- Kevin McGran: The Maple Leafs have hired Mark Hunter as their Director of Player Personnel. Chris Johnston: Hunter will oversee their pro and amateur scouting departments.
- Stephen Whyno: Martin Brodeur won’t play for Team Canada at the Deutschland Cup. Chris Mason and Sebastian Caron will be their goalies.
- Joe Smith: The Lightning recall Mike Blunden and put Radko Gudas on the IR.
- Bill Roose: Pavel Datsyuk will be back in the Wings lineup.
- Michael Smith: Hurricanes John Michael-Liles has been cleared for contact.
- Michael Smith: Jeff Skinner and Andrej Sekera will be in the Hurricanes lineup. Ryan Murphy will play on the wing and on the point on the power play. Liles won’t be in the lineup.
- Herb Gould: Blackhawks Corey Crawford is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
- Daniel Friedman: There is a good chance that Travis Hamonic will be in the Islanders lineup. They are still evaluating Lubomir Visnovsky.
- Scott Powers: Blackhawks lines: Sharp-Toews-Hossa, Versteeg-Shaw-Kane, Bickell-Richards-Saad, Carcillo-Kruger-Smith.
- Brad Zimmer: Stars lines: Benn-Spezza-Seguin; Roussel-Eakin-Garbutt; McKenzie-Fiddler-Hemsky; Cole-Horcoff-Sceviour. Defensive pairings: Goligoski-Daley, Jordie Benn-Dillon, Oleksiak-Connauton.
- Nicholas Goss: Bruins lines: Lucic-Krejci-Griffith, Marchand-Bergeron-Smith, Kelly-Soderberg-Eriksson, Paille-Campbell-Gagne, Fraser
- Michael Smith: Hurricanes lines: Tlusty-Nash-Semin Skinner-Rask-Lindholm Terry-McClement-Boychuk Malone-Brown-Murphy. Defensive pairings: Sekera-Faulk Harrison-Gleason Hainsey-Bellemore
- David Pollak: Antti Niemi will start in net for the Sharks.
- Herb Gould: Antti Raanta will start in net for the Blackhawks.
- Michael Smith: Anton Khudobin will start in net for the Hurricanes.
- Craig Morgan: Devan Dubnyk will start in net for the Coyotes.
- Steve Goldstein: Roberto Luongo will start in net for the Panthers.