Calgary Flames forward Dillon Dube has been granted an indefinite leave of absence to focus on his mental health, the team announced Sunday.

Dube has three goals and four assists in 43 games this season. He scored 18 goals in each of the previous two campaigns.

The 25-year-old has spent his entire six-year career in Calgary after being selected by the Flames in the second round of the 2016 NHL Draft.

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The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Calgary Flames 3-1 in Saturday's Battle of Alberta for their 13th consecutive victory, setting a new NHL record for the longest win streak by a Canadian team.

The benchmark was previously held by the 1967-68 Montreal Canadiens. The Oilers' current run matches the seventh-longest in league history and is the longest by any Western Conference team.

The all-time record belongs to the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins, who won 17 straight.

Edmonton set a franchise record with its 10th consecutive victory last week. The Oilers are now 23-6-0 since Kris Knoblauch took over for Jay Woodcroft as head coach on Nov. 12.

Ryan McLeod and Sam Gagner scored Saturday before Zach Hyman iced the win with an empty-netter. Goaltender Stuart Skinner, who entered the contest 18-4-0 with a .920 save percentage since Edmonton's coaching change, stifled the Flames with a 26-save performance.

The Oilers are now six points back of the Vegas Golden Knights for second spot in the Pacific Division with four games in hand.

Edmonton's next chance to extend its streak comes Tuesday against the 28th-place Columbus Blue Jackets.

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Florida Panthers forward William Lockwood has been suspended three games for goalie interference on Minnesota Wild veteran Marc-Andre Fleury, the NHL Department of Player Safety announced Saturday.

The incident occurred in the first period of Friday's clash. Fleury later left the game and was unable to return due to an upper-body injury.

Lockwood was given a minor penalty on the play. The 25-year-old has recorded one assist in 23 games this season, his first with the Panthers.

Fleury's status remains unknown. He's posted an .897 save percentage in 23 appearances this season and recently passed Patrick Roy for second place on the all-time wins list.

Minnesota's next game comes Sunday against the Carolina Hurricanes.

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Vancouver Canucks defenseman Quinn Hughes and forward J.T. Miller were the final two participants voted into the NHL All-Star Skills Competition, the league announced Saturday.

Hughes and Miller join 10 previously selected participants that will compete for the $1-million prize on Feb. 2. Here are all 12 players involved in the skills portion of All-Star Weekend:

Now that Hughes and Miller were voted in, the Vancouver Canucks lead the way with three participants.

Each player will compete in four of the first six events: Fastest skater, hardest shot, stick handling, one-timers, passing challenge, and accuracy shooting.

From there, the top eight point-earners advance to the seventh round, where players will choose which goaltender to shoot against in a shootout.

The final round features the top six point-earners in an obstacle course, where points will be doubled. The player with the most points after all eight rounds wins the $1-million prize.

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The New York Islanders dismissed bench boss Lane Lambert and tabbed Patrick Roy as his replacement, the club announced Saturday.

Roy, 58, was most recently the head coach and general manager of the QMJHL's Quebec Remparts from 2018-23. He resigned from the position after winning the Memorial Cup last spring.

He was the Colorado Avalanche's head coach from 2014-16 in his only NHL stint as a bench boss. Roy won the Jack Adams Award as Coach of the Year in his first campaign with the Avalanche, guiding them to a 52-22-8 regular-season record.

Colorado was bounced in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs that year, losing to the wild card Minnesota Wild in a seven-game series.

The Avalanche failed to make the postseason the following two seasons, leading to Roy's resignation in August 2016.

As a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player, Roy is regarded as one the best goaltenders of all time. He lifted four Stanley Cups as a netminder, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP on three occasions. Roy also won the Vezina Trophy three times and was named a year-end All-Star in six seasons.

Roy reflected on his previous NHL tenure in June, admitting that he made "some bad choices" with the Avalanche and that the way he left the team made it harder to get a subsequent NHL gig.

Lambert was named the Islanders' head coach in May 2022 after spending time as the team's associate coach under Barry Trotz. The former had a 61-46-20 record as the Isles' bench boss but lost in the first round of the playoffs in his only full season.

The New York job was his first as an NHL head coach. Previously, the 59-year-old was an assistant coach with the Nashville Predators and Washington Capitals, both under Trotz. He won the Stanley Cup with the Capitals in 2018 before following Trotz to Long Island, where he remained until his dismissal.

The Islanders have lost four straight and six of their last seven.

Lambert is the fifth head coach to be fired this season, joining Jay Woodcroft (Edmonton), Dean Evason (Minnesota), Craig Berube (St. Louis), and D.J. Smith (Ottawa).

The Islanders rank sixth in the Metropolitan Division with a 19-15-11 record. New York is coming off a 4-3 overtime loss against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday and takes on the Dallas Stars on Sunday.

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Linus Ullmark will start for the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night after missing the last four games due to injury, head coach Jim Montgomery confirmed.

The reigning Vezina Trophy winner is 13-5-2 with a .915 save percentage in 21 contests this season.

Ullmark posted a .938 save percentage en route to winning the hardware in 2022-23.

The Bruins are also getting two defensemen and a forward back as Brandon Carlo, Derek Forbort, and Matt Poitras will all make their returns as well.

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