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The time has finally come, and tonight is the first night of Opening Night in the NHL. There will be four games broadcast tonight, and then twelve tomorrow night, followed by a lone game on Friday. No matter which team you are pulling for, you can be sure that there will be some great match-ups on each night.

The official 23-man rosters of the teams were released this morning. Note: some of the players who have recently signed with teams, but the contracts have yet to be approved by the league, are not included on the opening night roster lists.

Opening Night Rosters:

Anaheim Ducks

Bryan Allen, Frederik Andersen, Francois Beauchemin, Matt Beleskey, Andrew

Cogliano, Emerson Etem, Mark Fistric, Cam Fowler, Ryan Getzlaf, John

Gibson, Tim Jackman, William Karlsson, Ryan Kesler, Hampus Lindholm, Ben

Lovejoy, Patrick Maroon, Corey Perry, Rickard Rakell, Jakob Silfverberg,

Devante Smith-Pelly, Clayton Stoner, Nate Thompson, Sami Vatanen.

Injured: Dany Heatley, Jaycob Megna, Kyle Palmieri, Sheldon Souray, Shea

Theodore.

Arizona Coyotes

Mikkel Boedker, Kyle Chipchura, B.J. Crombeen, Shane Doan, Devan Dubnyk,

Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Martin Erat, Sam Gagner, Martin Hanzal, Justin

Hodgman, Rob Klinkhammer, Lauri Korpikoski, Brandon McMillan, Zbynek

Michalek, David Moss, Connor Murphy, David Schlemko, Mike Smith, Michael

Stone, Chris Summers, Antoine Vermette, Joe Vitale, Keith Yandle.

Injured: Michael Lee.

Boston Bruins

Matt Bartkowski, Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara, Craig Cunningham, Loui

Eriksson, Brian Ferlin, Matt Fraser, Dougie Hamilton, Chris Kelly, Torey

Krug, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand, Adam McQuaid, Kevan Miller, Daniel

Paille, Tuukka Rask, Bobby Robins, Dennis Seidenberg, Reilly Smith, Carl

Soderberg, Ryan Spooner, Malcolm Subban, Niklas Svedberg.

Injured: Anthony Camara, Gregory Campbell, David Krejci, Marc Savard.

Buffalo Sabres

Andre Benoit, Nicolas Deslauriers, Tyler Ennis, Jhonas Enroth, Brian Flynn,

Marcus Foligno, Brian Gionta, Zemgus Girgensons, Josh Gorges, Cody Hodgson,

Cody McCormick, Andrej Meszaros, Torrey Mitchell, Matt Moulson, Tyler

Myers, Michal Neuvirth, Sam Reinhart, Rasmus Ristolainen, Drew Stafford,

Chris Stewart, Tyson Strachan, Mike Weber, Nikita Zadorov.

Injured: Nicholas Baptiste, Matt Hackett, Patrick Kaleta, Johan Larsson,

Jake McCabe, Mark Pysyk.

Calgary Flames

Mikael Backlund, Brandon Bollig, Lance Bouma, T.J. Brodie, Paul Byron, Joe

Colborne, Raphael Diaz, Deryk Engelland, Johnny Gaudreau, Mark Giordano,

Curtis Glencross, Jonas Hiller, Jiri Hudler, David Jones, Brian McGrattan,

Sean Monahan, Karri Ramo, Mason Raymond, Kris Russell, Devin Setoguchi,

Ladislav Smid, Matt Stajan, Dennis Wideman.

Injured: Sam Bennett, Emile Poirier, Corey Potter.

Carolina Hurricanes

Brett Bellemore, Patrick Brown, Patrick Dwyer, Justin Faulk, Nathan Gerbe,

Tim Gleason, Ron Hainsey, Jay Harrison, Anton Khudobin, John-Michael Liles,

Elias Lindholm, Brad Malone, Jay McClement, Ryan Murphy, Riley Nash, Victor

Rask, Andrej Sekera, Alexander Semin, Jeff Skinner, Eric Staal, Chris

Terry, Jiri Tlusty, Cam Ward.

Injured: Jordan Staal.

Chicago Blackhawks

Bryan Bickell, Daniel Carcillo, Corey Crawford, Kyle Cumiskey, Niklas

Hjalmarsson, Marian Hossa, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Marcus Kruger,

Jeremy Morin, Johnny Oduya, Antti Raanta, Brad Richards, Michal Rozsival,

David Rundblad, Brandon Saad, Brent Seabrook, Patrick Sharp, Andrew Shaw,

Ben Smith, Jonathan Toews, Trevor Van Riemsdyk, Kris Versteeg.

Injured: Brandon Mashinter.

Colorado Avalanche

Tyson Barrie, Reto Berra, Daniel Briere, Marc-Andre Cliche, Matt Duchene,

Dennis Everberg, Nate Guenin, Jan Hejda, Nick Holden, Jarome Iginla, Erik

Johnson, Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon, Cody McLeod, Ryan O’Reilly,

Zach Redmond, Brad Stuart, Maxime Talbot, Alex Tanguay, Semyon Varlamov,

Ryan Wilson, Jesse Winchester.

Injured: Patrick Bordeleau, Jamie McGinn, John Mitchell, Ben Street, Tomas

Vincour.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Artem Anisimov, Cam Atkinson, Sergei Bobrovsky, Jared Boll, Matt Calvert,

Michael Chaput, Adam Cracknell, Marko Dano, Tim Erixon, Nick Foligno, Cody

Goloubef, Scott Hartnell, Jack Johnson, Mark Letestu, Curtis McElhinney,

Dalton Prout, David Savard, Jack Skille, Corey Tropp, Fedor Tyutin,

Alexander Wennberg, James Wisniewski.

Injured: Brandon Dubinsky, Brian Gibbons, Nathan Horton, Boone Jenner,

Sonny Milano, Ryan Murray.

Non-Roster: Ryan Johansen (pending immigration clearance)

Dallas Stars

Jamie Benn, Jordie Benn, Erik Cole, Kevin Connauton, Trevor Daley, Brenden

Dillon, Cody Eakin, Patrick Eaves, Vernon Fiddler, Ryan Garbutt, Alex

Goligoski, Ales Hemsky, Shawn Horcoff, Kari Lehtonen, Anders Lindback,

Patrik Nemeth, Valeri Nichushkin, Jamie Oleksiak, Antoine Roussel, Colton

Sceviour, Tyler Seguin, Jason Spezza.

Injured: Sergei Gonchar, Rich Peverley.

Detroit Red Wings

Justin Abdelkader, Joakim Andersson, Daniel Cleary, Danny DeKeyser,

Jonathan Eriksson, Johan Franzen, Luke Glendening, Jonas Gustavsson, Darren

Helm, Jimmy Howard, Tomas Jurco, Jakub Kindl, Niklas Kronwall, Brian

Lashoff, Drew Miller, Andrej Nestrasil, Gustav Nyquist, Kyle Quincey, Riley

Sheahan, Brendan Smith, Tomas Tatar, Stephen Weiss, Henrik Zetterberg.

Injured: Pavel Datsyuk, Anthony Mantha, Andy Miele.

Edmonton Oilers

Will Acton, Mark Arcobello, Leon Draisaitl, Jordan Eberle, Viktor Fasth,

Mark Fayne, Andrew Ference, Boyd Gordon, Taylor Hall, Matt Hendricks, Brad

Hunt, Jesse Joensuu, Oscar Klefbom, Nikita Nikitin, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins,

Darnell Nurse, David Perron, Jeff Petry, Benoit Pouliot, Teddy Purcell,

Justin Schultz, Ben Scrivens, Nail Yakupov.

Injured: Brandon Davidson, Luke Gazdic.

Florida Panthers

Aleksander Barkov, Sean Bergenheim, Nick Bjugstad, Dave Bolland, Brad

Boyes, Brian Campbell, Aaron Ekblad, Tomas Fleischmann, Erik Gudbranson,

Jimmy Hayes, Jonathan Huberdeau, Jussi Jokinen, Tomas Kopecky, Dmitry

Kulikov, Roberto Luongo, Derek MacKenzie, Willie Mitchell, Al Montoya,

Dylan Olsen, Brandon Pirri, Colby Robak, Shawn Thornton, Scottie Upshall.

Injured: Blake Parlett.

Los Angeles Kings

Andy Andreoff, Dustin Brown, Jeff Carter, Kyle Clifford, Drew Doughty,

Marian Gaborik, Matt Greene, Martin Jones, Dwight King, Anze Kopitar,

Trevor Lewis, Alec Martinez, Brayden McNabb, Jake Muzzin, Jordan Nolan,

Tanner Pearson, Jonathan Quick, Robyn Regehr, Mike Richards, Jarret Stoll,

Tyler Toffoli, Slava Voynov, Justin Williams.

Injured: Andrew Bodnarchuk.

Minnesota Wild

Niklas Backstrom, Keith Ballard, Stu Bickel, Jonas Brodin, Kyle Brodziak,

Matt Cooke, Charlie Coyle, Matt Dumba, Christian Folin, Mikael Granlund,

Erik Haula, Mikko Koivu, Darcy Kuemper, Nino Niederreiter, Zach Parise,

Jason Pominville, Nate Prosser, Marco Scandella, Jared Spurgeon, Ryan

Suter, Thomas Vanek, Jason Zucker.

Injured: Justin Fontaine.

Montreal Canadiens

Nathan Beaulieu, Michael Bournival, Rene Bourque, David Desharnais, Lars

Eller, Alexei Emelin, Alex Galchenyuk, Brendan Gallagher, Tom Gilbert,

Manny Malhotra, Andrei Markov, Travis Moen, Max Pacioretty,

Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Tomas Plekanec, Carey Price, Brandon Prust,

Jiri Sekac, P.K. Subban, Jarred Tinordi, Dustin Tokarski, Mike Weaver, Dale

Weise.

Injured: Connor Crisp, Stefan Fournier, Jeremy Gregoire, Michael McCarron,

Jack Nevins, Dalton Thrower.

Nashville Predators

Victor Bartley, Taylor Beck, Gabriel Bourque, Rich Clune, Mattias Ekholm,

Ryan Ellis, Filip Forsberg, Paul Gaustad, Carter Hutton, Calle Jarnkrok,

Olli Jokinen, Seth Jones, Roman Josi, James Neal, Eric Nystrom, Mike

Ribeiro, Pekka Rinne, Derek Roy, Craig Smith, Anton Volchenkov, Shea Weber,

Colin Wilson.

Injured: Patrick Cehlin, Matt Cullen, Mike Fisher, Viktor Stalberg.

New Jersey Devils

Damien Brunner, Mike Cammalleri, Scott Clemmensen, Ryane Clowe, Patrik

Elias, Eric Gelinas, Stephen Gionta, Andy Greene, Martin Havlat, Adam

Henrique, Jaromir Jagr, Jacob Josefson, Adam Larsson, Jon Merrill, Tuomo

Ruutu, Michael Ryder, Bryce Salvador, Cory Schneider, Damon Severson,

Travis Zajac, Marek Zidlicky, Dainius Zubrus.

Injured: None.

New York Islanders

Josh Bailey, Eric Boulton, Johnny Boychuk, Casey Cizikas, Cal Clutterbuck,

Cory Conacher, Matt Donovan, Mikhail Grabovski, Jaroslav Halak, Travis

Hamonic, Thomas Hickey, Chad Johnson, Nikolay Kulemin, Nick Leddy, Matt

Martin, Colin McDonald, Brock Nelson, Frans Nielsen, Kyle Okposo, Griffin

Reinhart, Brian Strait, Ryan Strome, John Tavares.

Injured: Matt Carkner, Jason Clark, Calvin De Haan, Michael Grabner,

Lubomir Visnovsky.

New York Rangers

Dan Boyle, Derick Brassard, Anthony Duclair, Jesper Fast, Dan Girardi,

Tanner Glass, Carl Hagelin, Matt Hunwick, Kevin Klein, Chris Kreider,

Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan Malone, Ryan McDonagh, J.T. Miller, Dominic Moore,

John Moore, Rick Nash, Martin St. Louis, Marc Staal, Lee Stempniak, Cam

Talbot, Mats Zuccarello.

Injured: Kevin Hayes, Derek Stepan.

Ottawa Senators

Craig Anderson, Mark Borowiecki, Cody Ceci, Alex Chiasson, Erik Condra,

Jared Cowen, Colin Greening, Eric Gryba, Mike Hoffman, Erik Karlsson,

Curtis Lazar, David Legwand, Robin Lehner, Clarke MacArthur, Milan

Michalek, Chris Neil, Chris Phillips, Bobby Ryan, Zack Smith, Mark Stone,

Kyle Turris, Patrick Wiercioch, Mika Zibanejad.

Injured: Marc Methot.

Philadelphia Flyers

Jason Akeson, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Braydon Coburn, Sean Couturier,

Michael Del Zotto, Ray Emery, Claude Giroux, Nicklas Grossmann, Blair

Jones, Vincent Lecavalier, Andrew MacDonald, Steve Mason, Michael Raffl,

Matt Read, Zac Rinaldo, Brayden Schenn, Luke Schenn, Nick Schultz, Wayne

Simmonds, Mark Streit, R.J. Umberger, Jakub Voracek.

Injured: Matthew Konan, Chris Pronger, Kimmo Timonen, Ryan White.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Craig Adams, Beau Bennett, Robert Bortuzzo, Blake Comeau, Sidney Crosby,

Simon Despres, Steve Downie, Pascal Dupuis, Christian Ehrhoff, Marc-Andre

Fleury, Marcel Goc, Thomas Greiss, Patric Hornqvist, Kasperi Kapanen, Chris

Kunitz, Kris Letang, Olli Maatta, Evgeni Malkin, Paul Martin, Rob Scuderi,

Nick Spaling, Brandon Sutter.

Injured: Nick Drazenovic, Derrick Pouliot.

St. Louis Blues

Jake Allen, David Backes, Patrik Berglund, Jay Bouwmeester, Ian Cole, Brian

Elliott, Barret Jackman, Maxim Lapierre, Jori Lehtera, Jordan Leopold,

Joakim Lindstrom, T.J. Oshie, Steve Ott, Magnus Paajarvi, Alex Pietrangelo,

Chris Porter, Ryan Reaves, Jaden Schwartz, Kevin Shattenkirk, Paul Stastny,

Alex Steen, Vladimir Tarasenko.

Injured: Joel Edmundson, Benn Ferriero, Carl Gunnarsson, Jani Hakanpaa.

San Jose Sharks

Justin Braun, Mike Brown, Adam Burish, Brent Burns, Logan Couture, Jason

Demers, Andrew Desjardins, Scott Hannan, Eriah Hayes, Tomas Hertl, Matt

Irwin, Patrick Marleau, Tye McGinn, Mirco Mueller, Antti Niemi, Matt Nieto,

Joe Pavelski, John Scott, Alex Stalock, Joe Thornton, Chris Tierney,

Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Tommy Wingels.

Injured: Barclay Goodrow, Tyler Kennedy, James Sheppard, Raffi Torres.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Mark Barberio, Ben Bishop, Brian Boyle, Eric Brewer, J.T. Brown, Ryan

Callahan, Matt Carle, Brett Connolly, Jonathan Drouin, Valtteri Filppula,

Jason Garrison, Radko Gudas, Victor Hedman, Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn,

Slater Koekkoek, Evgeni Nabokov, Vladislav Namestnikov, Ondrej Palat,

Richard Panik, Steven Stamkos, Anton Stralman, Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Injured: Brenden Morrow, Mattias Ohlund.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Carter Ashton, Jonathan Bernier, Troy Bodie, Tyler Bozak, David Clarkson,

Matt Frattin, Jake Gardiner, Peter Holland, Nazem Kadri, Phil Kessel, Leo

Komarov, Brandon Kozun, Josh Leivo, Joffrey Lupul, Stuart Percy, Dion

Phaneuf, Roman Polak, James Reimer, Morgan Rielly, Stephane Robidas, Mike

Santorelli, James Van Riemsdyk, Daniel Winnik.

Injured: David Booth, Cody Franson.

Vancouver Canucks

Kevin Bieksa, Nick Bonino, Alexandre Burrows, Derek Dorsett, Alexander

Edler, Dan Hamhuis, Jannik Hansen, Chris Higgins, Zack Kassian, Eddie Lack,

Shawn Matthias, Ryan Miller, Brad Richardson, Luca Sbisa, Daniel Sedin,

Henrik Sedin, Tom Sestito, Ryan Stanton, Chris Tanev, Linden Vey, Radim

Vrbata, Yannick Weber.

Injured: Frank Corrado, Bo Horvat.

Washington Capitals

Karl Alzner, Nicklas Backstrom, Troy Brouwer, Chris Brown, Andre

Burakovsky, John Carlson, Jason Chimera, John Erskine, Eric Fehr, Mike

Green, Jack Hillen, Braden Holtby, Marcus Johansson, Evgeny Kuznetsov,

Brooks Laich, Michael Latta, Matt Niskanen, Brooks Orpik, Alex Ovechkin,

Justin Peters, Nate Schmidt, Chandler Stephenson, Joel Ward.

Injured: Jay Beagle, Dmitry Orlov, Edward Pasquale, Aaron Volpatti, Tom

Wilson.

Winnipeg Jets

Zach Bogosian, Dustin Byfuglien, Grant Clitsome, Tobias Enstrom, Michael

Frolik, T.J. Galiardi, Matt Halischuk, Michael Hutchinson, Evander Kane,

Andrew Ladd, Bryan Little, Adam Lowry, Adam Pardy, Ondrej Pavelec, Anthony

Peluso, Mathieu Perreault, Paul Postma, Mark Scheifele, Jim Slater, Mark

Stuart, Chris Thorburn, Jacob Trouba, Blake Wheeler.

Injured: Patrice Cormier, Eric O’Dell.

Opening Night Schedule(s):

Schedules presented by the NHL

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