Whether you’re interested for fantasy hockey reasons or just want to know which goalie your team is playing in a given day, we thought it might be helpful to share our best guesses (based on various previews from newspapers and Web sites plus our own instincts) on who might start each day.
7:00 pm ET games
Columbus @ Pittsburgh
Likely Columbus starter: Steve Mason (Source.)
Likely Pittsburgh starter: Marc-Andre Fleury (Source.)
San Jose @ Washington
Likely San Jose starter: Antti Niemi - Antero Niittymaki will dress, but likely as Niemi’s backup. (Source.)
Likely Washington starter: Michal Neuvirth (Source.)
Carolina @ New Jersey
Likely Carolina starter: Cam Ward (Source.)
Likely New Jersey starter: Johan Hedberg - Fairly reasonable to assume with Martin Brodeur injured. (Source.)
Toronto @ NY Islanders
Likely Toronto starter: James Reimer (Source.)
Likely NY Islanders starter: Kevin Poulin (Source.)
7:30 pm ET games
Buffalo @ Tampa Bay
Likely Buffalo starter: Ryan Miller (Source.)
Likely Tampa Bay starter: Dwayne Roloson (Source.)
St. Louis @ Florida
Likely St. Louis starter: Jaroslav Halak (Source.)
Likely Florida starter: Tomas Vokoun (Source.)