter was injured last night in the game. They decided to send him for some tests,” said Johnston. “We’ll get a read to where he’s at.”

On the Blues …

• Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Patrik Berglund skated for an hour on Wednesday and over an hour yesterday. He had offseason shoulder surgery and isn’t scheduled to return until January.
  

  “He looks really good,” Hitchcock said. “I’m no medical doctor, but he looks good. He’s skating hard, he’s shooting pucks. It’s a good sign. He’s got a ways to go yet, but it’s nice to see him back on the ice and able to participate with some of the guys on these skates.”

• Blues Robby Fabbri and Kevin Shattenkirk could return to the lineup tomorrow.

On the Flyers …

• Dave Isaac of the Courier-Post: Flyers Sean Couturier is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
• Flyers Michal Neuvirth is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.

On the Bruins …

• Joe Haggerty: Bruins Matt Beleskey missed practice again yesterday with an upper-body injury, but did travel with the team and could be a possibility against the Islanders.

On the Predators …

• Adam Vingan of The Tennessean: Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis returned to the lineup last night

On the Senators …

• Wayne Scanlan: Senators coach Dave Cameron didn’t provide an update on Mike Hoffman’s lower-body injury.
• Bruce Garrioch: Senators Marc Methot was back at practice yesterday.

On the Penguins …

• DK Pittsburgh Sports: Penguins Pascal Dupuis was cleared to return to the Penguins lineup last night.
• Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Penguins Nick Bonino left last night’s game in the third period after taking an elbow to the nose from Stars defenseman Jason Demers.

Demers gets a major and game misconduct for elbowing Bonino, who was down for a while & left the game pic.twitter.com/B9wgTxCUyn

— Stephanie (@myregularface) October 23, 2015

      On the Sharks …

• Kevin Kurz of CSN Bay Area: Sharks Joe Thornton left last night’s game in the first period with what looked like a head injury. He had trouble standing up, falling over twice. He did return in the second. Coach Pete DeBoer said that he went through concussion protocol and was cleared.

if Thornton did indeed get hurt, this is where it happened pic.twitter.com/xgncdKLvmL — Stephanie (@myregularface) October 23, 2015

On the Wild …

• Michael Russo: Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk has a right knee injury. Dubnyk said it’s sore, but has been told that it can’t get worse by playing. There are no structural issues. He is confident that it won’t be an issue. Dubnyk: “I fully believe that it’s going to be fine going forward. I’m sure I’ll be fine for Tues. It was a tough 18 minutes there in the 2nd”

On the Penguins …

• Dave Molinari of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Penguins Beau Bennett returned to practice yesterday after missing five games with an undisclosed injury that he suffered in a goal celebration.
  

  “I hurt myself celebrating a goal, unfortunately,” the Penguins winger said. “That’s just unlucky. But I’ve learned to keep my arms down and celebrate less, I guess.”

  Eric Fehr is expected to return on Saturday after offseason elbow surgery.

• Seth Rorabaugh of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Penguins Bryan Rust missed yesterday’s practice with an undisclosed injury. He was hit in the right hand or arm on Saturday by a Seth Jones slapshot. Rust could be out long-term.
  

  “Rust is going to be out,” he said. “We haven’t determined a time frame on it but he’s going to be out. It’s not going to be day to day. I should have a probably better time frame on it in the next day or two.”

On the Blue Jackets …

• Shawn Mitchell and Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch: Ryan Johansen left the team on Saturday due to an undisclosed illness. He was hospitalized at least once this offseason with an accelerated heart rate according to a source. This latest illness is not heart related. After he was hospitalize this summer in B.C., the Blue Jackets flew him to Columbus to get checked out.
  

  “They found no issues with his heart,” Kekalainen said.

On the Panthers …

• NHL.com: Panthers forward Aleksander Barkov will be out indefinitely with a broken hand. He was hit with the puck on Thursday.

On the Flyers …

• Bill Meltzer: The Flyers put Michal Neuvirth on the IR on Saturday. He’ll need to be on the IR for at least Tuesday’s game.
• Dave Isaac: Neuvirth was on the ice yesterday morning.

On the Flames …

• Wes Gilbertson: Flames Micheal Ferland is week-to-week with a sprained knee.
• Wes Gilbertson: Flames T.J. Brodie (hand) is skating, but is not shooting that much. Don’t expect him to be back for at least a few more games.

On the Oilers …

• Mark Spector: The Oilers put Jordan Eberle (shoulder) on the LTIR.
• Bob Stauffer: Eberle and Matt Hendricks were skating with the main group at practice yesterday.
• Bob Stauffer: Eberle is on schedule and hasn’t had any set-backs. Put on the LTIR for salary cap reasons.

On the Coyotes ..

• Sarah McLellan of the Arizona Republic: Antoine Vermette (lower-body) practiced with the team yesterday. He’s missed the past three games. Martin Hanzal skated before practice. Both will be re-evaluated this morning.
  

  “Both of them, it’d be ideal to get them back,” Tippett said. “We’ll see. The factor with us is going to be we’ve got five more days after this off. We’ll play that by ear. Neither of them we’re going to put into trouble if we think there’s a possibility of injuring things further. But if they can play, they’ll play and it’ll certainly help.”

On the Sharks …

• Kevin Kurz of CSN Bay Area: Logan Couture’s recovery is on track. He had surgery on his fractured right fibula on October 17th. He’s expected to miss four to six weeks.

On the Blue Jackets …

• Shawn Mitchell: Coach John Tortorella is expecting Ryan Johansen to return the lineup tonight, barring any setbacks.
• Shawn Mitchell: Brandon Saad didn’t travel with the team to Washington and is out with an illness.

On the Flyers …

• Matt Breen of the Philadelphia Inquirer: The Flyers activated Michal Neuvirth from the IR and returned Jason LaBarbera to the AHL.

On the Senators …

• Ottawa Senators: Coach Dave Cameron said that Mike Hoffman won’t play tonight, but could return on Saturday. Curtis Lazar remains out, but is “progressing.”
• Bruce Garrioch: Lazar is working his way back and is going through the normal concussion protocol.

On the Panthers …

• George Richards of the Miami Herald: Jaromir Jagr status for tonight is not known yet.
  

  “We’ll see what happens,” said Jagr, who said he felt pain in his ribs which led to painful breathing.

  “I was feeling good early, then it got sore. Every 24 hours makes a huge difference. My side is kind of off, it’s not just my leg. I don’t know if I got hit or something.”

  Jagr has been bothered by something for the past week. Coach Gerard Gallant said he’s been bothered by a groin/hip issue.

  “I’ll go in morning skate and see what happens. I haven’t been able to skate but I was still scoring, so I wanted to keep playing. At least I could help the team somehow. Then I went for acupuncture and the pain was a lot less but my muscles kind of got weaker. I had no support on that side so I had to leave. If I kept playing, I think it was going to get worse and then you’re looking at three weeks.”

On the Maple Leafs …

• Jonas Siegel: Tyler Bozak and Jake Gardiner both practiced yesterday.
• Paul Hendrick: Nick Spaling started practice with the main group yesterday, but left after 15 minutes.

On the Bruins …

• Fluto Shinzawa: Dennis Seidenberg was practicing yesterday. Kevan Miller didn’t.

On the Sabres …

• Sabres PR: Sabres Tyler Ennis missed last night’s game with a lower-body injury.

On the Islanders …

• David Satriano: Ryan Strome missed last night’s game with an illness.

On the Lightning …

• Chris Nichols of Today’s Slapshot: Agent Don Meehan on TSN 1050 on the contract situation between Steven Stamkos and the Lightning.
  

  “Well, I think although it may not be the norm, it’s not unprecedented. We had a client, Corey Perry, who ended up signing in his last year as well and Ryan Getzlaf, one of this teammates, did the same thing. Very, very substantial players. Very important to their team.

  “We have a great rapport and an excellent professional relationship with Steve Yzerman and these are some issues that Steven and I dealt with at the end of the year. That we’ve talked about. All that we’re really doing at this point in time is taking a little bit more time.

  “But we’re engaged with Steve Yzerman. And as I say, we have a great relationship with him. And when you get to a point in a career where you have professional decisions to make like this – as you know, the Collective Bargaining Agreement doesn’t really afford you this kind of opportunity that often. And the Collective Bargaining Agreement is a give and take process, and it’s something that you – for this kind of a decision and this kind of player, I really think that you have to practice due diligence to the nth degree.”

On the Rangers …

• Justin Tasch of the NY Daily News: Defenseman Dan Boyle was scratched last week so that Dylan McIlrath could get a chance to prove himself. It might be something Boyle has to get use. It has been difficult for him.
  

  “Of course, yeah,” said Boyle, who will play tonight against Carolina at the Garden.

  Coach Alain Vigneault has spoken with Boyle, and GM Jeff Gorton has spoken with Boyle’s agent.

  “So he’s aware of it,” said Vigneault, who says he’ll do what’s best for the club. “I didn’t expect him to be happy about it and cheery about it, but human nature is that at 39, he’ll probably need a bit more rest and we need to be smart with him, and that’s what I’m trying to do.”

  Boyle carries a $4.5 million on his 35-and-over deal and is likely untradeable.

On the Flyers …

• Tim Riday of CSN Philly: Steve Mason is 2-4-2 with a .902 SV percentage and 3.34 GAA. Michal Neuvirth is 3-2-1 with a .945 SV percentage and 1.81 GAA with three shutouts.
  

  “Mase is our No. 1,” the usually reserved head coach said of Steve Mason after Monday’s practice session at the Skate Zone. “We’ve said that all the way along and feel that way.”

On the Penguins …

• Bob McKenzie: Olli Maatta remained in hospital over night. No update on his status just yet.
• Dave Molinari: There is no indication that Maatta does have damage to any of his internal organs.

• not very good replays on Maatta’s injury pic.twitter.com/Hy0xVgyKdl

  — Stephanie (@myregularface) November 18, 2015

On the Islanders …

• Arthur Staple: No update yesterday on Mikhail Grabovski and his upper-body injury.

On the Lightning …

• Joe Smith: Tyler Johnson, Jonathan Drouin and Cedric Paquette are all considered day-to-day. More could be known at practice today. Yesterday was an off day.

On the Coyotes …

• Sarah McLellan: Defenseman Nicklas Grossmann won’t play tomorrow. Coach Dave Tippett: “He’s still coming, still day-to-day, but he’s moving in the right direction.”

On the Flyers …

• Tim Panaccio: Goaltender Michal Neuvirth is out day-to-day with an upper-body injury.

On the Sabres …

• John Vogl: Evander Kane: “I’m ahead of the schedule they set, behind the one I set. … I felt good.” He should be ready to go soon.

On the Maple Leafs …

• Jonas Siegel: Nick Spaling missed last night’s game with an injury. Mike Babcock said that he wasn’t able to make many faceoffs on Sunday because of the injury.

On the Blues …

• Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Jori Lehtera was high sticked in the mouth, then left the game later in the first after taking a Brandon Saad high stick.
  

  “We’re not sure,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We’ll evaluate him and tell you (Wednesday).”

  David Backes said the stick was to the throat area.

  “It was stick in the throat. Hopefully he’ll be all right and we won’t be missing another high-end forward. Whatever happens, we’ve got to move forward. We’ve got another tough game Thursday.”

  Rookie defenseman Colton Parayko missed last night’s game with a lower-body injury.

Goalie market for an expansion draft …

Allan Muir of SI: Muir thinks that if the NHL expands, there could be a bunch of trades as teams put together their protected list for an expansion draft.

With teams potentially only being able to protect one goalie, goalies that could become available could include Frederik Andersen (ANA), Mike Smith (ARI), Malcolm Subban (BOS), Semyon Varlamov (COL), Antti Niemi and Jack Campbell (DAL); Jimmy Howard (DET), Laurent Brossoit (EDM), Darcy Kuemper (MIN), Mike Condon (MON), J-F Berube (NYI), MacKenzie Skapski (NYR), Andrew Hammond (OTT), Marc-André Fleury (PIT), Philipp Grubauer (WSH), Ondrej Pavelec and Michael Hutchinson (WPG).

That list doesn’t contain goalies who could be UFAs after next season – Scott Darling (CHI), Steve Mason and Michal Neuvirth (PHI) and Brian Elliott (STL).

Could also see teams make side deals to not select a player. Example could be the Capitals offering a draft pick and a contract like Brooks Orpik to not select Grubauer.

On the Minnesota Wild …

Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal: This offseason, the Wild will look again at trading a defenseman for a center. There has already been the Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for Jonas Brodin rumor. A shoulder injury to Wild prospect Gustav Olafsson could throw a wrench into a trade. Olafsson is bigger than Brodin, has a harder shot and is NHL ready.

On the Edmonton Oilers …

Jonathan Willis of the Edmonton Journal: Though he hasn’t been great for the Oilers since being acquired from the Canadiens, the Oilers should re-sign Zack Kassian to a one-year contract extension. A qualifying offer would cost the Oilers $2 million.

Jonathan Willis of Oilers Nation: What the Oilers should do with their pending free agents.

Re-sign: Zack Kassian, Iiro Pakarinen, Jordan Oesterle and David Musil.

Don’t re-sign: Nikita Nikitin, Adam Miller, Brad Hunt, Ryan Hamilton, Adam Cracknell, Niklas Lundstrom, Luke Gazdic, Tyler Pitlick, Adam Clendening and Kale Kessy.

Depends on contract terms: Eric Gryba and Adam Pardy

On the Colorado Avalanche …

• Adrian Dater: Nathan MacKinnon will have an MRI on Monday.

On the Montreal Canadiens …

• Renaud Lavoie: If things go according to plan, P.K. Subban will be back next week.

On the Los Angeles Kings …

• Jon Rosen: Kris Versteeg left last night’s game with an apparent leg injury after blocking a shot. More will be known today.

On the Arizona Coyotes …

• Craig Morgan: Oliver Ekman-Larsson traveled with the team to San Jose. Coach Dave Tippett:  “We’ll see how he is in the morning.”

On the Philadelphia Flyers …

• Adam Kimelman: GM Ron Hextall said they will know more today on if Michal Neuvirth is sick or injured.

On the Columbus Blue Jackets …

• Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch: Goalie Curtis McElhinney injured his knee in practice on Friday and will be out for the rest of the season. He’ll have arthroscopic knee surgery tomorrow.

On the Tampa Bay Lightning …

• Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times: Valtteri Filppula has been out with an upper-body injury. He practiced in a no-contact jersey yesterday. Coach Jon Cooper said he won’t play on Tuesday, but next Friday or Saturday is a possibility.
  

  “It’s encouraging to see him out there,” Cooper said. “Baby steps, but we thought it might be weeks away and now maybe it’s not going to be that.”

On the San Jose Sharks …

• Kevin Kurz of CSN Bay Area: Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Matt Nieto missed yesterday’s game, but neither is expected to be out long-term.
  

  “I would term them day-to-day, but not available today,” DeBoer said on Saturday morning.

  Coach Pete DeBoer yesterday.

  “Any time he’s out, you’re concerned. He’s a key guy for us,” DeBoer said. “I guess the silver lining, it’s better now than three or four weeks from now. The good news is it’s not long term. He will be back.”

  Nieto will likely be out longer than Vlasic, but he’ll be ready before the end of the regular season.

On the Anaheim Ducks …

• Eric Stephens: Bruce Boudreau didn’t have an update on David Perron after the game. Not known if Perron needs an MRI, will travel with the team to Montreal or head back to Anaheim.

• Eric Stephens: Nate Thompson missed is fourth straight game with a lower body injury. Boudreau thinks that Thompson should be able to play at some point on their trip.

On the Toronto Maple Leafs …

• Rob Longley of Toronto Sun: Nikita Soshnikov is out with an upper-body injury. Leo Komarov has missed the past two games and will return tonight. Tyler Bozak practice again yesterday, but likely won’t come back until Thursday. Peter Holland has an upper-body injury and is out a little longer. Brooks Laich has been out for ‘personal matters’ and is expected back on Thursday.

On the San Jose Sharks …

• Paul Gackle: Matt Nieto is expected to be out for three to four weeks with a broken knuckle in his right hand.

On the Philadelphia Flyers …

• Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer: Michal Neuvirth will be out three weeks with a lower-body injury. The injury is thought to be his knee. The Flyers are still in the playoff hunt with 12 games remaining. The Flyers have recalled Anthony Stolarz.

On the Florida Panthers …

• George Richards: Willie Mitchell isn’t flying with the team to New York, but he could join the later at some point on their trip.

On the New Jersey Devils …

• Mike Morreale of NHL.com: Cory Schneider could return to practice at some point this week. He’s been out since March 4th with a sprained MCL.
  

  “[Sunday] was his first day he actually took shots and that went fairly well,” Hynes said. “We’re by no means going to rush him back but he is on a normal track like any other player would be to hopefully progress into a practice situation this week. We’ll see where it goes from there.”

On the Buffalo Sabres …

• John Vogl of the Buffalo News: Robin Lehner missed his second straight game on Saturday with an ankle injury. They are hoping to avoid surgery.
  

  “That’s not necessarily the case for Robin at all,” the coach said. “Just rest and rehab right now and strengthening. There will be an evaluation a little bit later in the week next week.”

On the Winnipeg Jets …

• Sara Orlesky: Mathieu Perreault is out indefinitely with a concussion.

On the Vancouver Canucks …

• Vancouver Canucks: Brandon Sutter is done for the season.

• Jeff Paterson: Dan Hamhuis wanted to take his jaw protector off his helmet last week, but doctors said no. He’ll wear the protector for the remainder of the season.

• Ben Kuzma: Derek Dorsett (upper-body) will go on the Canucks three-game road trip.

On the Philadelphia Flyers …

• Tim Panaccio: Michal Neuvirth had a MRI yesterday and it was discovered that he has a meniscus tear in his left knee. He could be able to return for the playoffs.

On the Anaheim Ducks …

• Eric Stephens of the OC Register: David Perron suffered a shoulder injury and will be out week-to-week. Perron was trying to make a hit, but lost his balance and crashed into the boards. He’ll be traveling back to Southern California to have a MRI.
  

  “I don’t know how bad it is but I assume it’s week-to-week,” Boudreau said after practice at Bell Sports Complex. “We’re on the road for eight more days. I’ve got to believe it’s week-to-week at this point.

  “He’s out for the trip. If he’s going to go home, he’s not going to come back. It’d be lovely if he could and meet us in Edmonton or something but I’m not counting on it.”

  Nate Thompson (lower-body) didn’t skate yesterday. He likely won’t play this week, but they are hoping he’ll be ready for Saturday.

On the Buffalo Sabres …

• John Vogl of the Buffalo News: Tyler Ennis suffered a concussion on December 30th. He skated again on his own yesterday and they are hopeful that he could get back before the end of the season.
  

  “Tyler’s doing quite well, is improving,” coach Dan Bylsma said. “Worked out and skated this morning, so he’s doing better and better and the hopes of maybe moving in a positive direction in the next seven days.”

  Jack Eichel will travel with the team on their road trip. He didn’t play on Saturday and missed yesterday’s practice with the flu or food poisoning.

  Also missing practice yesterday were Cody Franson (concussion), Robin Lehner (ankle) and Jason Kasdorf (groin). Lehner won’t be going on their road trip.

  “Resting, recovering, rehabbing, working out off the ice in his spot right now,” Byslma said. “We just want to take it slow. You’re dealing with the continuing of the ankle sprain. He could tape it up and try to skate today and see how the tweak goes or see where it’s at, but really kind of taking a full rest and recovery for it.”

Top 10 NHL Free Agent Signings Of The 2015 Off-Season

While teams are generally forced to overpay in free agency – significantly in many cases – every year there are a handful of players who sign contracts favorable to their new team.

Whether it being a player taking less money and/or term to sign with a contender, a team buying low on a player or anything in between there were plenty of good contracts signed prior to the 2015-16 season.

Taking into account value of the contract, cap hit and length here are the top-10 NHL free agent signings from the 2015 offseason.

Artemi Panarin would be a top free agent signing from last year, but he signed on April 29th and not in the offseason, so we excluded him from the list.