Overview
- Head coach Adam Foote confirmed Hughes will not play against Edmonton and is considered day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
- Victor Mancini draws into the lineup in Hughes’ place, with Kirill Kudryavtsev taking warmups as the seventh defenseman.
- Hughes had logged heavy minutes on a five-games-in-eight-nights road stretch, averaging about 27 minutes and playing 26:25 on Saturday.
- The team has not specified when or how the injury occurred; Hughes recorded two assists in the loss to Montreal the night before.
- Mancini was recently assigned to AHL Abbotsford to optimize LTIR space when Nils Höglander was placed on LTIR and, under the new CBA, played one AHL game Friday before being recalled.