Back by popular demand, here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished.
Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Toronto Maple Leafs, 7:30 p.m.
The first regular-season trip for Jets 2.0 to the Center of the Hockey Universe. Moweena, Manitoba's own James Reimer gets the call for the 3-0-1 Leafs. Pension Plan Puppets sets the scene: "Four games into the season, one wouldn't be incorrect in stating that this is some of the highest quality Leafs hockey witnessed since the lockout. Virtually every player is firing on all cylinders, and as a result the Leafs are on a 1.75 points per game pace, well above the requisite 1.16 points per game pace for entrance into the Playoffs." Plan the pa … OK we'll stop. Meanwhile, the Jets fans are looking forward to Operation Kessel Shutdown.
Check out previews and updated scores for all of today's games on the Y! Sports NHL scores and scheds page. For tonight's starting goalies, check out Left Wing Lock.
Evening Reading
• Mike Milbury has an ideological ally in … crooner Michael Bublé?! "I honestly can't stand what's happening in hockey right now. I don't think the players know what they can and can't get away with. I obviously think the players should have more respect for each other when they hit each other, but I saw [NHL head of player safety Brendan] Shanahan suspend a guy two games for high sticking. That's just crazy. It can't go on like this." [AOL Music, via @Jason_St_Angelo]
• Jeff Skinner is no longer Hockey Bieber — Patrick Kane is, according to Dan Carcillo, who has nicknamed him "Biebs." And Marian Hossa is "Enrique." Carcillo? He's Luigi. [@CarBombBoom13]
• Nazem Kadri was assigned to the Marlies by the Leafs and could be toiling there for a bit, considering the Leafs' situation at forward. [National Post]
• What's happened to Alex Ovechkin? [YCN]
• Willie Mitchell on Slava Voynov's debut for the Los Angeles Kings: "He's Russian, but last night I made a play behind the net, and I was probably going to move the puck and I heard him yell, `Mitchy, Mitchy, time.' I said, `Hey, that's when you know you've got a good player. A Russian is yelling English at you,' telling me that I had time." [LA Kings Insider]
• The update on Marc Staal is no update on Marc Staal, despite what MSG promised. [Blueshirt Banter]
• Jeremy Roenick is speaking his column to an editorial assistant blogging for NHL.com. [Roenick]
• What is the best goal "in recent years"? [NHL.com]
Puck Buddy Comment of the Day: Sarah D. on the German open-ice hit video —
"Now is zee time on Sprockets when vee get Kronvalled."
TOUCH MY MONKEY!
Bold Prediction: Kyle Wellwood scores for the Jets against the Leafs. Sadly, no one throws a waffle for him to devour.