The list of Boston Bruins players not heading overseas for their preseason games in China continues to grow, with action set to begin in just over a week.

During the Boston Bruins Foundation Golf Tournament on Tuesday, head coach Bruce Cassidy announced that Noel Acciari, Zdeno Chara, Danton Heinen, Torey Krug, and Sean Kuraly won't make the trip to China for two preseason games against the Calgary Flames, the first in Shenzhen on Sept. 15 and the second in Beijing on the 19th.

Heinen and Kuraly have been excused by the team after they went to China as part of the Bruins Global trip this summer. Meanwhile, Krug and Acciari are both coming off injuries and will play games in Boston. Both are expected to be ready for the beginning of the regular season, the team stated.

Last week, forward Patrice Bergeron told reporters he wouldn't be participating in the games as he continues to rehab from offseason surgery. However, like Krug and Acciari, he is expected to be in the lineup for the team's season opener against the Washington Capitals on Oct. 3.

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The Washington Capitals might be celebrating their Stanley Cup win just a little too enthusiastically.

Capitals players have been frequently doing keg stands out of the Cup during the trophy's turn with each member of the roster this summer. However, it's become evident that keg stands could damage the Cup, and now players and team staff have been asked to refrain from performing them.

"We ask them politely not to do it," Philip Pritchard, the Hockey Hall of Fame's Keeper of the Cup, told Isabelle Khurshudyan of The Washington Post. "We're trying to preserve the history of the Stanley Cup. We don't want any unnecessary damage to it or a person, in case they drop the person or he presses too hard or something."

The Capitals are the first team to regularly perform keg stands out of the Cup. Jimmy Fallon even did one when Alex Ovechkin and Braden Holtby made their appearance on "The Tonight Show" in June.

Pritchard says the Cup will be taken apart and cleaned at the end of the summer, and he'll be able to see what kind of stress doing keg stands has had on it.

"We'll see what happens as we move forward with the Cup," Pritchard said. "At the end of September, the Cup is going in to get engraved and updated and cleaned and everything, so we'll see how it is because we have to take it apart then and everything. We'll know probably more then in early October, once it's back for the home opener. Our biggest thing is respect for it."

For now, it seems the Capitals and subsequent teams will have to resort to celebrating in water fountains.

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The Ottawa Senators have appointed Chris Kelly as their new development coach, the team announced Tuesday.

Kelly, along with fellow development coach (and former Senators forward) Shean Donovan, will work closely with the club's prospects.

The 37-year-old Kelly played eight of his 15 years in the NHL with the Senators, where he put up 80 goals and 188 points in 545 games. Over his NHL career, Kelly tallied 123 goals and 291 points in 845 games.

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The Winnipeg Jets signed captain Blake Wheeler to a five-year contract extension worth $41.25 million, the team announced Tuesday.

More to come.

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Mikkel Boedker played his junior hockey in Canada, but after stints with three American clubs in 10 NHL seasons, an offseason trade will bring the Danish winger back to the Great White North.

A June trade sent Boedker from the San Jose Sharks to the Ottawa Senators, and while on the surface it looks like he's leaving a contender for a team in a tailspin, Boedker is intrigued by the Senators' potential.

"I'm very much (excited)," Boedker told Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun. "It's a good opportunity to play some good hockey and join a Canadian franchise that's about to turn the ship around. It's good to be part of something like that."

The hope is that Boedker will offset some of the production lost from forward Mike Hoffman, who was shipped to the Sharks in the same deal (then later flipped to the Florida Panthers).

Boedker finished with 37 points in 74 appearances last season, however 29 points came in the 45 games once the calendar turned to 2018. The 28-year-old believes the Senators can have a similar turnaround this season after finishing in 30th place last season.

"When people talk about Ottawa I don't think they give them enough credit because I think there's a lot of capable players and a lot players that have done some damage in their careers on the stats sheet," Boedker said. "I still think it's a very capable team and we've just got to get back to that. We've just got to get back to where it's all in every night and every night matters."

The Senators kick off the 2018-19 campaign against the Chicago Blackhawks on Oct. 4.

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