- Sam Carchidi via twitter: The trade deadline day will be April 3rd.
- Michael Russo via twitter: The NHL and NHLPA are hoping to sign the Memo of Understanding today. Bill Daly: “The lockout won’t be lifted & nothing happens unless or until MOU is signed”
- James Mirtle via twitter: Brian Burke will give a press conference at noon at the ACC.
- Chris Johnston via twitter: The Ducks have hired Scott Niedermayer as an assistant coach.
- Larry Brooks via twitter: The Rangers will have their physicals on Sunday morning and then are scheduled to be on the ice in the afternoon. Only if the CBA paperwork is complete.
- Aaron Portzline via twitter: Teams were given clearance to start doing physicals .
- Bob McKenzie via twitter: 26 underaged players who have been submitted by teams to attend camp are: “ANA (Rakell/Gibson), BOS (Hamilton), BUF (Grigorenko), CAR (Murphy), COL (Siemens), CBJ (Jenner), DAL (Ritchie/Faksa), EDM (RNH/Yakupov), FLA (Huberdeau), MIN (Dumba), MTL (Galchenyuk), NJD (Matteau), NYI (Strome/Reinhart), OTT (Noesen/Ceci), PHI (Laughton), SJS (DeMelo), TOR (Rielly/Broll), VAN (Corrado), WSH (Wilson), WPG (Scheifele).” Teams have until January 18th to return the underaged juniors or they must be put the NHL roster. If an underager plays 6 games this year, they burn a year of their contract.