Quick Hits: Injuries, Lines, Pairings and Goalies

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Quick Hits: Injuries, Lines, Pairings and Goalies

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Injuries: Chara, Baily, Lecavalier, Heatley, Killorn, Varlamov and Kane

Erik Erlendsson: Ryan Callahan not on ice, so not expecting to play Friday or Saturday.

Andy Strickland: Blues Carl Gunnarsson won’t play tonight.

Joe Smith: Lightning lines: Drouin-Filppula-Stamkos/Palat-Johnson-Connolly/Kucherov-Namestnikov-Brown/Morrow-Boyle-Blunden.

Randy Sportak: Flames lines: Colborne-Monahan-Hudler, Glencross-Stajan-Byron, Raymond-Backlund-Gaudreau, Bollig-Jooris-Bouma. Defensive pairings: Giordano-Brodie; Russell-Wideman; Smid-Engelland.

Columbus Blue Jackets: Projected Blue Jackets lineup: Hartnell-Johansen-Foligno, Letestu-Anisimov-Skille, Calvert-Wennberg-Atkinson , Cracknell-Chaput-Boll. Defensive pairings: Johnson-Savard , Erixon-Wisniewki , Tyutin-Prout

Tom Gulitti: Devils lines: Zubrus-Zajac-Jagr; Cammalleri-Elias-Brunner; Clowe-Henrique-Ryder; Ruutu-Josefson-Gionta/Gomez.

Ansar Khan: Red Wings lines: Abdelkader-Zetterberg-Datysuk, Tatar-Sheahan-Nyquist, Nestrasil-Helm-Jurco, Miller-Glendening-Andersson. Weiss. Cleary extras. Defensive pairings: Kronwall-Ericsson, Quincey-DeKeyser, Smith-Kindl (Lashoff rotating in).

Boston Bruins: Lines: Lucic-Krejci-Griffith Marchand-Bergeron-Smith Kelly-Soderberg-Eriksson Paille-Campbell-Gagne/Fraser. Defensive pairings: Chara-Hamilton Seidenberg-Krug Bartkowski-McQuaid

Lou Korac: Ryan Miller will start in net for the Canucks.

Randy Sportak: Jonas Hiller expected to start for the Flames.

Columbus Blue Jackets: Sergei Bobrovsky expected to start for the Blue Jackets.

Ansar Khan: Jimmy Howard will start in net for the Red Wings.

Mark Divver: Niklas Svedberg will be in net for the Bruins.

Sarah McLellan: Mike Smith will start in net for the Coyotes.

Jeremy Rutherford: Jake Allen will start in net for the Blues tonight. Brian Elliott will start on Saturday.

Michael Smith: Cam Ward will start in net for the Hurricanes.

Kevin Kurz: Antti Niemi will start in net for the Sharks.

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