NHL Buzz: Subban out relaxation of season for Devils
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Fresh Jersey Devils
P.K. Subban will no longer play all all over again this season on legend of the defenseman is aloof recovering from COVID-19.
“He has yet to skate,” Devils coach Lindy Ruff said Saturday.
The Devils own two video games remaining, on the Fresh York Islanders on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; MSG+, MSG+2, NHL.TV) and on the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday.
Subban has overlooked the previous 10 video games since being placed in NHL COVID-19 protocol on April 20. He hasn’t played since April 18.
He scored 19 aspects (five dreams, 14 assists) in 44 video games this season. Subban turn into once a minus-16 and averaged 22: 21 per game. He leads Devils defensemen with 99 shots on diagram.
Fresh Jersey (19-28-7) is seventh within the eight-team MassMutual East Division and has been eradicated from Stanley Cup Playoff rivals. The tip four groups within the division — the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins and Islanders — own licensed for the playoffs. — Dan Rosen
Chicago Blackhawks
Defenseman Duncan Keith and ahead Brett Connolly are in concussion protocol and can no longer play within the closing two regular-season video games for the Blackhawks.
Every own been injured in Chicago’s 2-1 extra time protect against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday. Keith fell alongside the boards and collided with a linesman at 9: 49 of the first duration and didn’t return for the originate of the 2d. Connolly collided with Hurricanes ahead Steven Lorentz within the 2d duration.
Keith scored 15 aspects (four dreams, 11 assists) in 54 video games this season. Connolly, bought in a commerce from the Florida Panthers with defenseman Riley Stillman on April 8, scored six aspects (three dreams, three assists) in 31 video games this season, two (one diagram, one abet) in 10 video games with the Blackhawks.
The Blackhawks host the Dallas Stars on Sunday (7 p.m. ET; NHLN, SN, NBCSCH, BSSW, NHL.TV) and Monday. Chicago has been eradicated from Stanley Cup Playoffs rivals.
Ahead Ryan Carpenter (concussion protocol) and defenseman Calvin de Haan (hip) practiced on Saturday but are no longer going to play the closing two video games. De Haan final played on April 21 against the Nashville Predators and Carpenter final played April 23 against Nashville.
“It’s mostly resplendent making an try to acquire them [to where] with any luck they can saunter away feeling healthy and 100 percent,” Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton said Saturday. “Neither one in all them is cleared to play yet.” — Tracey Myers
Boston Bruins
Ondrej Kase could well perchance return to the lineup from an upper-body hurt Monday or Tuesday.
The ahead has no longer played since sustaining the hurt against the Fresh Jersey Devils on Jan. 16. He has no aspects in two video games this season.
“There is a chance once he’s in contact,” coach Bruce Cassidy said Friday. “It wasn’t a fleshy-blown, heart-of-the-Twelve months apply, but there turn into once some jostling within the market, some struggling with. So let’s mediate about how he feels the following day.”
Cassidy said Kase wouldn’t play when the Bruins host the Fresh York Rangers (3 p.m. ET; NBC, NESN, MSG), but could well perchance return for one in all the closing two video games of the regular season, against the Fresh York Islanders on Monday or on the Washington Capitals on Tuesday.
“If there could be no ill effects for him the following day that surely u.s.his probabilities for Monday or Tuesday,” Cassidy said. “That can rely on the set we’re, what’s the most efficient fit for us. After which, is he ready? What’s easiest for him to boot?”
The Bruins (32-14-7) own clinched a berth within the playoffs. They are third within the East, two aspects within the encourage of the 2d-spot Capitals and four aspects within the encourage of the first-spot Pittsburgh Penguins. — Amalie Benjamin