Calgary Flames goaltender Dan Vladar will make his first start of the season in Thursday’s road game against the Buffalo Sabres, coach Ryan Huska told reporters after morning skate.
Jacob Markstrom has started the club’s first three games, going 1-1-1.
The plan was to start Vladar on Monday in Washington, but he was sick. The Capitals won 3-2 in a shootout.
Vladar went 14-6-5 with a 2.87 goals-against average and 8.94 saves percentage last season.
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Defenceman Mattias Samuelsson is good to go against the Flames tonight, according to coach Don Granato.
Samuelsson exited Tuesday’s win over the Tampa Bay Lightning with an upper-body injury.
Jack Campbell was in the starter’s net for the Oilers on Thursday in Philadelphia for morning skate.
Campbell stopped 43 shots in the team’s last game — a 6-1 win over the Nashville Predators on Thursday.
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Defenceman Nate Schmidt will be a healthy scratch on Thursday against the Vegas Golden Knights, coach Rick Bowness confirmed to reporters.
Logan Stanley will replace Schmidt in the lineup.
Schmidt, a former Golden Knight, had seven goals and 12 assists in 71 games last season with Winnipeg.
Meanwhile, the Jets will give goaltender Laurent Brossoit his first start of the season. Brossoit won a Stanley Cup with the Golden Knights last season before re-signing with the Jets.
Penguins defenceman Kris Letang is being evaluated for an upper-body injury and forward Noel Acciari is being evaluated for an upper-body injury, coach Mike Sullivan said after practice.
Letang, 36, has played all 1,009 of his career NHL games with the Penguins.
Acciari signed a three-year, $6-million deal with the Penguins this off-season after finishing last season with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Kraken have recalled forward Devin Shore from AHL Coachella Valley.
Shore signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Kraken this off-season. He had one goal and eight assists in 47 games for the Edmonton Oilers last season.