Pilut injured and Scandella returns
Brian Koziol: Buffalo Sabres defenseman Lawrence Pilut is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
John Vogl: Sabres defenseman Marco Scandella returned to the lineup after missing the past eight games.
Klefbom has surgery
John Shannon: Edmonton Oilers defenseman Oscar Klefbom will be out for six to eight weeks after having surgery on his finger.
Koivu could return on Tuesday and no update on Dumba
Sarah McLellan: Minnesota Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said that Mikko Koivu could return on Tuesday against the Sharks.
Minnesota Wild: Coach Boudreau doesn’t have an update on defenseman Matt Dumba yet: “I don’t have one. I haven’t talked to him yet. We’ll have a better idea on Monday.”
Hall not traveling
Amanda Stein: New Jersey Devils forward Taylor Hall isn’t traveling with the team.
Letang day-to-day
Pittsburgh Penguins: Coach Mike Sullivan on Kris Letang: “He is not going to play tonight. He is day-to-day with a lower-body injury… It could have been a lot worse. We’re going to take it each day as it comes. We have other capable guys that can fill in. We have to help each other.”
Edmundson dealing with a hand issue
Lou Korac: St. Louis Blues defenseman Joel Edmundson had missed their previous two games with a hand injury. He was also banged up in a few places and said that the week off “should be good for my body.”
Haula confirms Haula knee surgery
David Schoen of the Las Vegas Review-Journal: Vegas Golden Knights GM George McPhee confirmed that forward Erik Haula had right knee surgery last month.
Haula was injured on November 6th against the Maple Leafs.
A timetable for Haula’s return is still not known.
“It’s really hard to know,” McPhee said. “It’s going to be some months, but we don’t know because it’s just such a different injury than any of us have seen before.”