Corey Perry will finally make his debut tonight for the Dallas Stars tonight in Columbus. Perry has been sidelined with a broken foot suffered during training camp.

The Edmonton Oilers have announced forward Joakim Nygard will be out of action for two to four weeks with a rib injury.

Jared McCann, who has been listed as day-to-day by Pittsburgh, will be a game time decision tonight.

New Jersey's Nico Hischier is day-to-day with an "upper body injury" and did not take part in practice today.

Winnipeg's Bryan Little has been cleared for contact again, although coach Paul Maurice still isn't certain he'll play in the Jets' next game on Thursday.

In an update on a story we brought you earlier Wednesday, TSN Reporter Amanda Stein suggested on Twitter that the decision to have New Jersey Assistant GM Tom Fitzgerald serve as an assistant coach was made by head coach John Hynes. This was met with a flood of disbelief from her Twitter followers.

Arizona's Darcy Kuemper has now gone 11 straight games allowing two goals or less which ties the franchise record set by Nikolai Khabibulin.

And on this date 73 years ago (1946) Gordie Howe scored his first ever NHL goal, as his Detroit Red Wings played to a 3-3 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs. You can see the full stats for the game here.