The Vancouver Canucks have sent Brock Boeser back to Vancouver to see a specialist, the team confirmed Thursday.

Boeser missed Tuesday's contest against the Detroit Red Wings - the first leg of his team's current six-game road trip - with a groin injury.

The 21-year-old will miss Thursday's matchup with the Boston Bruins, but the Canucks haven't ruled out the possibility of Boeser re-joining at some point during their current road swing, which won't conclude until next Thursday.

"He's gotten better, but he isn't over the hump yet," head coach Travis Green said.

Boeser had begun to turn things around after a slow start to the season, notching two goals and four points against the Colorado Avalanche on Friday.

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Rookie Brady Tkachuk will return to the Ottawa Senators' lineup Thursday for their clash with the Vegas Golden Knights after missing the past nine games with a torn ligament in his leg, the team announced.

Tkachuk has been limited to just four appearances early in his first NHL season, as Thursday's contest will mark his first since Oct. 15. The 19-year-old has been incredibly productive when healthy, having put up three goals and six points in four games.

After suffering through more off-ice distractions earlier in the week, the Senators will be looking to build off Tuesday's commanding 7-3 win over the New Jersey Devils.

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Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin will not face supplemental discipline for his hit on Washington Capitals forward T.J. Oshie on Wednesday, according to Sportsnet's Chris Johnston.

Malkin was deemed to have been bracing for impact just before making contact with Oshie and didn't change the angle of his elbow or his stick prior to the collision, Johnston notes.

The Pittsburgh center was ejected from the game and assessed a match penalty on the play. Oshie had the last laugh, as he returned to the game and scored the game-winning goal with just over a minute left in regulation.

Oshie said postgame that after picking up the 2-1 win, he wasn't concerned about Malkin's hit and didn't care whether the league determined it required discipline.

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Tampa Bay Lightning forward Ondrej Palat will miss four weeks with a lower-body injury, the team announced Thursday.

The 27-year-old missed Tampa Bay's last six games after blocking a shot in an Oct. 26 contest against the Vegas Golden Knights. With little progress being made in the recovery, the team decided to shut him down for a few weeks, head coach Jon Cooper noted Wednesday, according to Joe Smith of The Athletic.

Palat has struggled to begin the 2018-19 campaign. Through nine games he remains goalless with just five assists and 10 shots.

The Lightning, meanwhile, have been rolling with three straight victories and four in their last five contests, propelling them to the top of the Eastern Conference.

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Ottawa Senators forward Matt Duchene faced the music for the first time since a video showing him and six of his teammates in an Uber in Phoenix mocking assistant coach Martin Raymond went viral Monday.

Following the Senators 7-3 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday, Duchene spoke to reporters apologizing profusely to Raymond for the team's remarks.

"I can only say what I'm about to say on the matter, I want to take this opportunity to extend my absolutely sincerest apologies to Marty Raymond," Duchene said, according Murray Pam of Sporting News Canada. "He's a heck of a person, a coach, and he did not deserve what we said."

None of the seven players featured in the video (Duchene, Thomas Chabot, Chris Wideman, Colin White, Chris Tierney, Alex Formenton, and Dylan DeMelo) spoke earlier Tuesday during the team's morning skate and none were expected to speak following Tuesday's contest.

Mark Stone spoke to reporters Tuesday morning, where he noted that the team had already addressed the situation and were looking to move past it.

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Ottawa Senators forward Matt Duchene faced the music for the first time since a video showing him and six of his teammates in an Uber in Phoenix mocking assistant coach Martin Raymond went viral Monday.

Following the Senators 7-3 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday, Duchene spoke to reporters apologizing profusely to Raymond for the team's remarks.

"I can only say what I'm about to say on the matter, I want to take this opportunity to extend my absolutely sincerest apologies to Marty Raymond," Duchene said, according Murray Pam of Sporting News Canada. "He's a heck of a person, a coach, and he did not deserve what we said."

None of the seven players featured in the video (Duchene, Thomas Chabot, Chris Wideman, Colin White, Chris Tierney, Alex Formenton, and Dylan DeMelo) spoke earlier Tuesday during the team's morning skate and none were expected to speak following Tuesday's contest.

Mark Stone spoke to reporters Tuesday morning, where he noted that the team had already addressed the situation and were looking to move past it.

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Vegas Golden Knights forward Erik Haula had to be stretchered off the ice midway through the third period of Tuesday night's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs after falling awkwardly on his right leg following a hit from Patrick Marleau.

Play was immediately halted as Haula was in considerable pain.

The 27-year-old is coming off a career-best 2017-18 season that saw him finish with 29 goals and 55 points. This year, he's posted two goals and seven points through 15 games.

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The 2018-19 season has not kicked off the way the St. Louis Blues envisioned it.

After making a splash this offseason, bringing in the likes of Ryan O'Reilly, Tyler Bozak, and David Perron, the club seemed destined for greatness. However, 12 games through the regular season, the club finds itself two points out of last place in the Western Conference.

"Unfortunately, we're at the bottom here," Jake Allen said Monday, according to Tom Timmermann of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Rock bottom probably basically for us in the last ... ever since I’ve been here. We’ve got to dig deep to find our way out."

The Blues have lost three of their last five games including Saturday night where they were shelled 5-1 by the Minnesota Wild.

"We've just got to be more consistent in our game," Allen said. "We got down a couple goals there last game and we sort of just took our foot off the gas. I thought we had two great games before that, building something here, building some positivity, some fun, a great environment. And we let the wheels fall off there last game.

"Last game shouldn't be something we’re proud of. Obviously it's a disappointing effort for us, especially at home. We’ve got to find it here. There's really no more answers, and no more questions, and no more talking."

The club's biggest crutch has been their inability to keep the puck out of their net. The Blues are averaging 3.92 goals-against, second-last in the league, despite the fact they sit in the middle of the pack in shots against per game. Surprisingly, their offense has been the fourth-most productive unit in the league, scoring an average of 3.5 goals per game.

As for what the Blues do to get themselves back in the hunt, Allen insists it will be a grind.

"It’s going to be a process," Allen said. "It really is. We put ourselves in a spot where we're really going to have to grind and find a way to get points. … It's going be a really complicated math problem and we've just got to find a way to study and get into it and get out of it."

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Warning: Video contains coarse language

A video was posted to the internet Monday that shows seven members of the Ottawa Senators (Matt Duchene, Chris Wideman, Alex Formenton, Thomas Chabot, Dylan DeMelo, Colin White, and Chris Tierney) riding in an Uber while in Arizona for a recent road trip. During their ride, they can be heard mocking members of the team's coaching staff, including assistant coach Martin Raymond, while criticizing their off-ice video sessions and poor penalty kill.

"Marty Raymond, the only coach in NHL history to have the worst power play and the worst PK within a calendar year," forward Matt Duchene says in the video, according to the Ottawa Citizen.

From there, defenseman Chris Wideman adds: "Do you notice that when (Raymond) runs the video, if you actually do pay attention, he doesn't ever teach you anything. He just commentates what's happening."

Duchene responds: "Here's the other thing, too. We don't change anything, ever. So why do we even have a meeting? I haven't paid attention in three weeks."

The original video, which was posted on Youtube and Twitter but has since been taken down, looks to have been recorded with a dash camera without the players' knowledge.

General manager of Uber Canada Rob Khazzam tweeted Monday night that the released video was in violation of the terms of service and that the company worked to have the video taken down.

The Senators' three-game road trip from Oct. 26-30 saw the club drop all three games to the Colorado Avalanche, Vegas Golden Knights, and Arizona Coyotes. The team has gone 5-6-3 in 14 games this season, leaving it three points out of the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

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Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf is day to day with an upper-body injury that kept him out of Sunday's game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the team announced prior to puck drop.

The news came at a tough time for the Ducks as the team had dropped seven straight games, but they did prevail in overtime against the Blue Jackets on Sunday night.

Anaheim has found it difficult to find the back of the net, ranking 29th in goals per game. Getzlaf has been the team's most constant producer, putting up 10 points in just nine contests this season.

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