NHL Hockey Player News

Murray allowed one goal on 20 shots in the Penguins’ win in Montreal on Wednesday. It was a much better outing than the seven goals he allowed vs. the Capitals on Monday. The 22-year-old has gone 7-4-0 with a 2.45 GAA and .911 SV% on the road this season and stopped 25 of 27 shots in two periods in his first start vs. Carolina.

Johnson allowed four goals on 21 shots in the Flames’ loss to the Predators on Thursday. Johnson has gone 3-3-0 with a 2.21 GAA and .920 SV% in six starts this month and tonight will be his 29th start of the season, but just his first against the Oilers. Edmonton comes in having won four of their last five games.

Berube stopped both shots that he faced after replacing Thomas Greiss in the Islanders loss in Carolina last Saturday. Berube will make his third start of the season and comes into the night with an 0-2-1 record, 3.14 GAA and .904 SV% in five total appearances. Tonight he’ll face his former team, who are 8-11-3 on the road this season.

Subban has missed the last 16 games with an upper-body injury, but will return to the lineup tonight in Edmonton. The 27-year-old has picked up 17 points (7G / 10A) in the Predators’ first 29 games before he got hurt. Subban will likely replace Alexandre Carrier in the lineup tonight.

Silfverberg left Thursday’s game with an upper-body injury and will miss at leas the next two games. This is a tough break for Silfverberg, who is having a great season to date. The Swedish winger is on-pace for a career-high 22 goals and 27 assists this season.

Megna missed Tuesday’s game with the flu, but will get back into the lineup on Friday night. Megna, who skates on the third line and second power play, has just three goals and three assists (six points) in 28 games this season.

Miller stopped all 30 shots that he faced in the Canucks’ shutout win over the Predators on Tuesday. Miller has gone 4-0-2 with a 1.63 GAA, .946 SV% and two shutouts. Miller has played extremely well over the last two months and comes into Friday with an 11-4-1 record, 2.04 GAA and .930 SV% on home-ice this season.

Calvert has not recorded a point in 10 games and played just 8:02 TOI on Thursday. The 27-year-old winger will come out of the lineup on Saturday and will be replaced Markus Hannikainen, who was called up from Cleveland on Friday.

Bass has been out with a lower-body injury since November 19th and will undergo an undisclosed surgery that will keep him out for the rest of the season.

Rielly skated by himself on Friday, but is not ready to play on Saturday. Rielly will remains day-to-day and will be replaced by Martin Marincin instead of Frank Corrado on Saturday night.

Rask allowed five goals on 25 shots in the Bruins’ shootout loss in Detroit on Wednesday. Rask has lost two in a row while allowing a combined eight goals on 40 shots (.800 SV%). January hasn’t been kind to Rask, who will make his 38th start of the season tonight. Rask comes in fifth in wins (22) and GAA (2.11) and tied for 17th in SV% (.919).

Oduya suffered a lower-body injury on Wednesday and it is enough to keep him out for at least one week, so the Stars have moved him to IR and called Julius Honka up from Texas (AHL).

Honka, 21, had three assists in eight games with the Stars earlier this season. The 2014 No.14 pick is offensively gifted and comes back to the Stars with 21 points (5G / 16A) in 30 games with Texas. He has been recalled to replace Johnny Oduya, who has been placed on IR.

Marincin has been on IR with an undisclosed injury since December 10th, but will be back in the lineup on Saturday. With Morgan Rielly out, Frank Corrado played on Thursday, but Marincin will fill that spot tomorrow night. The 24-year-old blueliner has one goal and four assists (five points) in 16 games this season.

Fischer, 19, was a second round pick (No. 32 overall) in 2015 and this is his first NHL call-up. Fischer has picked up 32 points (16G / 16A) in 31 games in his first AHL season after posting 90 points (40G / 50A) in 66 games with the Windsor Spitfires (OHL) last year.

Dauphin appeared in four games and was a healthy scratch for two during this call-up. Overall, he has two goals and one assist in 24 games with the Coyotes this season. The 21-year-old will go back to Tucson, where he has collected 11 points (5G / 6A) in 11 games this season.

Griffith picked up five assists in 21 games with the Panthers after being claimed from Toronto earlier in the year. The 24-year-old has great hands, but the consensus seems to be that he doesn’t have the speed to be a regular NHLer. Griffith will head to the AHL—he had 77 points (24G / 53A) in 57 AHL games with Providence last season.

Copley, 25, has gone 11-4-1 with a 2.32 GAA and .920 SV% in 18 games with Chicago this season. The Blues’ No.1 Jake Allen has struggled mightily recently, so they will leave him in St. Louis when the Blues depart for Winnipeg for Saturday’s game. The Blues did not name a starter for Saturday, so the North Pole, Alaska native could make his first career NHL start.