Subban had missed 11 games with a lower-body injury.
In a subsequent move, the Golden Knights assigned 19-year-old Dylan Ferguson to the WHL's Kamloops Blazers. Ferguson played nine minutes Tuesday against the Edmonton Oilers following an injury to starter Maxime Lagace.
As for Subban, he returns to the crease after appearing in just three games with Vegas, who claimed him off waivers from the Boston Bruins last month. Subban has two wins and a .936 save percentage since joining Vegas.
The Golden Knights' next game is Sunday against the Los Angeles Kings, and Subban is a good bet to get the call between the pipes.
While Subban has returned from injury, the team is still waiting on a clean bill of health for goaltenders Marc-Andre Fleury and Oscar Dansk. Dansk left an Oct. 30 contest against the New York Islanders with a lower-body injury, while Fleury hasn't played since Oct. 13 after suffering a concussion.
The Golden Knights sit second place in the Pacific Division with an 11-6-1 record through 18 games.
Luke Witkowski might want to brush up on the NHL rule book.
The Detroit Red Wings winger was suspended 10 games - based on Rule 70.6 - for his role in a brawl that took place during Wednesday's tilt with the Calgary Flames. The rule reads as follows:
Any player who has been ordered to the dressing room by the officials and returns to his bench or to the ice surface for any reason before the appropriate time shall be assessed a game misconduct and shall be suspended automatically without pay for the next ten (10) regular League and/or Play-off games.
Witkowski was making his way to the locker room with a game misconduct following a fight with Brett Kulak when he was speared in the back of the legs by Matt Tkachuk, prompting him to return to the ice and kick off a further ruckus.
He now admits he would have done things differently if he knew the impending punishment for his actions.
"It's unfortunate," Witkowski said Friday, per the Wings' website. "Honestly, I didn't know that was a rule. I obviously, I know now. I knew it was a rule you couldn't jump the boards. It's kind of a gray area with still being on the bench and the door being open. But lesson learned, I guess. Move on from here."
Detroit head coach Jeff Blashill added he doesn't believe the punishment fits the crime, and the NHL should have taken into account the fact Tkachuk - who could also be further disciplined for his action - initiated the incident.
Per Cap Friendly, Witkowski will forfeit $40,322.58 in salary as a result of the suspension, and can return to the lineup on Dec. 11.
Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson told the city's chamber of commerce Friday he would be supportive if the NHL wanted a team in Quebec City, according to Sportsnet's Chris Johnston.
Molson was adamant that the club wouldn't ask for any additional compensation if a franchise were to move into their territory.
Geoff Molson emphatically says the @CanadiensMTL would not seek any relocation or expansion compensation from a Quebec City franchise beyond their portion of those revenues from the NHL.
Quebec City hasn't housed an NHL club since the Quebec Nordiques were relocated in May of 1995 and became the Colorado Avalanche.
There has been a strong movement in support of the NHL expanding to Quebec and an official bid was made in 2015 before the league ultimately decided on Las Vegas instead.
The return of a franchise to Quebec City could reignite a heated rivalry with the Canadiens.
The club made his seven-year, $41.125-million extension official Friday, meaning he's now under contract with Columbus through the 2024-25 campaign.
Atkinson is in the final season of the three-year, $10.5-million deal he signed with the Blue Jackets in the spring of 2015.
The 28-year-old forward ranks second on the franchise's all-time goals list (125) behind Rick Nash (289), and is coming off a career year in which he poured in 35 goals and 62 points while playing all 82 games.
Atkinson has notched at least 20 goals in each of the last four seasons, and his goal production has improved in each of the last three campaigns.
He has four goals and six points in 15 games so far this fall.
As Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman points out, an in-person hearing gives the NHL the option to suspend him for five or more games.
Gudas is a repeat offender, having been suspended during the preseason on Oct. 10 of last year for interference on Boston Bruins forward Austin Czarnik.
This week, NHL.com unveiled its semifinal matchups as it looks to crown the greatest moment in NHL history as part of the league's 100-year celebration.
Fans have voted on their favorites in a 64-moment bracket-style system. One semifinal pits Wayne Gretzky reaching the 50-goal mark in his 39th game against Mario Lemieux scoring five different goals in one game, while the other is a faceoff between Bobby Orr's historic overtime winner in the 1970 Stanley Cup Final and Teemu Selanne setting the NHL rookie goals record.
All four are worthy candidates, but there can only be one winner. Below, we remove the matchup tags and rank the four remaining moments:
4. Selanne lights up NHL in rookie season
Teemu Selanne burst onto the scene during the 1992-93 season, needing very little time to adjust to the pace of the NHL.
He began scoring at a rapid pace, and on March 2, 1993 - following a hat trick against the Quebec Nordiques - he eclipsed Mike Bossy's rookie record of 53 goals in a season.
The young Fin then acted out his memorable celebration of throwing his glove into the air and using his stick as a gun to shoot at it.
Selanne went on to score 76 goals and 132 points - both rookie records that remain intact.
3. Lemieux does it all
On New Year's Eve, 1988, Lemieux proved he could do it all.
The Pittsburgh Penguins captain capped off an eight-point game against the New Jersey Devils by scoring goals at even strength, on the power play, shorthanded, on a penalty shot, and into an empty net, becoming the first and only player in NHL history to do so.
The game was the gem of Lemieux's season, in which he led the league in goals and points with 85 and 199, respectively.
2. Gretzky's untouchable scoring blitz
It's a record that, unless Nikita Kucherov kicks it up a notch, might never be matched.
On Dec. 23, 1981, after Game 37 on the season, Wayne Gretzky sat at 41 goals. Little did anyone know he'd hit the 50-goal plateau less than a week later.
Following a four-goal outing against the Los Angeles Kings on Dec. 27, Gretzky outdid himself two nights later against the Philadelphia Flyers. He collected six goals to become the fastest player to reach the 50-goal mark.
Gretzky went on to score an NHL-record 92 goals that season and total 212 points (the second-most in a single season).
1. Orr soars
It's the NHL's most iconic goal.
On May 10, 1970, in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, Bobby Orr scored the overtime winner just 40 seconds into the extra frame, putting the puck past St. Louis Blues netminder Glenn Hall on a perfectly executed give-and-go with Derek Sanderson.
The goal was made more memorable when, upon being tripped by defenseman Noel Picard, Orr jumped in celebration, giving birth to an unforgettable photo.
"As I skated across, Glenn had to move across the crease and had to open his pads a little," Orr said in Andrew Podnieks book, "The Goal: Bobby Orr and the Most Famous Shot in Stanley Cup History,"according to Sportsnet's Luke Fox. "I was really trying to get the puck on net, and I did. As I went across, Glenn's legs opened. I looked back, and I saw it go in, so I jumped."
The goal gave the Bruins their first Stanley Cup in 29 years, and a statue of Orr airborne now sits immortalized outside TD Garden.
Schenn scored twice and notched three points as his St. Louis Blues cruised to a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night, and he's been consistently productive since joining his new club.
He has found a home on the Blues' top line with Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz, and while that assignment would be beneficial to any player, he's proving he belongs there.
The seventh-year center has 25 points in 20 games with the Blues, including 14 points in his last six games. Only Nikita Kucherov has a better points-per-game rate (2.4) than Schenn (2.3) in the NHL since Nov. 4.
Flyers general manager Ron Hextall has to be cringing with each subsequent multi-point game by his former forward, especially considering what the GM came away with in the trade he and Blues general manager Doug Armstrong consummated over the summer.
Lehtera was a healthy scratch Thursday night for the Flyers' shootout loss to the Winnipeg Jets, and he's been virtually invisible offensively, contributing a single point in 12 games. The 29-year-old doesn't have a track record of significant offensive production, but it has to be concerning to Hextall that the lone NHL-caliber piece he acquired in the deal is having trouble cracking the lineup.
Frost looks like a promising prospect, with 11 goals and 28 points in 21 games so far in his third season with the OHL's Greyhounds, but he's 18 years old and won't be wearing Flyers orange any time soon.
It's early, but Philadelphia is once again on the outside looking in in the Eastern Conference playoff picture about a quarter of the way through the season. The Flyers have lost three straight games and were shut out by the Minnesota Wild in consecutive contests before falling to the Jets on Thursday night.
The Flyers' top line of Claude Giroux, Sean Couturier and Jakub Voracek has been effective, but the club is missing the offensive depth that Schenn once gave them. Philadelphia ranks in the bottom third of the league in goals per game as a team, and their power-play efficiency has also dipped slightly from 19.5 percent in 2016-17 (14th) to 18.2 percent so far this season (18th).
Meanwhile, the Blues boast the best record in the Western Conference and the second best in the NHL behind the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Frost could very well develop into an indispensable NHL talent, but until that happens - if it even does - the Flyers will keep looking like the big losers in the trade.
MONTREAL (AP) Montreal coach Claude Julien called the Canadiens' loss to the lowly Arizona Coyotes ''embarrassing.''
The Canadiens blew three leads and the Coyotes won 5-4 on Thursday night for their first regulation victory of the season. Derek Stepan and Christian Fischer scored power-play goals in the third period for Arizona.
''It's more embarrassing than frustrating,'' Julien said. ''Unacceptable, especially given how we played in the first period. To be unable to remain concentrated for the next two periods. We've been talking about this team for two days, that we had to be careful. Very disappointing from us tonight.''
The last-place Coyotes (3-15-3), who have the worst goals-per-game ratio in the NHL, scored five goals for the first time this season. They had a combined five goals in their previous four games.
''This is what we were doing early on in the season when we were losing games,'' said Brendan Gallagher, who scored Montreal's first goal. ''We had to learn that lesson early on, but we fell back into some old habits. We get sloppy and take our foot off the gas pedal. We didn't work.''
Stepan tied it at 4 with a wrist shot from the crease at 4:54 of the third following a failed clearance by Jordie Benn. Gallagher was in the box for tripping.
Arizona scored again on the power play at 10:10, this time with Shea Weber penalized for slashing, when Brendan Perlini's shot ricocheted off Fischer's stick and in for the winner.
''The win is huge but the way we won is even better,'' Fischer said. ''We were so resilient the way we played, with contributions from top to bottom. We had a couple of good fights, which sparked us. Just an awesome team win.''
Brad Richardson, Christian Dvorak and Tobias Rieder also scored for the Coyotes, and Antti Raanta made 33 saves. Arizona snapped a five-game losing streak.
Weber, Paul Byron and Joe Morrow also scored for the Canadiens.
NOTES: The Canadiens are 2-2-1 on a six-game homestand that ends Saturday against Toronto. ... Goaltender Antti Niemi, claimed off waivers by the Canadiens on Tuesday, was Lindgren's backup.
UP NEXT
Coyotes: At Ottawa on Saturday night.
Canadiens: Host Toronto on Saturday night.
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