- Chuck Gormley: Capitals Brooks Orpik is dealing with a lower-body injury and Mike Green is dealing with an upper-body injury. Alex Prewitt: Green is considered day-to-day.
- Erik Erlendsson: Lightning’s Ondrej Palat left last night’s game with a lower-body injury. Head coach Jon Cooper said that he took a puck off the foot. He added that they took “pictures” of it and they appeared to be negative. Palat will be re-evaluated today.
- George Richards: Panthers Roberto Luongo will work out before practice today, and if he feels good, he’ll join the team for practice.
- Mike Chambers: Avs Semyon Varlamov is day-to-day with a groin injury.
- Colorado Avalanche: Joey Hishon is day-to-day with an elbow injury.
- Jim Matheson: Oilers Nikita Nikitin should return later this week from his sore shoulder.
- Andy Strickland: Blues Zbynek Michalek skated during their optional skate yesterday. He’s been cleared, but there is no timetable for his return.
- Lou Korac: Blues Olli Jokinen could have played last night according to Ken Hitchcock, but they wanted to give him another practice or two.
- Jeremy Rutherford: Blues Kevin Shattenkirk took part in their optional skate yesterday – in the non-competitive team drills. Andy Strickland: On Thursday it will be five weeks since Shattenkirk had his surgery.
- John Vogl: Sabres Zach Bogosian practiced yesterday after leaving Saturday’s game with a foot injury. Both Bogosian and Andrej Meszaros say they can play tonight against the Maple Leafs. Coach Ted Nolan hasn’t decided if they will play yet.
- Sam Carchidi: Flyers Nicklas Grossmann returned after missing four games with a head injury.
- Katie Strang: Islanders Kyle Okposo returned last night. He’s playing for the first time since having eye surgery for his detached retina.
- Adam Kimelman of NHL.com: Stars Tyler Seguin returned to the lineup, but admitted that he’s not 100 percent.
“It’s kind of at the point where it’s going to stay this way and in two or three months it’ll be back to normal,” he said. “Until then it’s definitely not anywhere near 100 percent. But you do what you can. … It’s pretty much do or die every night. I think a lot of guys at this point in the year in the League are playing through stuff; mine is just a little bit more publicly known, you can see it . Try to do what you can to help the team. I think I can be more helpful in the lineup at 60, 70 percent than sitting in the stands not playing at all.”
