Afternoon Hits: Injuries, Scratches, Lines and Some Starting Goalies
Afternoon Hits: Injuries, Scratches, Lines and Some Starting Goalies
Tracey Myers : Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said that Patrick Kane could start skating “as early as tomorrow.”
Andy Strickland : Blues Alex Steen (upper-body) and Barrett Jackman (lower-body) are day-to-day. Their injuries are not serious, but they won’t play tonight.
Ansar Khan : Red Wings Daniel Alfredsson didn’t skate today and looking unlikely that he’ll play tomorrow. Hasn’t been on the ice since Sunday.
Sam Carchidi : Flyers Kimmo Timonen will be back in the lineup tonight. He could have returned on Tuesday but they game him the extra rest.
Ken Wiebe : Looking like Devin Setoguchi will be a healthy scratch for the fourth time in the last five games.
Michael Smith : Hurricanes not at practice: Alex Semin (illness), Jiri Tlusty (upper-body) and Ron Hainsey .
Aaron Portzline : Blue Jackets lines: Jenner – Johansen – Letestu; Calvert – Dubinsky – Atkinson; Foligno – Anisimov – Umberger; Comeau – MacKenzie – Boll.
Ansar Khan : Red Wings lines: Nyquist-Legwand-Franzen, Tatar-Sheahan-Jurco, Miller-Glendening-Andersson/Bertuzzi.
Katie Carrera : Capitals lines: Grabovski-Backstrom-Ovi; Johansson-Beagle-Brouwer; Chimera-Fehr-Ward; Penner-Kuznetsov-Wilson. Volpatti extra. Defensive pairings : Alzner-Carlson; Orlov-Green; Erskine-Carrick.
Michael Smith : Hurricanes lines: Loktionov-E. Staal-Terry, Gerbe-J. Staal-Dwyer, Skinner-Nash-Lindholm, ??-Malhotra-Dvorak.
Pierre LeBrun : Flyers Steve Mason will battle Blue Jackets Sergei Bobrovsky tonight.
