Although he is set to miss his seventh straight game tonight against St. Louis due to an upper body injury, Predators defenseman P.K. Subban could be available for Nashville’s next contest which happens to be against his former team, the Montreal Canadiens, notes Adam Vingan of The Tennessean.
General Manager David Poile provided an update on Subban’s status:
“We’re still on a day-to-day situation. … Where I sit today, I’m hoping that P.K. in the next couple of days will be in a position where he’ll want to be getting on the ice. Hopefully after these two games, he actually could be playing Tuesday against Montreal. If that’s not the case, then we’ll have another update at that time.”
Subban remains on the active roster despite being out of the lineup for the last two weeks. If the team needs to bring someone up to take his place, he can be retroactively placed on injured reserve which would allow them to activate him as soon as he’s ready to return.
The 27 year old sits second in team scoring from the blueline with seven goals and ten assists in 29 games, two points behind Roman Josi.
More from Nashville:
- After being claimed off waivers from the Devils in early December, left winger Reid Boucher is starting to settle in with the team, writes Brooks Bratten on the Predators’ team website. Boucher played the day after joining the Preds but was later sent on a conditioning assignment after being scratched for several games. He fared quite well in that stint with four goals and an assist in five games and has been in Nashville’s lineup in each of the past two games. A natural scorer in junior, Boucher will need to continue to work on his all-around game if he wants to stay in the lineup as he has yet to produce consistently at the NHL level.
- Left winger James Neal left yesterday’s game with an upper body injury and is questionable to play tonight against St. Louis, Bratten notes in a separate column. If he’s unable to return, winger Colton Sissons will likely draw back into the lineup. Neal leads the Predators in goals this season with 14 in 31 games.