Tuesday's clash between the Carolina Hurricanes and Nashville Predators is postponed due to COVID-19 protocol, reports ESPN's Greg Wyshynski.
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Ottawa Senators rookie Tim Stutzle is day-to-day with a minor injury, the team announced Tuesday.
The ailment is unspecified, but Stutzle is not participating in practice and is unavailable for Tuesday's clash versus the Winnipeg Jets.
Stutzle appeared in his first two NHL games last week, averaging 13:32 of action per contest and netting his first goal in Saturday's tilt against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Drafted third overall by the Senators in October, the 19-year-old is Ottawa's top prospect.
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Elias Lindholm believes new Calgary Flames goaltender Jacob Markstrom is worthy of the team's splashy offseason investment.
"For now, he deserves the contract," Lindholm said with a smile about his fellow Swede, according to Postmedia's Wes Gilbertson.
Markstrom signed a six-year, $36-million contract with the Flames as a free agent this offseason after seven campaigns in Vancouver. After shutting out the Canucks on Saturday, Markstrom picked up a second straight win against his former team on Monday, stopping 25 of 27 shots in the 5-2 victory.
Lindholm was especially impressed with Markstrom's performance early in Monday's contest.
"Obviously, the way the first period went he stole us a point or two there," Lindholm said, according to Sportsnet's Eric Francis. "We could have been out of the game there."
Vancouver outshot Calgary 16-4 in the first period and won the high-danger scoring chance battle 6-1, according to Natural Stat Trick. Markstrom held down the fort, allowing just one goal in the opening frame, and the Flames scored three second-period goals to secure the victory.
Markstrom now owns a sparkling .935 save percentage in three games with his new club.
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One of the NHL's most quietly impressive streaks came to an end on Monday.
Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Dougie Hamilton failed to record a shot on goal for the first time since April 5, 2016, ending a streak of 296 consecutive games, according to NHL.com's Michael Smith. It was the longest active streak in the NHL.
Hall of Famer Ray Bourque holds the all-time record of 360 straight contests with a shot on goal since the league began recording the statistic. Bourque also holds records for most career shots (6,206) and most shots in a single game (19).
Alex Ovechkin and Jeff Carter have come close to Bourque's streak in recent years, but both came up 45 games short, TSN's Frank Seravalli wrote in 2017.
Hamilton still managed to pick up an assist in Carolina's 4-2 win over the Nashville Predators. He'll have a chance to start a new streak Tuesday in the Music City.
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Arizona Coyotes captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson is expected to miss three-to-four weeks with a lower-body injury, the team confirmed Monday, according to AZ Central's Jose M. Romero.
Ekman-Larsson suffered the injury late in the third period of Saturday's contest against the San Jose Sharks, taking a hit behind the net from Sharks forward Evander Kane and spilling awkwardly into the boards. He left the game and didn't return.
"You pencil him in every night for 20-plus (minutes). He's a power-play guy, he's a penalty-kill guy. He's a big chunk of our team," Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet said, according to Romero. "We always talk about the old cliche, 'Next man up.' Well, we're going to need five, six men up on defense to help us out."
Ekman-Larsson had three assists against San Jose before exiting. The 29-year-old has averaged 19:22 of ice time across two games this season.
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The Winnipeg Jets will be without Patrik Laine versus the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday, as head coach Paul Maurice told Chris Johnston of Sportsnet that the winger is out due to an upper-body injury.
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The 2021 men's world championship will no longer be played in Minsk, the IIHF announced Monday.
The tournament - which the IIHF awarded to Minsk and the Latvian capital of Riga in 2017 - is being relocated due to political unrest in Belarus and the ongoing pandemic. Protests against Belarus' government and its authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, have been ongoing since he was re-elected last year.
"It is a very regrettable thing to have to remove the Minsk/Riga co-hosting bid," IIHF president Rene Fasel said in a statement. "During this process, we had tried to promote that the world championship could be used as a tool for reconciliation to help calm the socio-political issues happening in Belarus and find a positive way forward.
"And while the council feels that the world championship should not be used for political promotion by any side, it has acknowledged that hosting this event in Minsk would not be appropriate when there are bigger issues to deal with and the safety and security of teams, spectators, and officials to prioritize."
Last week, Skoda, a car manufacturer and longtime tournament sponsor, threatened to pull out if Belarus remained the co-host.
The IIHF will now consider hosting the event solely in Riga, although Fasel previously said that option isn't on the table.
Last year's tournament was canceled due to COVID-19.
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