Quick Hits: Injuries, Lines and Starting Goalies
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lou Korac: Robin Lehner will start in net for the Senators.
  • 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.