Ice Chips: Jets D Schmidt a healthy scratch vs. VGK; G Brossoit to start
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Winnipeg Jets
Defenceman Nate Schmidt is a healthy scratch tonight against his former team, the Vegas Golden Knights.
Schmidt, 32, has zero points in three games to start the season and is a -3. Per TSN's John Lu, Jets head coach Rick Bowness said the team is giving up too many goals (13 in three games) and that there have been a couple of errors in Schmidt's game that prompted him being a healthy scratch. Logan Stanley draws in alongside Dylan Samberg.
Laurent Brossoit, who won a Stanley Cup last season with Vegas, gets the start tonight for his season debut.
David Gustafsson also draws into the lineup with Gabriel Vilardi out the next four-to-six weeks with a sprained MCL.
Montreal Canadiens
Defenceman Kaiden Guhle is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
Guhle left Tuesday's 5-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild after two periods with the injury and did not return to the game. He had 10:19 of ice time before departing.
The 21-year-old has one assist this season after recording four goals and 14 assists over 44 games during his rookie campaign in 2022-23.
Montreal selected Guhle 16th overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
The Canadiens are back in action Saturday night against the Washington Capitals.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Captain Steven Stamkos is back on the ice for today's morning skate at Amalie Arena as the team is set to host the Vancouver Canucks tonight.
He was doing line rushes alongside Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel on the second line and was working with the top power play unit alongside Victor Hedman, Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point and Nick Paul.
Stamkos has missed the Lightning's last two games with a lower-body injury. He appeared to get hurt on Saturday when blocking a shot in a 6-4 loss against the Detroit Red Wings. He did not play in Sunday's 5-2 loss to the Senators and missed Tuesday's 3-2 overtime loss to the Buffalo Sabres.
In two games this season, the 33-year-old has two goals and two assists. He is coming off a 2022-23 season where he scored 34 goals with 84 points in 81 games.
Florida Panthers
Head coach Paul Maurice confirmed there are no lineup changes for the Panthers tonight and Sergei Bobrovsky will get the start against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The 35-year-old is 1-2 in three appearances this season, recording an .888 save percentage and 3.42 goals-against average.
Florida is coming off a 4-3 win on Tuesday night against the New Jersey Devils after dropping their first two games of the season.
Buffalo Sabres
Defenceman Mattias Samuelsson is back on the ice for the morning skate after leaving Tuesday's 3-2 overtime win over the Tampa Bay Lightning with an upper-body injury. He played one shift before departing the game.
He was listed as day-to-day yesterday by head coach Don Granato.
The 23-year-old has one assist in three games this season. In 55 games in 2022-23, he had two goals and 10 points.
Samuelsson is in the first season of a seven-year, $30 million contract with an average annual value of $4.285 million.
Seattle Kraken
The Kraken have recalled forward Devin Shore from the AHL's Coachella Valley Firebirds.
He has skated in just one game for the Firebirds this season.
In 2022-23, he had one goal and nine points in 47 games with the Edmonton Oilers.
A second-round pick (61st overall) at the 2012 NHL Draft by the Dallas Stars, Shore has skated in 422 career NHL games, scoring 50 goals with 135 points, split between the Stars, Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Oilers.