- Alex Prewitt: Capitals Alex Ovechkin left practice early for precautionary reasons with an upper-body tweak.
- Farhan Lalji: Canucks Alex Burrows is expected to be in the lineup tonight.
- Ansar Khan: Red Wings Brenden Smith (infected hand) likely won’t get clearance for tomorrow.
- Ansar Khan: Red Wings Pavel Datsyk will determine after tomorrow’s morning skate if he’ll play or not.
- Erik Erlendsson: Lightning’s Victor Hedman practiced again in a no-contact jersey today. Coach Jon Cooper said that Hedman is out tomorrow. He’s “out-ish” for Saturday and should be day-to-day by next week.
- Chuck Gormley: Capitals Mike Green didn’t practice today.
- Seth Rorabaugh: The Penguins held Beau Bennett out of practice today due to a lower-body injury.
- Lou Korac: Blue lines: Lindstrom-Stastny-Backes Steen-Berglund-Oshie Schwartz-Lehtera-Tarasenko Ott-Lapierre-Reaves.
- Mark Stepneski: Stars lines: Roussel-Spezza-Seguin; Garbutt-Eakin-Sceviour; Benn-Fiddler-Hemsky; Moen-Horcoff-Eaves. Defensive pairings: Goligoski-Klingberg; Daley-Demers; Jokipakka-Oleksiak.
- Bryan Burns: Lightning lines: Callahan-Stamkos-Killorn; Palat-Johnson-Kucherov; Drouin-Filppula-Connolly.
- George Richards: Panthers lines: huberdeau-bjug-pirri; bergenheim-barkov-boyes; jokinen-TROCHECK-hayes; flash-kopecky-thornton
- Paul Hendrick: Leafs lines: JVR-Bozak-kessel Komarov-Kadri-Santorelli Winnik-holland-clarkson Booth-smith-lupul Extras: Panik/kozun
- Michael Smith: Hurricanes lines: Tlusty-E. Staal Semin Gerbe-Nash-Lindholm Skinner-Rask-Nestrasil Boychuk-McClement-Dwyer.
- Gary Lawless: Michael Hutchinson will start in net for the Jets. Ondrej Pavelec will start tomorrow.
- Eric Stephens: Frederik Andersen will start in net tonight.
- Lou Korac: Robin Lehner will start in net for the Senators.
- Edmonton Oilers: Viktor Fasth will start in net for the Oilers.
- Jon Rosen: Martin Jones will start in net for the Kings.
- Tom Gulitti: Cory Schneider will start in net for the Devils again Ryan Miller and the Canucks.
- Ansar Khan: Jimmy Howard will start in net for the Red Wings tomorrow.