Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll was forced to exit Thursday's game against the Ottawa Senators and didn't return after sustaining an apparent injury while making a save in the third period.

Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe said postgame that Woll will miss some time, but the club won't know the extent of the injury until doing more testing upon returning home, according to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman. Toronto will host the Nashville Predators on Saturday night.

Martin Jones made his Maple Leafs debut after Woll was helped off the ice. He stopped nine of the 10 shots he faced after Woll turned aside all but two of 31 shots in Toronto's 4-3 victory.

The latter puck-stopper performed well after usurping Ilya Samsonov as the Maple Leafs' No. 1 netminder earlier this season. The Russian missed his second straight game Thursday due to an illness and hasn't played since a loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Nov. 24.

Woll came into the contest against the Senators with a .915 save percentage and an 8-5-1 record across 14 games in this campaign, 12 of which were starts. The 25-year-old authored a .925 save percentage over his previous five outings.

Jones, who'll turn 34 on Jan. 10, suited up for 48 games with the Seattle Kraken in 2022-23. He posted an .886 save percentage along with a 27-13-3 record. The veteran goalie saved minus-5.15 goals above expected and minus-10.33 goals above average last season, according to Evolving Hockey.

The Leafs signed Jones to a one-year, $875,000 contract in August.

Woll is on the books through 2024-25 at $766,667, per CapFriendly. Toronto drafted him 62nd overall in 2016.

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Philadelphia Flyers forward Garnet Hathaway was ejected from Thursday's game against the New Jersey Devils after leveling opposing defenseman Luke Hughes in the first period.

Hathaway and Hughes were pursuing the puck on a play the linesman eventually called icing, but the official delayed his call, causing Hathaway to go in full speed and hit Hughes hard into the end boards.

Hathaway got a five-minute major for boarding and a game misconduct.

Hughes left the contest but returned for the second period.

Flyers head coach John Tortorella wasn't the only one upset at the officiating crew. Devils superstar Jack Hughes didn't appreciate the delayed icing call that caused his brother to get hurt.

Luke Hughes has made an impact with the Devils in his rookie season. He's collected two goals and 11 assists in 21 games. The 20-year-old came into Thursday averaging nearly 20 minutes of ice time at 19:41.

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Patrik Allvin acknowledges his Vancouver Canucks have a rather notable area of concern.

"Do I think we need another defenseman?" the general manager said Wednesday, according to Sportsnet's Iain MacIntyre. "I think we can get help on the back end, yes."

Several Canucks blue-liners have been shouldering heavy workloads this season due to injuries. Vancouver ruled Carson Soucy out for six-to-eight weeks on Nov. 15, and Guillaume Brisebois has been out since sustaining a concussion in the preseason.

Quinn Hughes has vaulted himself into the Hart Trophy conversation with his elite play, but he's averaging nearly 25 minutes of ice time (24:45) and over 26 minutes in the last 10 games. Filip Hronek ranks second on the club in that department for the season (24:38), averaging 25:36 over his last 10.

Ian Cole is also logging over 20 minutes per contest, while Tyler Myers played a personal season-high 23:06 on Tuesday night.

Allvin freed up $4.15 million of cap space by trading Anthony Beauvillier to the Chicago Blackhawks earlier this week. Vancouver is now approximately $5.73 million under the cap ceiling, per CapFriendly.

"There's a lot of pieces out there," the GM said. "But again, I think we owe it to the players internally here to put them in that position to succeed. We all know that we have some injuries, you know, on the back end and Pius Suter up top. We're looking at ways to see where we can strengthen our team."

The Canucks have experimented with several internal depth options, including Cole McWard, Noah Juulsen, Mark Friedman, and Akito Hirose.

Vancouver has regressed to a degree since getting off to a roaring start to the campaign. The Canucks now sit third in the Pacific Division by points percentage (.674) with a 15-7-1 record and four more games played than the Los Angeles Kings.

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The Vancouver Canucks dealt forward Anthony Beauvillier to the Chicago Blackhawks for a fifth-round draft pick, reports TSN's Darren Dreger.

More to come.

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The officials didn't discriminate after a line brawl erupted in the third period of the Florida Panthers' 5-0 win over the Ottawa Senators on Monday night.

Tempers flared earlier in the game, but things reached a boiling point when Senators captain Brady Tkachuk bumped into Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky following a scoring chance in the latter half of the final stanza.

Florida defenseman Dmitry Kulikov then went after Tkachuk, and a full-out melee ensued.

Here's another look at referee Garrett Rank's all-encompassing penalty call:

Panthers head coach Paul Maurice had to do a head count to determine how many players he had left on the bench.

Brady and Matthew Tkachuk's grandmother, Geraldine, didn't seem too thrilled with how things unfolded with two of her grandsons involved.

When the dust settled, the officials handed the Senators 54 minutes of penalties over the brouhaha (including a minor to Brady for the original contact with Bobrovsky), while the Panthers received 52. Ottawa racked up 84 penalty minutes in the game compared to Florida's 83.

Maurice had a quip ready when asked about all of those minutes postgame.

"That's mild," he said, according to The Associated Press' Tim Reynolds. "We only got to 160-some minutes. It's got to get into the 250s before it gets too squirrelly."

Earlier in the game, Senators forward Zack MacEwen got a match penalty for hitting Matthew in the head in retaliation for the Panthers forward's check on Ottawa blue-liner Travis Hamonic. Matthew was then caught on a hot mic saying, "F-----g Timmy (Stutzle) and (Jake) Sanderson are dead," before fighting the latter minutes later.

The Senators and Panthers won't meet again until Feb. 20 in Sunrise, Florida. They'll also meet in Ottawa on April 4 before battling in Florida again on April 9.

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The NHL is turning back the clock by resurrecting the player draft it used during several past All-Star Weekends.

The league announced Monday it's expanding this season's festivities in Toronto to three days. The player draft will take place Thursday, Feb. 1, followed by the skills competition the next day, and then the three-on-three tournament on Saturday.

In terms of the player draft, the four All-Star captains (one from each division) will fill out their teams from the remaining pool of players after the conclusion of fan voting. The event will be televised, and each captain will be paired with a celebrity.

The NHL held an All-Star player draft in 2011, 2012, and 2015. The most memorable moment came in the inaugural edition, when then-Toronto Maple Leafs winger Phil Kessel was passed over until the final pick.

This year's All-Star Weekend will also include a PWHL showcase on Thursday.

Toronto will host the midseason event for the first time since 2000.

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Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Hartman will have a hearing with the NHL's Department of Player Safety on Monday for slew-footing/tripping Detroit Red Wings winger Alex DeBrincat.

Hartman used his right leg and arm to haul DeBrincat down when the two players were entangled in the third period of the Red Wings' 4-1 victory on Sunday.

The officials didn't penalize Hartman for the play but did whistle DeBrincat for cross-checking in retaliation.

Hartman later received an extra minor penalty on top of his own cross-checking infraction as both he and Detroit defenseman Moritz Seider were called for roughing a few minutes after the original incident.

Minnesota trailed 3-1 at the time and ultimately lost its seventh straight game.

Hartman was suspended twice before Sunday, serving one game both times. The first was for a headshot on then-Colorado Avalanche forward Carl Soderberg in April 2018. The second was for interfering with Winnipeg Jets winger Nikolaj Ehlers this past April.

The Minnesota center has also been fined four previous times, including once for tripping then-St. Louis Blues forward Sammy Blais in May 2021.

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New York Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba dodged a suspension Saturday despite committing an objectively questionable act.

The NHL instead fined Trouba for hitting Boston Bruins forward Trent Frederic in the head with his stick after a whistle early in the second period of the Rangers' 7-4 win.

Here's a closer look at the incident:

Trouba wasn't penalized for his actions during the game. Frederic played four more shifts in the second period and ultimately logged 19 of them in the Bruins' defeat.

The Rangers blue-liner has been suspended once in his NHL career. He sat out two games in February 2017 for hitting then-Ottawa Senators forward Mark Stone in the head.

The league also fined Trouba $5,000 for slashing then-St. Louis Blues rearguard Vince Dunn in January 2020.

New York took over the top spot in the NHL with Saturday's victory over Boston.

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Marc-Andre Fleury chose to wear the mask he had made for Native American Heritage Night on Friday despite the NHL insisting he wasn't allowed to do so.

The Minnesota Wild goaltender - who was dressed as the team's backup for the evening's game against the Colorado Avalanche - said earlier in the day he was upset that the league wasn't going to let him wear the mask.

The custom headgear honors his wife, Veronique Larosee Fleury, who is a member of an Indigenous tribe in Canada.

Fleury's agent, Allan Walsh, said pregame that Fleury implied he'd wear the mask regardless of the league's stance and pay a fine as a result. The NHL then threatened to charge the team a "significant additional fine," according to Walsh.

However, sources told The Athletic's Michael Russo neither Fleury nor the Wild are likely to be billed over it.

The veteran netminder told Russo he was most upset about the league's position because the mask also features a quote in French from his late father, Andre, who lost his right eye as a child and often told his son to keep his eye on the puck.

Before the start of this season, the NHL updated its guidelines on theme nights in response to seven players refusing to wear Pride jerseys during warmups in the previous campaign. The league said teams could still hold theme nights, but players wouldn't be allowed to wear anything promoting causes of any kind on the ice.

The rule prohibited anything promoting cancer awareness in addition to the aforementioned initiatives.

Arizona Coyotes defenseman Travis Dermott became the first player to defy the blanket ban when he used Pride tape on his stick during a game against the Anaheim Ducks in October.

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The Philadelphia Flyers are itching to make some moves to position themselves for success down the road.

"I can tell you that they're interested and eager in becoming a wheeler and a dealer, but that's not because they're trying to sell off assets," TSN's Darren Dreger said on Thursday's edition of "Insider Trading."

"It's because they want to build a stronger foundation for the future, and they're willing to listen basically ... on every position - not every player, but every position. They feel like they've got the assets to move," Dreger continued.

The Flyers' three pending unrestricted free agents - Nick Seeler, Sean Walker, and Marc Staal - are all blue-liners. They're 30, 29, and 36 years old, respectively. Staal turns 37 in January.

Philadelphia has a core of relatively young talent, with nine players at 24 years old or younger, including Joel Farabee, Owen Tippett, and Bobby Brink. The Flyers' No. 1 goaltender, Carter Hart, is 25. Travis Konecny, the team's leading goal-scorer, is 26. Defenseman Travis Sanheim (who leads the team in points) is 27.

General manager Daniel Briere landed a couple of high draft picks while trading away rearguard Ivan Provorov in the offseason. The GM also dealt away veteran forward Kevin Hayes, bought out defenseman Tony DeAngelo, and let experienced winger James van Riemsdyk walk in free agency.

The Flyers won three of their first five games this season and occupied first place in the Metropolitan Division exactly one month ago on Oct. 23. They now sit fourth at 10-8-1 on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, a time when NHL clubs typically take the opportunity to evaluate how they've started the campaign.

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