Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.

Montreal Canadiens

The Montreal Canadiens have recalled goaltender Cayden Primeau from the AHL's Laval Rocket on an emergency basis, the team announced on Sunday.

Carey Price did not speak to the media following Saturday's loss to the Ottawa Senators as he was receiving treatment. The team has confirmed that Primeau has been recalled to play in place of Price and will backup Samuel Montembeault tonight against the Boston Bruins.

Head coach Martin St. Louis says that Price has played a lot over the past week and that he will be given a break from travel with the intention of playing Friday's season finale against the Florida Panthers.

Primeau has a 1-7-1 record with a 4.6a goals-against average and .868 save percentage in 12 NHL games this season. 

Toronto Maple Leafs

Head coach Sheldon Keefe confirmed that Auston Matthews will play tonight against the Washington Capitals. John Tavares (load management) will not play, while defenceman Timothy Liljegren will also be out of the lineup.

Defenceman Jake Muzzin will miss his sixth-straight game with an undisclosed injury.

Edmonton Oilers

Neither defenceman Darnell Nurse (lower-body injury) and forward Jesse Puljujarvi (non-COVID illness) made the trip to Columbus on Sunday for their matchup with the Blue Jackets.

Head coach Jay Woodcroft said Nurse is considered day-to-day and is anticipated to be ready for the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Nurse suffered the injury in the second period of Friday's matchup with the Colorado Avalanche. He left the game and did not return.

Mikko Koskinen will get the start in net Sunday, tweets Oilers TV's Tony Brar.

The Oilers lines against the Blue Jackets are below:

 

Kane-McDavid-Yamamoto 
McLeod-Draisaitl-Hyman
Foegele-RNH-Ryan
Brassard-Shore-Kassian

Russell-Ceci
Keith-Bouchard
Kulak-Barrie

Koskinen

Ottawa Senators

The Ottawa Senators have re-assigned goaltender Filip Gustavsson and forwards Mark Kastelic and Scott Sabourin to the AHL's Belleville Senators.

Postmedia's Bruce Garrioch tweets that the move is, at least in part, to help Belleville qualify for the postseason.

Goaltender Kevin Mandolese has been recalled from Belleville.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Rookie forward Yegor Chinakhov will return to the lineup for the Blue Jackets Sunday against the Edmonton Oilers, tweets The Athletic's Aaron Portzline.

Chinakhov has been out since April 2 with an upper-body injury. He will draw in for Brendan Gaunce, Portzline tweets.

Meanwhile, goaltender Elvis Merzlinkins will get the start in net against Edmonton. 

Washington Capitals

Vitek Vanecek will get the start in net Sunday against the Toronto Maple Leafs, head coach Peter Laviolette announced.

Vanecek is 20-11-5 with a .910 save percentage and a goals-against average of 2.60 in 40 games so far this season, his second with the Caps.

Detroit Red Wings

The Red Wings have signed defenceman Simon Edvinsson to a three-year entry-level contract beginning in the 2022-23 season.

 Edvinsson, 19, was selected by the Red Wings with the 6th overall selection in the 2021 NHL Draft.

New Jersey Devils

Devils forward Nico Hischier will not play Sunday due to a non-COVID illness, the team announced.

 The 23-year-old has 21 goals and 59 points in 69 games this season.

The Devils are expected to play with 11 forward and seven defencemen due to the current flu/illness affecting the roster.

Sharangovich - Mercer - Bratt
Johnsson - Boqvist - Tatar
Foote - Zacha - Kuokkanen
McLeod - Bastian

Graves - Severson
Bahl - Hamilton
Smith/Okhotiuk - Subban

Hammond