Detroit Red Wings veteran Patrick Kane is confident he'll be in the lineup when the club returns from All-Star festivities and the ensuing bye week.

"I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be able to come back after the break," Kane said Tuesday.

Kane has missed six games since suffering a lower-body injury against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Jan. 14. Detroit takes on the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday and then is off until Feb. 10.

The 35-year-old asserted that the injury has nothing to do with the hip he had surgically repaired over the offseason.

"Nothing with the hip, which is good," Kane said. "The hip feels really good, to be honest with you. At the same time, it's frustrating when it's feeling good and something else comes up and shows up. But, you know, I guess you try to find the positives in every situation, and maybe it gives me a few weeks to let everything settle down."

Kane joined the Red Wings on a one-year deal in November and racked up 16 points in 19 games before his injury. Detroit currently occupies the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with 57 points.

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Injured New Jersey Devils star Jack Hughes is being replaced by teammate Jesper Bratt in the upcoming All-Star Game while New York Islanders forward Mathew Barzal will take Hughes' spot in the All-Star Skills Competition, the NHL announced Tuesday.

Hughes was labeled week-to-week with an unspecified injury Jan. 9 and hasn't played since. He'll still attend the event in Toronto and co-captain his team in the All-Star player draft alongside his brother, Quinn.

Bratt has never been an NHL All-Star before. His 50 points in 47 games lead the Devils, though Jack Hughes only trails by five despite being been limited to 32 appearances this season.

Barzal was previously chosen as the Isles' lone representative for the weekend. He's second on New York this season with 51 points and has already been to two All-Star Games in his eight-year career.

The skills competition will use a new format this year, with 12 players participating in a series of events with cumulative scoring for a $1-million prize.

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Connor McDavid doesn't seem concerned about pursuing his sixth Art Ross Trophy as long as the Edmonton Oilers keep winning.

The reigning MVP, who won the scoring title with a career-high 153 points last season, said the club finding ways to win without him or Leon Draisaitl lighting up the scoresheet is a positive for Edmonton's playoff aspirations.

"It's not one of those years where everyone's going to be writing about all these big numbers and stuff like that. But, we've been there and done that," McDavid said, per Sportsnet's Mark Spector. "It's about being a part of something, and I think it's a good thing that no one's writing about Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl leading the way."

McDavid ranks fifth in league scoring with 67 points in 43 games, 18 back of leader Nathan MacKinnon, while Draisaitl sits 14th with 57 points. Their lower-than-normal numbers aren't a concern at the moment since the Oilers are on a 16-game win streak and are 26-6-0 under new head coach Kris Knoblauch.

"Is it great to produce offensively? Of course, it is," McDavid said. "But we want to be a part of something; we want to be part of a team and a group that can do some damage later in the year."

McDavid credited Edmonton's new defensive structure for the club's surge up the standings.

"We're playing a little bit of a different system than we've ever played here before, and we're getting comfortable in it," he said. "You can see in the (defensive) zone, there seems to be way less running around. It's a lot calmer."

Edmonton has vaulted to third in the Pacific with 59 points after a disastrous start to the campaign. The Oilers' next game comes on Feb. 6 against the Vegas Golden Knights, and a victory over their division rivals would match the longest win streak in NHL history.

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Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk hopes his team's 4-3 overtime victory over the Nashville Predators on Monday night can serve as a statement game for his team amid a roller-coaster campaign.

"It's been challenging, it's been hard," he told Sportsnet postgame. "We've just gotta keep finding ways to win hockey games. … It's time for us to show who we are. I think we're going to do that."

The Senators were down 3-0 entering the second period, prompting interim head coach Jacques Martin to replace Mads Sogaard in net with Joonas Korpisalo. Drake Batherson, Tim Stutzle, and Brady Tkachuk then all scored to erase the three-goal deficit.

Batherson said Parker Kelly got the Senators "fired up" with a speech after the opening frame.

"We were pretty frustrated after getting smoked (7-2 to the New York Rangers) last game and coming out in the first and being down 3-zip," he said. "So had to do something, and a couple of the guys spoke up. Obviously, we came out and played a totally different game."

After a scoreless third stanza, veteran forward Claude Giroux netted the overtime winner. The tally marked his fifth career game-winner when down by three goals or more, tied with Glenn Anderson for the most in league history, per NHL PR.

"We showed our maturity from all the lessons that we've had to learn and in the past could've gotten away from us. But we stuck to it, stuck to our game," Tkachuk said. "Really emphasized on doing it as a team versus trying to overdo it individually."

Ottawa has now collected at least one point in six of its last seven games. Martin hailed the comeback as "a great team effort."

"Handling adversity, we've been better. We've also been better at executing, we spend more time in the offensive zone," he said.

The Senators sit in last place in the Atlantic Division with a 19-25-2 record and are 17 points behind the Detroit Red Wings for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

Ottawa will face Detroit on Wednesday for its last game before the All-Star break.

"It's a big game," Giroux said. "Where we are in the standings, it's not pretty, but we've just gotta go one game at a time."

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Sat and Israel are joined by Julian McKenzie to discuss where this season so far has left the Calgary Flames within the trade market. The guys discuss the potential fit of Elias Lindholm if he were to be traded to Vancouver and how he seems to constantly play better and produce more when surrounded by more talent. Don Taylor then joins the show to further discuss trade options for Vancouver as we inch closer to the deadline including the possibility of trading a defenceman like Zadorov to go after a top six forward. 

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Satiar Shah is joined by Israel Fehr on Canucks Central to discuss what has made the canucks so successful this season and how it is a sustainable style of play moving forward for the rest of this season. The guys break down the play of Pettersson with so many different linemates so far this season and dive into how bringing in external help is the only way to make this team better than they already are. 

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Buffalo Sabres winger Jack Quinn is expected to miss eight weeks after undergoing surgery to address a lower-body injury, sources told The Buffalo News' Lance Lysowski.

Quinn suffered the ailment during Saturday's 5-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks. He had to be helped off the ice after being shoved into the boards by Sharks forward Tomas Hertl in the third period and was unable to return to the contest.

Quinn missed the first 32 games of the campaign after undergoing Achilles surgery in June. He made his season debut on Dec. 19 and racked up five goals and 12 points in 17 games before sustaining his latest injury.

This lower-body issue is unrelated to his previous Achilles injury, and there's no damage to his knee, per Lysowski. Under his current timeline, the 22-year-old may return in late March.

Quinn has totaled 20 goals and 51 points in 94 games as a Sabre. Buffalo selected him eighth overall in the 2020 NHL Draft.

The Sabres sit sixth in the Atlantic Division with a 22-23-4 record and are nine points out of a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

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Gimme a break! Canucks certainly get a well-earned one as the first-place team in the NHL, but Matt and Blake still have lots to chat about, including a comeback win in the last game before the All-Star festivities… The guys look at the key milestones hit already, with Brock Boeser at 30 goals now, and others on amazing clips as well. 

Frank Corrado stops by his reaction to the weekend that was for the Canucks, and what the home crowd means to the players in games like that one. Plus, he weighs in on whether the Canucks in 2024 are better than the Canucks of 2011, and what it’s like to play in Vancouver during the playoffs. 

Rink Wide: Vancouver host Jeff Paterson gives his post-game report, and what’s ahead in the final month before the trade deadline, and where the Canucks have learned they need to add. 

All that, plus some NFL chat as the Super Bowl is set! Presented by Applewood Auto Group.

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