- Tonight Brian Burke’s winless Leafs take on his former team in Anaheim.
- The extent of Ilya Kovalchuk’s foot injury won’t be determined until sometime today.
- “Right now, his confidence is what’s lacking,” said Bruins coach Claude Julien about Blake Wheeler.
- Boston has been grinding out wins, as the team has recorded five of a possible six points since Marc Savard and Milan Lucic got injured.
- The Sabres have to decide soon whether to keep Tyler Myers in the NHL or return him to junior hockey. (Writer’s note: This is not much of a decision, Myers should clearly stay.)
- The Flames’ depth on offense is evident so far this season, as the team is leading the NHL in goals-per-game.
- Paul Maurice knows that nobody is going to feel sorry for the Hurricanes, so the team better get going quickly.
- Joel Quenneville says he sees some progress in Jonathan Toews and Brent Seabrook, so it is possible they could both play tonight against Minnesota.
- T.J. Galiardi is off to a quietly effective start in Colorado this season.
- Adrian Dater didn’t think Ryan O’Reilly would even stay in Colorado all season long, but now he’d be his vote for the Calder Trophy.
- “We’re really poor in our own zone right now,” said Ken Hitchcock after the Blue Jackets’ loss at Los Angeles.
- Even though the Blue Jackets have lost three of four, the team is still 6-4 which is the best start to a season in franchise history.
- After a terrible 2008/09 season, Marty Turco seems to be back to his old self, writes Mike Heika.
- The Red Wings are going to need Daniel Cleary and Todd Bertuzzi to both improve on their total of two combined goals this season.
- The positives that come from the Red Wings struggles is that the team is doing a lot of things right, it just needs some lucky bounces.
- “It was kind of a sleeper game … we had some passengers,” said Oilers head coach Pat Quinn after last night’s loss in Vancouver.
- In positive news, Gilbert Brule is recovered from the flu and was back in the lineup last night.
- In Florida, injured winger David Booth is expected to be out at least one week with a concussion.
- Here are more details on Booth’s condition from Steve Gorten of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
- Even without Justin Williams in the lineup, the Kings fired on all cylinders last night, defeating the Blue Jackets.
- Martin Havlat returns to Chicago tonight for the first time since leaving as a free agent.
- The Habs are improving both on the penalty kill and on the power play since returning home.
- Ever wonder how Rogie Vachon is doing? Dave Stubbs of the Montreal Gazette has the story.
- Barry Trotz is sure riding his top defensemen this season, writes John Glennon.
- The Devils are concerned that they may have lost Paul Martin to a broken arm and Jay Pandolfo to a dislocated shoulder.
- Scott Gordon wants his team to improve on clamping down defensively in the third period.
- Brandon Dubinsky is just trying to move on after being bench by John Tortorella on Saturday.
- Meanwhile, Dubinsky is not alone as Chris Higgins is also in Tortorella’s doghouse.
- Tortorella has stressed that his team has to stop cheating and, instead, needs to get on the right side of the puck.
- Sure questions surround the Senators, but Don Brennan of the Ottawa Sun says at least the team is headed in the right direction.
- Brian Boucher was anything but stellar in his first game against his former Sharks teammates, as the Flyers lost 4-1 at home.
- In other news, Mike Richards somehow avoided suspension for his hit on David Booth.
- Flyers rookie JVR continues to impress the Flyers’ brass.
- “The people who deal with off-ice issues, they’ll deal with those. We can only control what happens on the ice,” said Cootes coach Dave Tippett about answering any off-ice questions.
- Matt Cooke tries to contribute to the Penguins in his own way, although he has a more verstaile skill-set than people think.
- The Penguins have a terrific record, but it doesn’t mean they will overlook their drawbacks.
- The Sharks could have mailed it in and still had a successful road trip but they didn’t and the result was an impressive win over the Flyers.
- San Jose played last night without Devin Setoguchi and Ryan Vesce.
- It appears Blues enforcer D.J. King has a broken hand.
- The Lightning has to make a decision on James Wright but he has some support from Vincent Lecavalier.
- Speaking of Lecavalier, his scoring slump is over, so he thinks the floodgates will open.
- “I wish I was coming back with a better record,” said Brian Burke about his return to Anaheim.
- Jonas Gustavsson is expected to get the start tonight in Anaheim.
- Who is responsible for the Leafs’ early season struggles?
- Roberto Luongo is now the Canucks’ franchise leader in shutout after last night’s 2-0 victory over Edmonton.
- Mathieu Schneider made his season debut last night for Vancouver.
