Quick Hits: Waivers, Injury Updates, Lines and Goalies
  • Chad Graff: A mumps vaccine was given to any Wild player that wanted one after last night’s game.
  • Ansar Khan: Pavel Datsyuk will be back in the Red Wings lineup tonight.
  • Adam Vingan: Capitals Tom Wilson won’t be in the lineup tonight, but could be back in tomorrow. Brooks Laich will travel with the team.
  • George Richards: Panthers Brandon Pirri (concussion) skated this morning.
  • Pittsburgh Penguins: Lines: Kunitz-Crosby-Dupuis, Spaling-Malkin-Hornqvist, Bennett-Sutter-Downie, Comeau/Sill-Goc-Adams.
  • Ansar Khan: Red Wings lines: Nyquist-Zetterberg-Franzen Abdelkader-Datsyuk-Jurco Tatar-Sheahan-Helm Miller-Glendening-Andersson Cleary, Nestrasil, Weiss (IR) out.
  • Ansar Khan: Red Wings power play units: Nyquist-Zetterberg-Franzen, Abdelkader, Kronwall and Tatar-Datsyuk-Jurco, Sheahan, Kindl
  • Adam Kimelman: Flyers lines: Simmonds-Giroux-Voracek, BSchenn-Couturier-Read, Umberger-Lecavalier-Akeson, Rinaldo-Bellemare-VandeVelde. Defensive pairings: Grossmann-Streit, Del Zotto-Schultz, Coburn-Colaiacovo.
  • Chuck Gormley: Capitals lines: Ovi-Backstrom-Beagle; Johansson-Burakovsky-Brouwer; Chimera-Fehr-Ward; O’Brien-Kuznetsov-Latta. Defensive pairings: Orpik-Carlson; Alzner-Niskanen; Schmidt-Green.
  • Bryan Burns: Lightning lines: Stamkos-Callahan-Filppula, Johnson-Paquette-Kucherov, Boyle-Brown-Morrow, Namestnikov-Drouin-Killorn
  • Mike Maniscalco: Hurricanes lines: Tlusty-Staal-Boychuk Gerbe-Nash-Semin Skinner-Rask-Terry Dwyer-McClement-Malone
  • Chuck Gormley: Cory Schneider will make his 17th straight start tonight for the Devils.
  • Adam Kimelman: Steve Mason is expected to start in net for the Flyers.
  • Adam Vingan: Braden Holtby will start in net for the Capitals.
  • Mark Lazerus: Corey Crawford will start in net for the Blackhawks.