Lines and Starting Goalies: Maple Leafs, Penguins, Senators, Islanders, Canucks and Capitals
Dave Feschuk via twitter: Maples Leafs lines: Bozak-MacArthur-Kessel. Grabo-Kulemin-JVR. Kadri-Komarov-Lupul. McClement-Brown-Orr. Pittsburgh Penguins via twitter: Penguins lines: Kunitz-Crosby-Dupuis Tangradi-Malkin-Neal Cooke-Sutter-Kennedy Glass-Vitale-Adams (Jeffrey). Bruce Garrioch via twitter: Senators lines: Michalek-Spezza-Silfverberg, Latendresse-Turris-Alfredsson; Greening-Smith-Neil; O'Brien-Regin-Condra. Defensive pairings: Methot-Karlsson, Gonchar-Phillips, Wiercioch-Benoit. New York Islanders via twitter: Islanders lines: Moulson-Tavares-Okposo, Grabner-Nielsen-Boyes,…
Trade Rumors: Luongo, Oilers, Blackhawks, Capitals, Niederreiter, Subban and Flames
David Ebner of the Globe and Mail: So the Canucks have said they have "two No. 1s" in net and their GM has a potential deal in place. “Would you not say I have two No. 1s right now?” said…
Lines for Rangers, Maple Leafs and Flyers … Starting goalies for Blackhawks, Jets and Capitals
Andrew Gross via twitter: Rangers lines: Nash-Richards-Gaborik Kreider-Stepan-Callahan Hagelin-Boyle-Pyatt Rupp-Halpern-Bickel (for Asham, absent). Steve Zipay via twitter: Aaron Asham has a minor groin injury. David Alter via twitter: Maple Leafs lines: Lupul-Bozak-Kessel, JVR-Grabo-Kulemin, MacArthur-Kadri-Komarov, Brown-McClement-Orr-Steckel. Mike Morreale via twitter: Flyers lines: Hartnell-Giroux-Voracek; Fedotenko-Couturier-Read;…
Quick hits: Lecavalier, JF Jacques, waivers, Hillen, Gardiner, Rinaldo, Redden and Leino
Dan Rosen via twitter: Vincent Lecavalier is playing in his 1,000th game today. He's the 5th former #1 pick to play 1,000 games with his drafting team. Mike Modano, Gilbert Perreault, Denis Potvin and Chris Phillips are the 4 other players.…
Wings Kindl has groin injury … Antropov optimistic for opener … Poti back with Caps … Kovalev close on deal … Lilja may look to Sweden
Ted Kulfan via twitter: Mikael Samuelsson returned to practice but Jakub Kindl sits with a groin injury. Tim Campbell of the Winnipeg Free Press: Nik Antropov didn't pass is medical with the Jets last week, but has been skating this…
Teams looking at Redden and Gomez … Flames send two to Abbotford … Leonsis will let Ovechkin go to Sochi Olympic
Daren Millard via twitter: Oilers GM Steve Tambellini said they've talked about the waiver process when asked about interest in defenseman Wade Redden. Michael Russo via twitter: Russo doesn't think the Wild will have any interest in Wade Redden. Tim…
Interest for Gomez … “Not close” for Subban … No Redden in LA … Visnovsky wants to stay for 2 weeks … O’Donnell retires … Laich’s groin
The Fourth Period: Scott Gomez is already getting some interest for when he's bought out and becomes a free agent. It's possible that he could be picked up before the start of the season. All interest is coming from the…
Habs send Gomez home, buyout in summer … P.K. and Canadiens not close … Caps lines … Nonis on Leafs goaltending
David Pagnotta via twitter: The Canadiens will be releasing Scott Gomez. He'll be sent home for the season. The Canadiens will be buying his contract out this summer. Elliotte Friedman via twitter: Gomez will get a pro-rated $5.5 million this year and will…
Medvedev coming to N.A. to talk Kovalchuk buyout … Teams could look at Hemsky … Reasons for Flyers to go after Luongo
Igor Eronko via twitter: KHL president Alex Medvedev said he'll be heading to North America in February to talk to the Devils about a contract buyout for Ilya Kovalchuk to bring him back to Russia. The Fourth Period: With the…
Quick hits on: Luongo, Del Zotto, Red Wings and Rangers lines, camp invites, Whitney’s ankle and Armstrong extension coming
Bob Stauffer via twitter: Some media suggest the Oilers are interested in Luongo. Stauffer doesn't see it as it's Devan Dubnyk's time. Bob Stauffer via twitter: Would be surprised if the Rangers traded Michael Del Zotto. He's a good puck-moving…
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 Ovechkin were guaranteed $30 million each by Russian President Vladimir Putin to remain in the KHL. Update: Original source came from David Satriano of the NY Post: The…
Trade activity could be heated … Leafs say no to Bernier, others could be interested … Sens could look for a Dman … Iginla and free agency
Greg Wyshynski via twitter: Capitals GM George McPhee said that trade activity could be heavy before the season starts. He was already getting calls. Clarifying, that he was referring to trade activity in the NHL and not necessarily for the Capitals.…