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Ice Chips: Sens G Forsberg back at practice

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Ottawa Senators

Goalie Anton Forsberg is the latest member of the Ottawa Senators to exit COVID-19 protocol and return to practice.

Forsberg went into protocol on Dec. 27. The Sens currently have no players in protocol and will likely have a full roster for Wednesday's game against the Oilers in Edmonton.

Saturday's game against the Vancouver Canucks was postponed due to capacity limits.

The 29-year-old holds a 6-5-1 record with a 3.16 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage this season, his second year with the club.

Dallas Stars

Jake Oettinger will be in net against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.

Oettinger, 23, has a 7-2-0 record with a .922 save percentage and 2.24 GAA this season.

The Stars have assigned goaltender Adam Scheel to the team's taxi squad on Saturday.

Scheel, 25, has a 2-2-3 record with a .886 save percentage and 3.57 GAA with the AHL's Texas Stars this season.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Jack Campbell will be in net on Saturday against the Colorado Avalanche, according to head coach Sheldon Keefe.

Campbell, 29, has a 17-5-2 record with a .939 save percentage and 1.87 GAA this season.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Defenceman Zach Werenski has exited the NHL's COVID-19 protocol and is expected to play on Saturday against the New Jersey Devils.

Werenski, 24, has six goals and 20 points in 30 games this season.

Additionally, defenceman Jake Christiansen has been assigned to the AHL's Cleveland Monsters.

Christiansen, 22, did not record a point in the only game he appeared in with the Blue Jackets and has five goals and 18 points in 21 games with the Monsters.

Joonas Korpisalo will be in net on Saturday against the Devils.

Korpisalo, 27, has a 3-6-0 record with a .885 save percentage and 3.94 GAA this season.

The Blue Jackets used these lines during Saturday's morning skate:

Laine - Jenner- Nyquist

Voracek - Roslovic - Bjorkstrand

Chinakhov - Sillinger - Domi

Robinson - Kuraly - Bemstrom

Werenski - Bean

Gavrikov -Boqvist

Kukan - Peeke

Korpisalo

Berube

Philadelphia Flyers

Martin Jones will be in net on Saturday against the San Jose Sharks.

Jones, 31, has a 6-5-1 record with a .906 save percentage and 3.66 GAA this season.

The Flyers have activated forward Jackson Cates and defenceman Nick Seeler from the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Saturday.

Cates, 24, has a goal in four games with the Flyers this season as well as two goals and six points in 20 games with the AHL's Lehigh Valley Phantoms.

The Stillwater, Minn., native has been added to the Flyers' active roster from the taxi squad.

Seeler has not registered a point in 23 games with the Flyers this season.

Additionally, forward Connor Bunnaman and defenceman Egor Zamula have been added to the Flyers' taxi squad from the active roster.

Bunnaman, 23, did not register a point in five appearances with the Flyers and has four goals and six points in 24 games with the Phantoms this season.

Zamula, 21, did not register a point in the only game he appeared in with the Flyers this season and has three goals and 14 points in 25 games with the Phantoms.

New Jersey Devils

Mackenzie Blackwood is expected to start on Saturday against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Blackwood, 25, has a 9-7-3 record with a .899 save percentage and a 3.20 GAA this season.

The Devils have placed forwards Nathan Bastian and Jesper Bratt on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Saturday.

Bastian, 24, has five goals and seven points in 29 games this season.

Bratt, 23, has 10 goals and 32 points in 34 games this season.

Additionally, the Devils have recalled forwards A.J. Greer, Marian Studenic, Nolan Foote, and defenseman Colton White from the taxi squad to Devils' active roster.

Greer, 25, has four goals and 15 points in 22 games with the AHL's Utica Comets this season.

Studenic, 23, has not recorded a point in 14 appearances with the Devils and has five goals and 10 points in 13 games with the Comets this season.

Foote, 21, did not record a point in his only appearance with the Devils this season and has four goals and 10 points in 22 games with the Comets.

White, 26, has one assist in six games with the Devils and three goals in five games with the Comets.

Vancouver Canucks

The Canucks have assigned forwards Justin Bailey, Sheldon Rempal, defenceman Ashton Sautner, and goaltender Spencer Martin to the team's taxi squad on Saturday.

Bailey, 26, has not registered a point in 10 appearances with Vancouver and has eight goals and 13 points in 18 games with the AHL's Abbotsford Canucks this season.

Rempal, 26, has nine goals and 22 points in 24 games with Abbotsford this season.

Sautner, 27, has two assists in 21 games with Abbotsford this season.

Martin, 26, has a 5-0-2 record with a .921 save percentage and 2.24 GAA in Abbotsford this season.

Forward Brock Boeser has cleared the NHL's COVID-19 protocol and the Canucks are hoping he can join the team in Florida.

Boeser, 24, has nine goals and 17 points in 28 games this season.

Pittsburgh Penguins

The Penguins have placed forwards Bryan Rust and Brock McGinn on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Saturday.

McGinn, 27, has nine goals and 13 points in 33 games this season.

Rust, 29, has nine goals and 20 points in 15 games this season.

Forward Jeff Carter will return to the lineup against the Dallas Stars on Saturday.

Carter, 37, has not played since Dec. 19 and was added to the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Dec. 31.

The London, Ont., native has nine goals and 17 points in 27 games this season.

Tristan Jarry will be in net on Saturday against the Stars.

Jarry, 26, has a 17-5-4 record with a .933 save percentage and 1.90 GAA this season.

Boston Bruins

The Bruins used these lines during Saturday's morning skate:

Marchand - Bergeron - Smith

Hall - Haula -Pastrnak

Foligno - Coyle - Steen

Blidh - Frederic - Lazar

Grzelcyk - McAvoy

Reilly - Carlo

Forbort - Clifton

Ullmark

Swayman

Florida Panthers

The Panthers have placed forward Patric Hornqvist on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Saturday.

Hornqvist, 35, has seven goals and 17 points in 35 games this season.

Sergei Bobrovsky will start on Saturday against the Carolina Hurricanes, according to interim head coach Andrew Brunette.

Bobrovsky, 33, has a 15-3-3 record with a .918 save percentage and 2.56 GAA this season.

New York Rangers

The Rangers have recalled forwards Anthony Greco and Lauri Pajuniemi from the AHL's Hartford Wolf Pack to be added to the Rangers' taxi squad on Saturday.

Greco, 28, has seven goals and 23 points in 26 games with the Wolf Pack this season.

Pajuniemi, 22, has seven goals and 15 points in 27 games with the Wolf Pack this season.

Arizona Coyotes

Karel Vejmelka will start in net on Saturday against the Nashville Predators, according to PHNX Sports' Craig Morgan.

Vejmelka, 25, has a 3-12-1 record with a .906 save percentage and 3.25 GAA this season.

Additionally, Riley Nash will make his Coyotes debut against the Predators after being claimed off waivers from the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday.

Nash, 32, has not registered a point this season in 25 games split between the Lightning and the Winnipeg Jets.

Forward Barrett Hayton is expected to have surgery on his hand and could miss five-to-eight weeks, according to Morgan.

Hayton, 21, has two goals and six points in 26 games this season.

Minnesota Wild

Defenceman Jonas Brodin is expected to be out long term with an upper-body injury according to head coach Dean Evason.

The injury occurred during the third period of Thursday's 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins after blocking a shot.

Brodin, 28, has three goals and 16 points in 29 games this season.

The Wild have activated forwards Victor Rask, Kyle Rau, and defenceman Dakota Mermis from their taxi squad and placed forwards Joel Eriksson-Ek and Kirill Kaprizov on injured reserve on Saturday.

Kaprizov left Thursday's 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins in the second period after taking a hit along the boards from Bruins forward Trent Frederic.

Kaprizov, 24, has 14 goals and 40 points in 32 games this season.

Eriksson-Ek sustained an upper-body injury during the Wild's 7-4 loss to the Dallas Stars on Dec. 20.

Eriksson-Ek, 24, has 11 goals and 20 points in 30 games this season.

Rask, 28, has four goals and 10 points in 21 games this season.

Rau, 29, has not recorded a point in three appearances in Minnesota this season and has eight goals and 19 points in 20 games with the AHL's Iowa Wild.

Mermis, 28, has two goals and six points in 18 games with Iowa this season.

The Wild will also be without forwards Nick Bjugstad, Brandon Duhaime, Jordan Greenway, defencemen Alex Goligoski, Jared Spurgeon, and goaltender Cam Talbot for Saturday's game against the Washington Capitals.

Bjugstad, 29, has been out since Jan 1. with an upper-body injury and has four goals and five points in 28 games this season.

Duhaime, 24, has been out since Jan 1. after being put in the NHL's COVID-19 protocol and has three goals and 10 points in 31 games this season.

Greenway, 24, has been out since Jan 1. after being put in the NHL's COVID-19 protocol and has four goals and nine points in 26 games this season.

Goligoski, 36, was added to the NHL's COVID-19 protocol on Saturday.

The Grand Rapids, Mich., native has two goals and 21 points in 29 games this season.

Spurgeon, 32, has not played since Dec. 16 due to a lower-body injury and has three goals and 11 points in 21 games this season.

Talbot, 34, has not played since Jan 1. due to a lower-body injury and has a 15-8-1 record with a .909 save percentage and 3.00 GAA this season.

Los Angeles Kings

The Kings have recalled forward Austin Wagner from the AHL's Ontario Reign on Saturday.

Wagner, 24, has four goals and seven points in 19 games with the Reign this season.

Additionally, the Kings have assigned forward Samuel Fagemo to the Reign.

Fagemo, 21, eight goals and 11 points in 24 games with the Reign this season.

Cal Petersen is expected to start in net against the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday, according to Lisa Dillman of the Athletic.

Petersen, 27, has a 5-5-1 record with a .893 save percentage and 3.10 GAA this season.

Defenceman Olli Maatta will be in the lineup on Saturday, according to Dillman.

Maatta, 27, has not played since Dec. 19 after being put in the NHL's COVID-19 protocol.

The Finland native has one goal and three points in 19 games this season.

Edmonton Oilers

The Oilers have placed forwards Kailer Yamamoto, Brendan Perlini, defencemen Slater Koekkoek, Evan Bouchard, goaltender Ilya Konovalov, and six support staff on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Saturday.

Yamamoto, 23, has seven goals and 12 points in 34 games this season.

Perlini, 25, has two goals and three points in 17 games this season.

Koekkoek, 27, has three assists in 17 games this season.

Bouchard, 22, has six goals and 19 points in 34 games this season.

Konovalov, 23, has a 3-3-2 record with a .900 save percentage and 2.48 GAA with the AHL's Bakersfield Condors this season.

Chicago Blackhawks

Marc-Andre Fleury will be in net on Saturday against his former team, the Vegas Golden Knights, according to head coach Derek King.

Fleury, 37, has a 9-11-2 record with a .907 save percentage and 3,01 GAA this season.

Vegas Golden Knights

Robin Lehner will start in net against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday, according to David Schoen of the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Lehner, 30, has a 15-9-0 record with a .906 save percentage and 2.95 GAA this season.

Anaheim Ducks

Forwards Ryan Getzlaf and Nicolas Deslauriers have cleared the NHL's COVID-19 protocol but only Deslauriers will play on Saturday against the Rangers, according to head coach Dallas Eakins.

Getzlaf, 36, will miss his third consecutive game after being placed in the NHL's COVID-19 protocols.

The Regina, Sask., native has two goals and 22 points in 29 games this season.

Deslauriers, 30, has a goal and five points in 35 games this season.

San Jose Sharks

The Sharks have placed forward Nick Bonino and assistant coach John MacLean in the NHL's COVID-19 protocol on Saturday.

Bonino, 33, has five goals and seven points in 35 games this season.

Calgary Flames

The Flames have assigned forward Byron Froese to the AHL's Stockton Heat from the Flames' taxi squad on Saturday.

Froese, 30, has seven goals and 14 points in 16 games with the Heat this season.

Additionally, forward Adam Ruzicka has been moved from the Flames active roster to their taxi squad on Saturday.

Ruzicka, 22, has a goal in five games with the Flames and 10 goals and 16 points in 13 games with the Heat this season.