Injury Notes: Duchene, Franzen, Smith, Quincey, Filppula, Lehtonen and Brassard

Adrian Dater of the Denver Post: Avalanche’s Matt Duchene missed last night’s…

Quick Hits: Filppula, Coach’s challenge, Wider nets, Iginla, Smith, Scouting Leafs-Flyers, Sit Kulemin?

Elliotte Friedman of CBC: If there is NHL expansion, it won’t happen…

Injury notes: Hartnell, Red Wings, Lupul, Gagne, Faksa, Weiss, Atkinson, Meszaros and Lombardi

Adam Kimelman of NHL.com: Flyers winger Scott Hartnell will be out 4…

Quick Hits: Escrow, Frattin, Lupul, Hovinen, Redden, Newbury, Brodin, Filppula, Caruso and Versteeg

Darren Dreger via twitter: Escow for this year has been set at 10%. Kevin McGran via…

Datsyuk, Malkin, Kovalchuk and Ovechkin offered $30 million each … Kovalchuk says he wants to stay in Russia … FA and injury notes

Dustin Leed via twitter: Pavel Datsyuk, Evgeni Malkin, Ilya Kovalchuk and Alex…

Filppula, Dubinsky and Malone injured … Simmonds returning … Stastny, Klein, Fowler and Chimera going overseas

Helene St. James via twitter: Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula sprained his…

Filppula hurts knee … Sheahan arrested … Meszaros skating … Prohorkin’s contract invalid … Gervais heading to Germany

Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press: Red Wings Valtteri Filppula…

NHL players who are playing overseas during the NHL lockout

Here is a list of players that have signed contracts to play…

No formal CBA meetings today … Backstrom injured … Overseas player news

Katie Strang via twitter: There are no formal CBA meetings scheduled for…

Trade and free agent notes: Umberger, Filppula, Kulikov, Hartnell and Blues questions

Aaron Portzline via twitter: Portzline clears the air regarding the rumor that…

Some points from the NHLPA proposal … Oilers looking to extend Hall and Eberle … Wings looking for Dmen … Bergevin won’t talk Subban

Larry Brooks via twitter: From the NHLPA’s proposal to the NHL: “Clubs…

Morning notes on Rick Nash and Shea Weber

Darren Dreger via twitter: Trade discussions between the Rangers and Blue Jackets…