Vegas Golden Knights forward Vadim Shipachyov will take reps in the American Hockey League while his future with the club is sorted out.

The 30-year-old will report to the Chicago Wolves while his agent continues to seek a potential trade for his client, according to Sportsnet's Eric Engels.

Related: 3 teams that should trade for Shipachyov

On Wednesday Shipachyov and his camp were given permission by the Golden Knights to seek a potential trade. Shipachyov has played just three games with Vegas this season, tallying just one goal while playing under 11 minutes per game.

Shipachyov - who had previously spent the last nine seasons in the KHL - inked a two-year, $9-million contract with the Golden Knights this offseason.

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Jarome Iginla could still don the red and white one last time.

The unrestricted free agent forward was not named to Canada's roster for the Karjala Cup - a pre-Olympic showcase in Finland next month - but could still represent his home country at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea, according to Frank Seravalli of TSN.

Seravalli writes:

Iginla, who captured two Olympic gold medals for Team Canada, recently underwent a minor procedure to clean out loose particles in his hip.

It is unclear whether Iginla, now 40, will be invited or has interest in the next step of the evaluation process, which is the Channel One Cup in Moscow from Dec. 12-17.

Team Canada general manager Sean Burke confirmed this past summer that he reached out to Iginla about the possibility of participating if he failed to sign with an NHL club.

The 40-year-old winger recorded 14 goals and 13 assists in 80 games with Colorado and Los Angeles last season.

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Current NHL players won't be taking part in February's Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but that's not stopping a crop of former NHLers from auditioning to make the trip.

On Thursday, Hockey Canada announced its roster for the Karjala Cup, a pre-Olympic tournament that will be used to assess the potential lineup that will represent Canada at the 2018 Games this winter.

Among the 26 names are a group of former NHLers currently plying their trade in pro leagues around the globe, including Wojtek Wolski, Mason Raymond, and Ben Scrivens.

Here's a look at the complete roster for next month's tuneup - one that could end up looking very similar to Team Canada's Olympic roster come February:

The other three nations icing teams in November's pre-Olympic tournament are Switzerland, Sweden, and Finland, with the Swiss and Finns each playing host.

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Current NHL players won't be taking part in February's Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but that's not stopping a crop of former NHLers from auditioning to make the trip.

On Thursday, Hockey Canada announced its roster for the Karjala Cup, a pre-Olympic tournament that will be used to assess the potential lineup that will represent Canada at the 2018 Games this winter.

Among the 26 names are a group of former NHLers currently plying their trade in pro leagues around the globe, including Wojtek Wolski, Mason Raymond, and Ben Scrivens.

Here's a look at the complete roster for next month's tuneup - one that could end up looking very similar to Team Canada's Olympic roster come February:

The other three nations icing teams in November's pre-Olympic tournament are Switzerland, Sweden, and Finland, with the Swiss and Finns each playing host.

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The St. Louis Blues have undergone quite an incredible transformation. From 2011 to 2016, they routinely finished near the top of the Western Conference standings, only to fall short in the playoffs. Since that five-year stretch, they have been smacked in the face with adversity, but remain one of the league's best teams.

The Blues (7-2-1) have 15 points, tying them with the Los Angeles Kings for the most in the Western Conference. This comes less than a year after they underwent a coaching change - replacing Ken Hitchcock with Mike Yeo - and were sellers at the deadline, trading Kevin Shattenkirk to the Capitals for draft picks and prospects. And as they moved into the 2017-2018 season, the Blues were dealing with a glut of injuries to various key players.

Alexander Steen missed the first six games of the season, Jay Bouwmeester has yet to play, Patrik Berglund is out until December, and Robby Fabbri is out for the season.

Combine all of this, and the Blues weren't given much of a chance heading into the season, with Bodog giving them 33/1 odds at winning the cup this year. Seventeen teams were given a better chance to win it all.

It's possible the Blues have been playing with a chip on their shoulder because of that disrespect. Nothing ignites a team more than an "us against the world" mentality. However, there's clearly more to it than that.

Since Yeo took over as head coach on Feb. 1, the Blues have put together a regular season record of 29-10-3. Including playoffs, they're 35-15-3 under their new coach. Clearly, getting away from Hitchcock's ultra-defensive system has done wonders for the team. Yeo is getting the most out of his most important players.

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Alex Pietrangelo has always been regarded as one of the league's best defensemen, but he has taken his game to another level since Shattenkirk was sent packing on Feb. 27. In 30 regular-season games since the trade, Pietrangelo has 9 goals and 21 assists. He's producing at an Erik Karlsson-like pace, while remaining an elite defender in his own zone.

The case could be made that Pietrangelo is the very best blue-liner in the world right now, and he is doing so without his longtime trusted D partner, Bouwmeester.

When you have one of, if not the best, defenseman in the league playing nearly half the game each night, it makes your entire team drastically better.

Jaden Schwartz appears to be coming into his own, with seven goals and seven assists in 10 games thus far. Vladimir Tarasenko continues to fill the net with pucks, and offseason acquisition Brayden Schenn is playing at a near point-per-game pace, as is Vladimir Sobotka, who returned to the Blues at the end of last season after a three-year hiatus in the KHL.

All of these players, including Pietrangelo, have one thing in common: all are playing a career-high in average time on the ice. Yeo is trusting in his best players, and they are getting the job done.

However, regular-season success is ordinary for the Blues. They've enjoyed plenty of that. Though, with many new faces on the ice, a new face behind the bench, and a new style of play, this Blues team is certainly different than ones in the past.

Unlike in previous seasons, the expectation isn't "Stanley Cup or bust" for these Blues. Without that burden hanging over their shoulder, maybe this is the year the Blues will reverse their postseason fate.

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The Calgary Flames made their intention crystal clear over the summer when they dealt three highly valuable draft picks to acquire defenseman Travis Hamonic from the New York Islanders: It's time to win.

Coming off a disheartening first-round sweep at the hands of the Anaheim Ducks, the Flames made it their mission to, first, find a new goalie - which came in the form of a trade for Mike Smith - and second, bolster the depth of a blue line that was already among the league's best.

With a lead pairing of Mark Giordano and Dougie Hamilton, Calgary needed someone to complement talented puck-mover T.J. Brodie, and free him from the shackles of partners that restricted his skill set in the past. Flames brass identified that player as Hamonic, and his move to Alberta rounded out a top four that looked ready to compete with anyone they matched up against.

So, early on, how has Calgary played with Hamonic?

To put it succinctly: not great. A 10-game sample size, especially one that draws from the first 10 games with a new organization in a new conference, doesn't provide a clear enough picture of how things will play out in the long run, but even considering the transition, Hamonic's start to the 2017-18 season has been underwhelming.

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Firstly, the Flames as a whole need to tighten up defensively. They're allowing 34.2 shots against per game (25th) and 60.27 attempts per hour at even strength (23rd).

When digging a little deeper, it's clear the defensive pairing getting hit the hardest is Hamonic's:

(CF%: Corsi-For Percentage, Rel CF%: Corsi-For relative to teammates, xGA: Expected Goals Against. All stats at five-on-five, courtesy Corsica)

The Bartkowski-Stone pairing hasn't been great either, but Brodie and Hamonic have logged nearly 100 more minutes at five-on-five, posing a considerable problem for the Flames each game.

The good news for Calgary, which is 5-5 this season, is that Smith has stood tall amid a massive workload, posting a .928 save percentage through nine starts. And while Hamonic hasn't yet had the effect Calgary imagined, there are 72 games remaining to sort things out.

In saying that, though, the Flames need Hamonic's pairing to sort things out sooner than later, as consistently being outshot always catches up to teams, usually in emphatic fashion.

Calgary's built an offense run on the star power of Johnny Gaudreau, and is getting the goaltending it's sorely missed over the last few years, but it's the newly formed blue line - the area they mortgaged a considerable chunk of their future to upgrade - that, right now, surprisingly stands between the Flames and their goal of taking the next step.

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A prominent agent who has a history with Claude Julien is apparently still not a fan of him.

Dan Milstein took a shot at the Montreal Canadiens head coach on Thursday for his handling of the Alex Galchenyuk situation.

Julien demoted the struggling 23-year-old forward to Montreal's fourth line earlier this week, but Galchenyuk did score a power-play goal in the Canadiens' 5-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.

Milstein represents many Russian players in the NHL and KHL - most notably Nikita Kucherov, Artemi Panartin, and Pavel Datsyuk - but Galchenyuk's agent is Pat Brisson.

Also, Galchenyuk isn't even Russian; he was born in Milwaukee to Belarusian parents.

Milstein has two clients, Nikita Nesterov and Alexander Khokhlachev, who have played for Julien.

Nesterov appeared in 13 games with the Canadiens last season after arriving in a trade from the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Khokhlachev had a much-publicized feud with the Boston Bruins (where Julien was coaching) in the spring of 2016, which reached a boiling point when Milstein called out the bench boss for not giving his client a chance.

As for Russian players who played under Julien with the Canadiens, Alexander Radulov left to sign a lucrative free-agent contract with the Dallas Stars over the summer, while both Nesterov and Andrei Markov opted to sign in the KHL, and Mikhail Sergachev was traded to the Lightning for Jonathan Drouin.

Milstein later deleted Thursday's tweet.

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Technically, the Arizona Coyotes aren't the closest team to the Vegas Golden Knights. They're not even the second-closest. Those teams would be the Anaheim Ducks, 259 miles away, and the Los Angeles Kings, 268 miles away. The Coyotes' arena is 281 miles away, in Glendale.

The Kings and Ducks, though, have each other as local rivals, and while every division rivalry is intense and important, there's something extra in the mix when geography comes into play.

The Coyotes have had that, to an extent, with the Kings and Ducks, but outside of the 2012 Western Conference Final, it hasn't always been a case of mutual antipathy, with the Coyotes ranking in distaste not only behind the L.A. area teams, but also the San Jose Sharks, as part of the California triumvirate.

"We had tough games against L.A., and that's the type of games that you want to play and be a part of," said Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson, a four-time All-Star in his eighth season with the Coyotes. "I hope that we can get to that point with Vegas and I think we will, moving forward."

The early signs are promising. After their inaugural game in Dallas, the Golden Knights went to Glendale and beat the Coyotes 2-1 in overtime, then topped Arizona again, 5-2, in the first game in Las Vegas three days later.

"The first game against them, it really did kind of build a little something right away, and that's good," said Coyotes center Derek Stepan. "That's what makes fun hockey, is when you can get a rival that's so close to you. We can call it the Desert Battle or whatever you want to call it, and I think it's going to be good for many years to come.

"I think that's what makes our sport so great, is when you have an opponent you can really go against and really butt heads. That's what's fun about our game."

In a season that has begun with very little in the way of fun for the winless Coyotes, writing the first chapter of a rivalry may be the highlight. While Las Vegas may be just a few miles closer to Anaheim and Los Angeles, the point Stepan makes about them being the two desert teams is spot-on. That's what ties the Coyotes and Golden Knights together.

It is, however, going to take time. It does for all the best rivalries.

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"Rivalries, they grow," said Arizona enforcer/irritant Zac Rinaldo, who missed those first two Coyotes-Golden Knights games while serving a five-game suspension, but could help grow the rivalry through the sheer force of his Zac Rinaldoness.

"They can't just be put in motion. Both teams have to grow that rivalry. It can't just be named a rivalry when you haven't played each other. Like Pittsburgh, when I was with Philly, you have to hate these guys. It's different because Vegas just came into the league. That rivalry has to grow, and it will grow. But it has to come natural."

The next step on the path to the "Desert Battle" becoming special is Nov. 25 in Glendale. It's a long way to go before reaching Bruins-Canadiens territory, or even Ducks-Kings, but Vegas' entry to the NHL gives the Coyotes a chance at something they've never had.

"It's good to have some extra energy before those kinds of games, but it's so new, we haven't really built a rivalry yet, I think," Ekman-Larsson said. "At the same time, give it a couple more years."

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Over the course of the 2017-18 season, theScore will run a series of interviews with former players in which they recall some of the greatest moments of their career. This edition focuses on Doug Gilmour, who racked up 1,414 points in 1,474 career NHL games with seven teams.

On breaking in with the St. Louis Blues as a late-round pick:

Most teams weren't going to give me a chance to play. Gord Woods drafted me (to the Cornwall Royals) and made me from a defenseman to a center, and we won the Memorial Cup - and then (Dale) Hawerchuk and Scott Arniel left, and all of a sudden they needed a No. 1 center. And I happened to take over that role. Gordie was a backbone, he really helped me.

When I got drafted in the seventh round, I had a chip on my shoulder. I was pissed. (Teammates) were drafted in front of me, and there was speculation that I was going to go in the second, third round. I was playing ball hockey the day before, and got in a fight and hurt my knee, so I was on the train coming back, and I was going to have part of my cartilage taken out. I got off the train, and my mom said I was picked up in the seventh round (by) St. Louis.

When I got there, we had (Bernie) Federko, (Blake) Dunlop, (Mike) Zuke, Larry Patey, Alain Lemieux, and Guy Chouinard. So (Blues head coach) Jacques Demers said, "We got a lot of offense here. We need defense. Can you check?" And I said, "Sure." That taught me another side of the game.

His favorite story from his nine-game stint with Rapperswil-Jona of the Swiss League during the 1994-95 NHL work stoppage:

We practiced in the morning and again in the evening, and then we would go to a team dinner. It was mandatory; everybody had to go. So we're at this big table, and there's one player on one side of me, and one player on the other side of me. And there are, like, three guys who can speak English.

So the guy sitting across from me says, "Doug, you ever seen a blowfish?" I say, "No, I know what it is, but I've never seen one." Well, both guys beside me, with beer in their mouths, spit right on my face. So I go, "OK, this is what we're doing now."

After that, we went to a bar ... and don't forget, the town of Rapperswil has about 15,000 people. And Bruno Hug was the (team) owner and general manager. We're in there, having beers, and they have those little shot bottles. You take the cap off, put it on the end of your nose somehow, put the bottle in your mouth, drink, and then spit the bottle on the ground.

So Bruno walks in, and all of a sudden I see one tall defenseman, I forget his name, and he has scissors with him. And he walks over and cuts (Bruno's) tie off. And Switzerland is really expensive; he probably has a $5,000 suit on. And now (the defenseman is) cutting the sleeves off Bruno's suit coat. And I'm going, "Where the hell am I?"

His other favorite story from Switzerland:

So I take the guys out for a fondue dinner, because I'm leaving in three days and I want to say thank you to the team. But I'll fast forward a little bit: I had a car accident that night.

What happened was, we're all at a big table at this fondue place, and I bought this jacket over there, it was $500 or something like that, a leather jacket that goes over my suit coat. It was really nice.

So I'm sitting there, we're almost done dinner, and I see the scissors come out. I run out of the restaurant, fly out the front door, go down a hill, headfirst into a Mercedes car door. That's my car accident. (laughs) So we left a note on the window.

I go see Bruno the next day, and he says, "You had a car accident last night. I got a call today ... $3,000 damage. What happened?" I said, "Well, I was getting chased out of the restaurant with the scissors, and I slid down the hill and I hit a car door with the side of my head and my shoulder."

He said, "You weren't driving?" And I said, "No." (laughs)

His favorite referee story:

The one with (Don Koharski), and Gary Roberts, and the case of beer.

Koho, I knew him, he lived in the Burlington/Oakville area. You get to know the referees, and what you can get away with and what you can't get away with. I think we were winning 6-2, and (I get a minor penalty), and I said to Koho, "Don't give me two. I need 10." And he goes, "You're kidding me, right?"

And I say, "No, you fucking asshole." And he said, "I'm not giving you 10." And I said, "Koho, you're a fucking asshole. Give me 10. I need 10 minutes." He goes, "Really?" And I said, "Yeah."

So he said, "OK, 10 minutes." And I said, "Thanks." (laughs) And I went off the ice and back to the dressing room, and started laughing.

So (Flames head coach Terry Crisp) is trying to figure out why I got kicked out, because I hadn't told anybody. And he goes, "You wanna tell me what that was all about?" And I go, "Well, it was a bet." And he says, "What the fuck are you talking about?"

I go, "Well, I asked Koho to give me 10 minutes. I didn't want two minutes, I needed 10 minutes. And there was only two minutes left in the game. And I just won a case of beer because I beat Roberts in penalty minutes." And he says, "OK. That's good." And he starts laughing.

The player he considers most underrated from his era:

I'd have to say Dave Andreychuk.

I played against him in junior hockey when he was with Oshawa. He was a bona fide goal-scorer. He took a beating. I asked him sometimes, "Why are you shooting right at the goalie?" He would shoot right at the goalie's stick or the pad, and it would come back to him, and he had that reach to get it around. And he would say, "Sometimes I just can't pick the corners."

I played with him in New Jersey, and Buffalo, after (Toronto). And we never played on the same line. We were roommates, and we'd look at each other and say, "We ever going to play together again?" We had a little bit of success ... did everybody forget about this? (laughs) It was hilarious.

What he would change as NHL commissioner:

I would add an extra 10 feet to the width of the rinks - not the length, the width. So 5 feet on each side. It will give your skill players that much more room to be that much more creative.

When I watch the European game, they trap. But when you have the puck down low, you want to see something. And to me, with the way the game has gone, let's see more skill. There's just not enough room for certain guys.

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Other entries in this series:

• Denis Savard
• Jeremy Roenick
• Kris Draper
• Bill Ranford
• Olie Kolzig
• Rick Vaive
• Vincent Damphousse

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The Pittsburgh Penguins placed defenseman Justin Schultz on injured reserve Thursday, the team announced. He suffered a concussion during Tuesday's game against the Oilers.

In a corresponding move, fellow defenseman Frank Corrado has been called up from the AHL. In six games with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton this season, the 24-year-old notched one goal and one assist.

Schultz has played the third-most minutes on Pittsburgh's blue line this season. He has three points in 10 games, but is coming off a career-high 51-point season.

Though the recovery time for a concussion is unpredictable, Schultz will be eligible to come off IR Wednesday, Nov. 1 in a rematch with the Oilers, meaning he will miss a minimum of three games.

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