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 @ Toronto
Likely Columbus starter: Steve Mason - It sounds like Mason more or less has the Blue Jackets starting job back. (Source.)
Likely Toronto starter: Jonas Gustavsson (Source.)
Boston @ Atlanta
Likely Boston starter: Tim Thomas (Source.)
Likely Atlanta starter: Ondrej Pavelec (Source.)
7:30 pm ET game
Montreal @ Tampa Bay
Likely Montreal starter: Carey Price (Source.)
Likely Tampa Bay starter: Dan Ellis (Source.)
8:30 pm ET game
San Jose @ Chicago
Likely San Jose starter: Antti Niemi - (Source.)
Likely Chicago starter: Marty Turco - Corey Crawford is apparently still under the weather so Turco will get the start. Someone get Crawford some antibiotics already. (Source.)
9:30 pm ET game
Colorado @ Edmonton
Likely Colorado starter: Craig Anderson (Source.)
Likely Edmonton starter: Devan Dubnyk (Source.)
10:30 pm ET game
Philadelphia @ Los Angeles
Likely Philadelphia starter: Michael Leighton - Whoa, Leighton’s back. That managed to sneak under the radar a bit, right? (Source.)
Likely Los Angeles starter: Jonathan Bernier (Source.)