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NEW YORK -- The Tampa Bay Lightning will be without forward Ryan Malone on Sunday night against the New York Rangers.
Malone, who has four goals and one assist in 10 games this year, is listed by the team as day-to-day with a lower-body injury. Pierre-Cedric Labrie will play his third game of the season and 17th of his career in place of Malone.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mikhail Grabovski faces a hearing with the Department of Player Safety for an incident in Toronto's 6-0 victory against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
The hearing, initially scheduled for Sunday afternoon, has been rescheduled to Monday morning.
They were losses that ultimately still counted as wins.
Latvia and Austria were each defeated in overtime Sunday in their Olympic qualification games, but the points they gained were enough to punch their tickets to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
France 3, Latvia 2 (OT)
Martins Karsums scored early in the third period to draw Latvia even and send the crowd at Arena Riga into a frenzy. France eventually gained the victory on a goal by Pierre-Édouard Bellemare.
Karsums, who scored one goal in 24 career NHL games for the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning, capitalized on the rebound of a Lauris Darzins shot.
ST. LOUIS -- Jamie Langenbrunner knew something was wrong. The St. Louis Blues veteran found out just how bad it was Saturday.
The news wasn't good, and it's just more adversity for a Blues team that has suddenly found itself searching for answers in the midst of a prolonged losing streak following a red-hot start.
The 37-year-old Langenbrunner will be sidelined indefinitely -- likely for the remainder of the 2012-13 season -- with a torn labrum in his left hip that will require surgery.
The Cloquet, Minnesota native, with 1,109 National Hockey League games under his belt, said he noticed something was not right in the past few weeks, and the pain got progressively worse.
He went to see Blues team doctors and MRI results determined the tear. The question arose whether this would be the last season of Langenbrunner's career, which includes two Stanley Cup rings, but Langenbrunner, who immediately said he doesn't want his career to end with an injury, opted for surgery to try and prolong it.
St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong announced Saturday that forward Jamie Langenbrunner is scheduled to undergo hip surgery and will be out indefinitely.
Langenbrunner, 37, has dressed in four games and posted one assist this season. Last season, the 37-year-old forward had 24 points (six goals, 18 assists) in 70 appearances with the Blues, including becoming the 21st American-born player to play in 1,100 NHL games on Mar. 27, 2012.
Overall, Langenbrunner has played in 18 NHL seasons, amassing 663 points (243 goals, 420 assists) and 837 penalty minutes in 1,109 games. A two-time Stanley Cup Champion (Dallas 1999, New Jersey 2003), Langenbrunner has registered 87 points (34 goals, 53 assists) in 146 NHL playoff games.
The Calgary Flames have placed goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff and center Mikael Backlund on injured reserve.
Kiprusoff suffered a lower-body injury in the second period of the Flames’ 4-1 victory at Detroit on Tuesday. He did not play the third period and sat out Thursday’s 4-3 overtime win. Kiprusoff was added to the IR retroactively on Friday and is listed as day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
Backlund is expected to miss four to six weeks with a sprained knee ligament.
For the first time in the country's history, Slovenia will be playing in the Winter Olympics men's hockey tournament.
The Slovenians clinched an Olympic berth on Friday with a shocking 2-1 win over host country Denmark, giving the Slovenians a 2-0-0 record in the four-team qualifying tournament being staged this week in the small Danish town of Vojens.
Slovenia came into the tournament ranked third among four teams, ahead of only Ukraine. But a tournament-opening 4-2 victory over Belarus set the stage for the win over Denmark, qualifying the underdog Slovenians for the 2014 Winter Olympics, which will kick off Feb. 2, 2014 in Sochi, Russia .
"A great success, not only for our sport, but for our nation," Slovenian coach Matjas Kopitar told the International Ice Hockey Federation's website.
BOSTON -- The National Hockey League and the Boston Bruins have announced that the start time for the Bruins/Lightning game on Saturday, February 9 has been moved to 7 p.m. at the TD Garden due to the weather.
The game was originally scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 9 at the TD Garden.
The Bruins will not have a morning skate prior to the game. Pregame media availability for both teams will be determined on Saturday and will be communicated to the media as soon as the timing is confirmed.
Upper Deck is joining into the Hockey Day in Canada festivities on Feb. 9.
Using its network of certified Diamond Dealers, the card company will give out free hockey cards across Canada as part of NatIonal Hockey Card Day. The cards will be distributed in exclusive "National Hockey Card Day" trading card packs at the Diamond Dealer locations.
To further celebrate Canada's hockey passion, the players included in National Hockey Card Day packs will be featured as members of Team Canada.
The Los Angeles Kings made their second trade in the past three days, trading for defenseman Keaton Ellerby from the Florida Panthers.
The Kings used the fifth-round pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft obtained from the New Jersey Devils in the trade of defenseman Andrei Loktionov on Wednesday to obtain Ellerby on Friday.
Ellerby, 24, has been with the Panthers for four seasons. He appeared in nine games with the Panthers this season, but did not register a point, has a minus-2 ranking and 36 penalty minutes. For his career, he has made 125 NHL appearances, scoring two goals and 17 points while having a minus-21 rating.
A first-round pick (No. 10) in the 2007 NHL Draft, Ellerby was averaging a little more than 15 minutes per game. His place in the defensive rotation, however, became tenuous with the return of Erik Gudbranson to the mix. Gudbranson, 21, played more than 20 minutes in the victory against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.
