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The Lightning placed Brian Elliott in COVID-19 protocol on Sunday.

The Lightning are set to play four games in six days this week but lost both goalies, Mikhail Sergachev and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to COVID-19 on Sunday and both Anthony Cirelli and Andrej Sustr on Monday. With both Elliott and Andrei Vasilevskiy out, Maxime Lagace is expected to be promoted and start on Tuesday.

Brian Elliott
The Lightning placed Andrei Vasilevskiy in COVID-19 protocol on Sunday.

The Lightning are set to play four games in six days this week but lost both goalies, Mikhail Sergachev and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to COVID-19 on Sunday and both Anthony Cirelli and Andrej Sustr on Monday. With both Vasilevskiy and Brian Elliott out, Maxime Lagace is expected to be promoted and start on Tuesday.

Andrei Vasilevskiy
The Panthers placed MacKenzie Weegar on the COVID-19 protocol list on Sunday.

The Panthers placed four new players in COVID-19 protocol on Sunday, the same day that they activated eight players from the list. With Weegar likely out until the middle of next week, Gustav Forsling skated on a pairing with Aaron Ekblad in Monday's practice.

MacKenzie Weegar
The Panthers placed Jonathan Huberdeau on the COVID-19 protocol list on Sunday.

The Panthers placed four new players in COVID-19 protocol on Sunday, the same day that they activated eight players from the list. With Huberdeau likely out until the middle of next week, Frank Vatrano moved up into the top-6 in Monday's practice.

Jonathan Huberdeau
Tanev suffered a season-ending ACL injury on December 18tht.

Tanev will miss the rest of the 2021-22 season after suffering an ACL injury vs. the Oilers on December 18th. This is a terrible break for Tanev, who was having a career year, scoring nine goals with six assists (15 points) in his first 30 games of the season.

Brandon Tanev
The Stars placed Michael Raffl in COVID-19 protocol on Sunday.

Raffl was one of six Stars players added to COVID-19 protocol on Sunday and two more were added on Monday. As of right now, they are scheduled to play three games this week, starting on Wednesday but it seems likely that they are going to be postponed.

Michael Raffl
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