Quick Hits: Waivers, Lightning, Capitals and Line Combos

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Quick Hits: Waivers, Lightning, Capitals and Line Combos

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Renaud Lavoie: The Coyotes put Chris Summers and Brandon McMillan on waivers. The Predators put Mark Arcobello on waivers.

Bryan Burns: Lightning coach Jon Cooper said that Tyler Johnson is “day-to-day” and Victor Hedman is “day-ish”. Both will not play tonight.

Alex Prewitt: Capitals coach Barry Trotz said that John Erskin is still rehabbing his surgically repaired neck and is “probably four to six away from skating.”

Chuck Gormley: The Capitals recall defenseman Steve Oleksy.

Steve Zipay: Rangers lines: Kreider-Stepan-MSL; Zuke-Brass-Nash; Hagelin-Hayes-Fast; Miller-Moore-Stempniak. Defensive pairings: McD-G; Staal-Boyle; Moore-Klein.

Chad Graff: Wild lines: Parise-Koivu-Pominville Vanek-Haula-Fontaine Zucker-Coyle-Niederreiter Cooke-Brodziak-Carter.

Mark Stepneski: Stars lines: Benn-Seguin-Ritchie; Cole-Spezza-Hemsky; Roussel-Eakin-Garbutt; Horcoff-Fiddler-Sceviour/Moen. Defensive pairings: Goligoski-Klingberg; Schlemko-Daley; Benn-Demers. Oleksiak rotating in.

Tom Gulitti: Devils lines: Henrique-Gomez-Bernier; Elias-Zajac-Havlat; Zubrus-Cammalleri-Ryder; Whitney-Sestito/Josefson-Tootoo.

Mark Divver: Bruins lines: Marchand-Krejci-Pastrnak Lucic-Bergeron-Paille Smith-Soderberg-Eriksson Kelly-Campbell-Cunningham/Caron. Nicholas Goss: Defensive pairings: Chara-Hamilton Seidenberg-McQuaid Krug-Miller Bartkowski is the extra.

Jason Mackey: Penguins lines: Kunitz-Crosby-Perron Spaling-Malkin-Bennett Rust-Sutter-Downie Sill-Goc-Adams. Defensive pairings: Martin-Bortuzzo Ehrhoff-Letang Scuderi-Despres-Chorney.

Michael Smith: Hurricanes lines: E. Staal-J. Staal-Lindholm Skinner-Rask-Semin Gerbe-Nash-Tlusty Malone-McClement-Dwyer.

Oct. 8th: Season starts in North America

Nov. 1st and 2nd: Global Series – Florida and Dallas in Tampere, Finland

Dec. 31st: NHL Winter Classic – St. Louis vs. Chicago at Wrigley Field

Jan. 18th: Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada

Feb. 10th – Feb. 21st: 4 Nations Face-Off – Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States in Boston and Montreal

Mar. 1st: NHL Stadium Series – Detroit vs. Columbus at Ohio State University

Mar. 7th: NHL Trade Deadline (3:00 PM ET)

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