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The Pittsburgh Penguins are back home for two games this week after losing in Montreal to the Canadiens 5-4 on Saturday.

They'll play a Vegas Golden Knights team that lost 3-2 in a shootout to the Boston Bruins on Monday. This will be the second half of a back-to-back with travel for the Golden Knights, so the Penguins will have the schedule advantage. 

Still, this is one heck of a Golden Knights team coming into this game with a 9-5-2 record, good for second in the Pacific Division. They punked the Penguins 6-2 earlier in the season when the Penguins lost all four games on their western road trip. 

Jack Eichel has been fantastic to start the season, compiling seven goals and 20 points in 16 games. He can do it all and is outstanding at shutting down the league's best players.

Mark Stone leads the team in goals with 10 and also has 18 points in 16 games. Don't forget about Mitch Marner, too. He's one of the league's best distributors, as shown by 15 of his 17 points being assists. 

They also have Tomas Hertl, Trevor Connelly, Ivan Barbashev, William Karlsson, and Brett Howden, all of whom can fill the net at any time. 

Defensively, Shea Theodore carries much of the load, but Noah Hanifin and Rasmus Andersson also help when they can. Adin Hill is slated to start in goal after Carter Hart played on Monday. 

The Penguins will be without star forward Evgeni Malkin on Tuesday, but his injury doesn't sound serious. He was a participant during the morning skate and could return against Boston on Thursday.

Defenseman Kaedan Korczak should be good to go after also participating in the morning skate. Like Malkin, he missed Monday's practice with an injury. 

Here's a look at the expected lines and pairings:

Forwards

Novak-Crosby-Rakell

Kuzmenko-Kindel-Chinakhov

Koivunen-Lapierre-Brazeau

Dewar-Lizotte-Robertson

Defense

Stastney-Karlsson

Girard-Korczak

Carlile-Letang

Arturs Silovs will start in goal after having the night off on Saturday.

Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. ET on SportsNet Pittsburgh. You can also listen to the game on 105.9 'The X.'

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Colton Parayko is not ready yet, Ross Johnston is back, and Aleksanteri Kaskimaki, fresh off scoring his first NHL goal, will be a healthy scratch when the St. Louis Blues (7-6-1) play the second of a four-game road trip against the New York Rangers (7-7-1) Tuesday at 6 p.m. (Blue Note+, ESPN 101.1-FM) at Madison Square Garden.

Parayko missed Saturday's 5-4 win at the Detroit Red Wings with an upper-body injury suffered in a 4-1 win over the Boston Bruins last Thursday and continues to be listed as day-to-day, with the Blues wanting to be cautious with him and not turn it into a prolonged injury.

Johnston, who has not played since Oct. 15 against the Minnesota Wild due to a lower-body injury, was to return to the lineup at some point on this road trip, Blues coach Jim Montgomery said prior to the team departing, and looks like today is the day, and he will replace Kaskimaki, who scored his first NHL goal -- the game-winner -- on Saturday.

Some of you may be scoffing at the notion of Kaskimaki coming out, and it's a valid thought since the rookie has played really well since his recall from Springfield of the American Hockey League, but the Rangers are a physical team and possess one of the toughest fighters in the league in Matt Rempe, and Johnston's presence for that alone will be imperative in case there are fisticuffs.

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With defenseman Logan Mailloux being sent to Springfield of the American Hockey League for a conditioning assignment from the broken hand he suffered in the final preseason game on Sept. 26 against the Chicago Blackhawks, there's a chance -- albeit a slight one -- he could be ready as early as Saturday in the final game of the trip against the Nashville Predators but more likely when the team returns home next week in a rematch against the Red Wings.

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The Blues will make a third attempt at that elusive third straight win. 

In attempts earlier this season, they lost 4-0 to the Carolina Hurricanes Oct. 24 and 5-4 to the Wild.

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Blues Projected Lineup:

Dylan Holloway-Robert Thomas-Jimmy Snuggerud

Connor McMichael-Mason McTavish-Jonatan Berggren

Jake Neighbours-Dalibor Dvorsky-Pavel Buchnevich

Alexey Toropchenko-Pius Suter-Ross Johnston

Philip Broberg-Brandon Carlo

Cam Fowler-Adam Jiricek

Theo Lindstein-Justin Barron

Joel Hofer will start in goal; Jordan Binnington will be the backup.

The healthy scratch includes Aleksanteri Kaskimaki. Colton Parayko (upper body), Tyler Tucker (knee) and Dillon Dube (neck) are out.

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Rangers Projected Lineup:

Pavel Dorofeyev-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere

Tye Kartye-J.T. Miller-Gabe Perreault

Eeli Tolvanen-Will Cuylle-Oliver Bjorkstrand

Jaroslav Chlemar-Noah Laba-Matt Rempe

Vladislav Gavrikov-Adam Fox

Marcus Pettersson-Braden Schneider

Alberts Smits-Scott Morrow

Dylan Garand will start in goal; James Reimer will be the backup.

Healthy scratches include Luke Glendening and Matthew Robertson. Igor Shesterkin (lower body), Joonas Korpisalo (lower body), Sean Durzi (undisclosed) and Joseph Veleno (lower body) are out.

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There was nothing more Carter Mazur wanted than to play for the Detroit Red Wings one day, his favorite team while growing up in Michigan. 

Not only is he living that dream, but on Monday evening, he hit a major career milestone. 

Mazur scored his first NHL goal as part of Detroit's 5-3 win over the divisional rival Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena, whipping a shot past the glove of goaltender Jacob Markstrom. 

The Michigan-born forward, who has experienced numerous injury setbacks in the early goings of his young career, said that the milestone goal came as a relief.

“It was a relief, for sure, especially going through all those injuries throughout my career," Mazur said in the dressing room afterward. "To finally get that one it felt really special for me.”

"I just put my head down and tried to shoot it into the back of the net, and luckily, it went in." 

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The victory for the Red Wings was something they needed in the wake of their 5-4 setback on Saturday afternoon against the St. Louis Blues in which they held a two-goal third period lead. 

"I think it was a good response from the last game against St. Louis," Mazur said. "I think we came out hard, especially against a tough team like Florida, and we just have to keep building off that." 

"You just have to move on and take a lesson from it, and come out even stronger. I think we did a good job of that." 

Also scoring for the Red Wings were Alex DeBrincat, Justin Faulk, Michael Brandsegg-Nygård, and Emmitt Finnie (empty net). Sam Reinhart, Aaron Ekblad, and Sam Bennett all tallied for the Panthers. 

Scoring his first goal will feel good for Mazur, who suffered a fluke injury just seconds into his NHL debut in the spring of 2025; he's missed weeks of playing time with the American Hockey League affiliate Grand Rapids Griffins with various ailments.

So far this season with the Red Wings, he's appeared in nine gams and has three points. 

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At Monday’s Montreal Canadiens practice, just shy of two weeks after suffering an injury against the San Jose Sharks, Nick Suzuki was back skating between Cole Caufield and Juraj Slafkovsky. Still, the Montreal Canadiens confirmed that he won't play on Tuesday night when the Habs take on the Winnipeg Jets.

Tuesday’s tilt will be the second of the season between the two sides since they played one another just over a week ago at the Heritage Classic. With the NHL's eyes on the outdoor game, the Jets took 34 shots on net, but Jacob Fowler was nearly unbeatable, allowing only one goal while the Habs scored two and took the win. Montreal will wear yet another jersey as they debut their Hometown Remix threads, unveiled yesterday to mixed reactions.

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While Jacob Fowler won his last start, it wasn’t his best night, so the coach could have sent Jakub Dobes back in net, but he elected not to do it. Thanks to his stellar play since being called up from the Laval Rocket, Fowler was named NHL rookie of the month in October and won the Molson Cup, so he earned himself some leeway.

Both netminders have faced the Jets once and have come out on top with enviable stats. Fower has a 1.00 goals-against average and a .971 save percentage after his Heritage Classic antics, while Dobes has a 1.38 GAA and a .938 SV after a 3-2 shootout win last March.

At the other end of the ice, Stuart Skinner would probably like a chance to get his revenge after losing the outdoor game, but he was lit up for five goals on Sunday when the Jets lost 7-0 to the Caroline Hurricanes. The netminder has a 4-3-0 record against Montreal with a 2.72 GAA and an .893 SV. The visitors currently have three netminders on the roster: Nico Daws, who’s 2-1-0 against the Habs with a 2.68 GAA and a .901 SV against Montreal, and Clay Stevenson, who has never faced the Sainte-Flanelle; complete the trio and are the two alternatives.

Up front, Phillip Danault leads all Habs skaters in points against the visitors with 24 in 32 games, followed by captain Nick Suzuki with 17 in 21 games and power forward Josh Anderson with 17 in 26 games. Chris Kreider is next in line with 16 points in 27 duels. The two big wingers are coming off a multi-point performance against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. As for Cole Caufield, he has nine points in 12 games against the Jets, including two assists last week, but Winnipeg remains the only NHL team he has never scored against.

For the Jets, Kyle Connor produces more than a point per game against Montreal with 29 in 25 games, followed by Mark Scheifele, who has 26 in 33 games, while Nino Niederreiter completes the top three with 18 points in 32 games. Scheifele will no doubt be looking for revenge after Fowler stopped him seven times at the Heritage Classic, including a couple of times when he looked to the heavens, likely wondering what on earth he had to do to beat the youngster.

Montreal has won six of the last 10 duels between the two sides, including the last three games, and is off to a much better start to the season than the visitors. The Habs have 20 points and are fifth in the league, but have games in hand on the first four teams, while the Jets are currently 28th overall, have lost their last five games, and are 1-7-2 in their last 10. The game is set for 7:00 PM; you can catch it in French on RDS and in English on TSN 2. Alex Lepkowski and Chris Rooney are the referees, while Shandor Alphonso and Jonathan Deschamps are the linesmen.

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An injury has left Kaeden Korczak in the day-to-day range and as a result has led to the first call-up of the season for defenseman Jake Livanavage.

Livanavage has arguably been the best defender in Wilkes-Barre this year, leading the blueline in scoring with eight points (2G+6A) in nine AHL games. As a left shot defender, it remains to be seen if this call-up will be more to have an extra body on hand while Korczak is injured or if Livanavage will get the opportunity to play at some point. Bringing Livanavage up to the NHL roster means the team will have seven healthy players (excluding Korczak) and presumably put Livanavage or Ilya Solovyov into the playing lineup for the duration of Korczak’s absence.

One player who will be getting into the lineup is Justin Brazeau, who worked yesterday with Ville Koivunen and Hendrix Lapierre. Brazeau has been given the green light to play tonight in the NHL by coach Dan Muse after a two-game conditioning stint in the AHL where he recorded an assist.

Brazeau’s return comes at a good time for the team with Elmer Soderblom’s injury having been changed into a week-to-week status following further evaluation. Brazeau’s return gives the Penguins 13 forwards on the current roster, though Evgeni Malkin missed practice yesterday with what was called a day-to-day injury and has an unknown status for tonight’s game against Vegas.

The Pens start a stretch tonight where they will play four games in the next six days. The team hasn’t used the same lineup for their 18-skaters and starting goalie in consecutive games, and figure to continue that streak for at least tonight with Brazeau looking to make his season debut and a few banged up players in Korczak and Malkin that might miss time.

The New York Islanders will have something of a salary war chest this summer, based on the upcoming salary cap increase to a projected $113.5 million.

New York's current cap hit is a shade above $102 million. 

The team has just over $27 million in expiring deals, with Ondrej Palat and Kyle Palmieri representing over $10 million of that alone.

If you do the math, it gives the Islanders a near-$40 million war chest for this summer to add major pieces throughout the lineup.

The question has and still remains what Islanders' General Manager Mathieu Darche will look to do with that money.

That's also only the minimum they'll have in space. Ryan Pulock and Scott Mayfield's contracts shift from full no-trade protection to each having a 16-team list.

The entire conversation changed at the end of last week.

Tampa Bay Lightning superstar forward, two-time Hart Trophy winner, two-time Stanley Cup Champion, and the Lightning's all-time leading scorer Nikita Kucherov requested a trade and announced he won't be extending with the Lightning.

It's a total earthquake for the entirety of the NHL, one that changes how the majority of teams may brace for the summer.

The Lightning released a statement publicly declaring they have zero intent to trade Kucherov, but the rumors are now there.

Immediately, it's easy to see the connection to the Islanders. Darche worked for the Lightning for six years and both of their Stanley Cups with Kucherov.

Kucherov, per reports, wants to play with another superstar. The Islanders have that in Matthew Schaefer.

Then, on Monday, Pierre LeBrun released his latest NHL Rumblings article for The Athletic.

LeBrun became the first major insider to link the Islanders directly to Kucherov.

"GM Mathieu Darche has a relationship with Kucherov from his Tampa days. I fully expect they will try to be a player from a July 1 perspective."

The Islanders were mentioned on a list with nine other teams, but as LeBrun noted, if Kucherov's available, there's 31 teams that want to be involved.

It's very important to note that LeBrun specifically states the Islanders will try, and a player be a player from a free agency perspective.

That's pretty specific wording, and it makes one think the Islanders won't be involved in any trade dialogue for the Russian star.

With how Darche has operated, keeping top prospects off limits in deals, along with the roster pieces and future draft capital, that would make sense.

If it gets to free agency, the Islanders can and likely will offer something of a blank check, while trying to convince Kucherov to join a team with Schaefer, superstar Russian goaltender Ilya Sorokin, and stars Bo Horvat and Mathew Barzal.

Exactly one week after the Vancouver Canucks (3–12–1) ended their 10-game losing streak with a 6–5 overtime win, they’ll be facing the very team they smashed the streak against — the Anaheim Ducks (6–7–1). Vancouver’s last matchup saw them take a 4–2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, while the Ducks put together a 6–3 win against the Ottawa Senators. 

One of the things the Canucks will want to watch out for in their rematch against the Ducks is Anaheim’s special teams. The Ducks’ power play currently sits at second in the NHL with a success rate of 34%, also having scored once in two opportunities against Vancouver. Their penalty kill, which is notably in the bottom-half of the league at 76.4%, was effective against a stagnant Canucks power play last week. 

Faceoffs have been a slight issue for the Canucks as of late. Against the Maple Leafs on Saturday, Vancouver won only 39% of their draws, resulting in their current season winning rate of 46.5% — ranking 28th in the NHL. Against Anaheim last week, Vancouver also recorded a sub-40% faceoff win rate, winning only 36.8% of their faceoffs. They’ve posted a faceoff winning percentage of 40% or lower six different times this season, also doingso against the Tampa Bay Lightning (37.7%), New York Islanders (40%), New York Rangers (38%), and Edmonton Oilers (40%). 

Players To Watch: 

Forward Elias Pettersson 

Elias Pettersson was one of a few Canucks that found fair offensive success against the Ducks in their matchup one week ago, logging two assists and nearly 25 minutes worth of ice time. While his six-game point-streak did come to an end on Saturday, Pettersson is still averaging a point per game to start the 2026–27 season. He has also performed well statistically against the Ducks throughout his career, putting up seven goals and 18 assists in 25 games.  

Jackson LaCombe

In Vancouver’s last matchup against the Ducks, defenceman Jackson LaCombe put together a three-assist effort, helping out on both of A.J. Greer’s goals as well as one scored by Jeff Malott. The defenceman currently sits at second in scoring on Anaheim with a total of 15 points in 14 games and is their outright leader in TOI with an average of 26:45 minutes played per game — nearly six minutes more than the next player, Tristan Luneau.    

Vancouver Canucks (3–12–1): 

Points: 

Elias Pettersson: 4–12–16

Jonathan Lekkerimäki: 6–7–13

Brock Boeser: 5–8–13

Filip Hronek: 1–11–12

Linus Karlsson: 3–6–9

Goaltenders: 

Leevi Meriläinen: 2–5–1

Kevin Lankinen: 1–7–0

Anaheim Ducks (6–7–1): 

Points: 

Leo Carlsson: 4–17–21

Jackson LaCombe: 1–14–15

Beckett Sennecke: 8–4–12

Cutter Gauthier: 7–5–12

Mikael Granlund: 3–7–10 

Goaltenders: 

Lukáš Dostál: 4–4–1

Laurent Broissoit: 1–0–0

Ville Husso: 1–3–0

Game Information: 

Start time: 7:00 pm PCT

Venue: Rogers Arena

Television: Sportsnet

Radio: KiSS West Coast 

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