Ramo allowed three goals on 11 shots in the Flames loss to the Bruins on February 16th. Jonas Hiller did not fare so well in his last two outings, so the Flames will turn to Ramo tonight in New York. Ramo has one start vs. the Rangers this season—he was yanked after giving up four goals on 13 shots in what turned out to be a 5-2 loss back in December.
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Talbot allowed four goals on 28 shots in the Jets loss to the Canucks on Thursday. He was given Friday night off, but will be back between the pipes tonight vs. Columbus. Talbot has gone 5-1-2 with a 3.10 GAA and .895 SV% in eight starts in February. He allowed four goals in a 5-2 loss in his first start vs. Columbus.
Pysyk, 23, has scored three times with 13 assists (16 points in 50 games with Rochester this season. He had one goal in four games with the Sabres earlier in the season.
McCabe, 21, has scored four goals and 21 assists (25 points) in 49 games with Rochester this season. McCabe will make his season debut tonight with Nikita Zadorov out for discipline reasons. McCabe had one assist in seven games with the Sabres last season.
Greening, 28, had just one goal in 20 games with the Senators before being sent down in late January. While in Binghamton, he has scored five goals with two assists (7 points) in 12 games.
Hemsky returned to the Stars lineup last night and posted two assists in 13:01 TOI. However, he must have been banged up last night because he is questionable for tonight’s contest. He will be replaced by Brendan Ranford if he can’t go.
Kozun had one goal in 5:20 TOI on Friday night in Carolina. With Joffrey Lupul back, Kozun heads back to the Marlies.
Enroth stopped all nine shots that he faced after replacing Kari Lehtonen in the Stars 5-2 loss to the Sharks on Thursday. He has made 35 saves on 39 shots (.897 SV%) in his first two appearances with Dallas. Tonight he will face a Wild team that he went 0-2-0 with a 6.02 GAA and .840 SV% against while with Buffalo.
Varlamov allowed one goal on 28 shots in the Avs win in Chicago on Friday. He has won three of his last four while posting a 1.65 GAA and .903 SV%. Tonight he will take on a good Lightning team, who have gone 5-3-2 in their last 10 games.
Miller surrendered four goals on 34 shots in the Canucks 5-4 win over the Rangers on Thursday. Miller has only started three of the last five games, but will get back in goal tonight on Long Island. Miller has gone 3-4-0 with a 3.40 GAA and .888 SV% in February.
After serving as a healthy scratch on Wednesday, Kassian returned to score two goals on Friday and that has earned him a spot on a line with the Sedin twins on Sunday. He has registered five goals and two assists in his last seven games.
Burakovsky was in warmups, but ended up being a heathy scratch with Michael Latta returning to the lineup. Burakovsky had recorded two goals, a plus-4 rating and 10 shots in his previous four games.
Dubnyk stopped al 15 shots that he faced in the Wild’s 4-0 shutout win over the Oilers on Friday. e is now 5-0-0 against Edmonton and has a ridiculous five shutouts in just 16 starts with Minnesota. Dubnyk enters play having won four of five with a 1.80 GAA and .933 SV%.
Krejci suffered an undisclosed injury on Friday and it will keep him out of tonight’s game against the Blackhawks. With Krejci out, Ryan Spooner was recalled and will centre the Bruins second line. Krejci is traveling with the team, so his injury is not believed to be overly serious.
Bjugstad is reportedly ailing a little bit which sparked the Panthers to recall Vincent Trocheck from San Antonio (AHL). Monitor Bjugstad’s status during warmups.
With John Gibson winning three of five during his call-up and Frederik Andersen set to return from injury, the Ducks have placed Bryzgalov on waivers in order to activate Andersen from IR. Having gone 1-4-1 with a 4.19 GAA and .847 SV%, we might have seen the last of Bryzgalov in the NHL.
Zepp made 20 saves on 22 shots in the Flyers 3-2 shootout win over the Predators last night. He is 4-1-0 with a 2.73 GAA and .892 SV% this season, but he is a risky start on no rest against a pretty talented Washington squad.
Zetterberg played just 11:24 before retiring to the locker room with an upper-body injury. There was no word on how serious the injury is, but the Red Wings will keep their fingers crossed that they don’t lose their captain for an extended period of time. The Wings went on to win 7-6 in OT without Zetty.
O’Brien had no points with a minus-1 rating in four games during his call-up. With Dmitry Kulikov back from his four-game suspension, O’Brien heads back to the AHL.
Trocheck, 21, has scored four goals and nine assists (13 points) in 28 games with the Panthers this season. There is no word whether he will play on Sunday, but while in San Antonio, he had 17 points (6G / 11A) in 21 games.