On the Columbus Blue Jackets …
Aaron Portzline: The Blue Jackets have told forward Pierre-Luc Dubois that he’ll be remaining with the team.
On the Florida Panthers …
Harvey Fialkov: Panthers Connor Brickley is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
On the Montreal Canadiens and an agents comments …
Eric Engels of Sportsnet: Player agent Dan Milstein tweeted that Canadiens coach Claude Julien has issues with Russian players.
“Alex Galchenyuk isn’t a problem but coach is. Has never successfully coached Russian. Took midseason most-Russian club. All but one Russian gone,” said Milstein on Twitter.
The tweet is now deleted.
Russian players the Canadiens moved on from this past offseason: Alexei Emelin, Mikhail Sergachev, Alex Radulov and Andrei Markov.
“These are my observations,” Milstein told Sportsnet. “I represent several Russian players, and I know Alex is not one of them and I’m out of line for commenting because I don’t represent him. But I’m just stating the facts.
“I have nothing but respect for Marc Bergevin. But it seems obvious the coach doesn’t like Russians.”
Eric Engels: The NHLPA may investigate the comments made by player agent Dan Milstein. Milstein tweeted about Alex Galchenyuk and he doesn’t represent him.
On the New Jersey Devils …
Andrew Gross: Forward Kyle Palmieri had an off ice workout yesterday and coach John Hynes didn’t rule him out for tonight.
On the Ottawa Senators …
Bruce Garrioch: Kyle Turris missed last night’s game with a viral infection. He won’t play tonight either.
Bruce Garrioch: Coach Guy Boucher said that Chris Wideman did have clearance from doctors and could have returned to the game.
On the Philadelphia Flyers …
Adam Kimelman: Forward Nolan Patrick missed last night’s game with an upper-body injury and is day-to-day.
On the Pittsburgh Penguins …
Jason Mackey: The Penguins have recalled defenseman Frank Corrado on played Justin Schultz on the IR.
On the Tampa Bay Lightning …
Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times: Forward Cedric Paquette will be out for a couple weeks with an undisclosed injury.
“Unfortunately a couple players go through some of these injury streaks and he’s in one,” Cooper said. “It’s not that this is serious, he’s going to mend up a little bit and he’ll be back.”
On the Washington Capitals …
Capitals PR: Forward Nicklas Backstrom missed last night’s game with an illness.
#Caps Connolly hobbled on a hit from Gudbranson pic.twitter.com/wAVAZuBF5P
— Dhiren Mahiban (@dcmahiban) October 27, 2017
