Word from the team beat writers:
- John Vogl of the Buffalo News is reporting that the Sabres’ first injury swap of the regular season is here as Andrej Sekera is out and Toni Lydman is in.
- The Flames are getting Cory Sarich back for tonight’s contest against the Hawks which means Staffan Kronwall will be heading up to the press box.
- Adrian Dater of the Denver Post offers up some pre-game thoughts before the Avalanche take on the Bruins, including some video as he enters the TD Centre.
- R.J. Umberger and the rest of the Jackets are looking forward to Tuesday’s contest against the Flames but in the meantime they are celebrating Canadian thanksgiving russian style.
- Kirk Maltby took a bit of a tumble as he collided with Justin Abdelkader during Wings practice and developed a little charly horse on his right thigh writes Detroit Free Press reporter Helene St. James.
- Dave Stubbs of the Montreal Gazette writes of the Western trip being a bust for the Canadiens.
- The New Jersey Devils are loving Rob Niedermayer as the versatile forward has given them scoring and filled the role of defensive forward.
- Henrik Lundqvist knows he will need to be at the top of his game when the New York Rangers takes on the desperate, winless Leafs.
- The theory that the Pens third jersey is a curse has led the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Seth Rorabaugh to suggest that the twelve games they will be playing wearing them, are twelve games the Pens are going to lose.
- Tarik El-Bashir of the Washington Post reports that Bruce Boudreau likes what he has seen from his number one goaltender, Jose Theodore through the first two weeks of the season.
