Sharks @ Panthers Tonight

The Panthers are home for a game against the San Jose Sharks, who sit at the top of the Pacific division in the NHL's Western Conference.

San Jose is coming off of a high-scoring 7-6 shootout win against Philadelphia on Wednesday night, while the Panthers are coming off of a 3-1 win in Ottawa - a game in which the Panthers were clearly the better team in the first, before the Senators came on and dominated the final two periods, outshooting the Cats 39-10 in the latter two frames.

Despite Anderson's strong performance, Tomas Vokoun will be in net tonight. Vokoun needs to get comfortable in net and he needs to do it quickly, so let's hope he can handle the Sharks tonight.

Gregory Campbell is out with a hip flexor, and Belak is dressed in his place tonight, so that will bump McLean up to the Olesz line.

Stillman - Horton - Frolik
Booth - Weiss - Zednik
Olesz - McLean - Dvorak
Peltonen - Kreps - Belak

Skrastins - Bouwmeester
Ballard - Boynton
Welch - Murphy

Vokoun
Anderson

The Rochester Americans are back in action tonight as well, playing their first game since acquiring Jacob Micflikier and Riley Emmerson. Emmerson is a scratch tonight, but Keaton Ellerby will finally make his AHL debut after missing several games with a hand injury.

Beyond Ellerby and Micflikier, Rory Fitzpatrick should be back sometime this weekend (concussion) and Karl Stewart should be good to go as well after having some immigration slowdowns. Lastly, Stefan Meyer is close to getting back, too.

James DeLory was cleared and added back to the Everblades roster during the week, but he's going to be out a little longer as he gets back into game shape. When he returns, he will be learning to play right wing.

In junior, DeLory was a defenseman.

Brynäs has lost a couple of games in a row, now. Most recently, Lindbäck was in net for a 3-1 loss. They play again tomorrow.

Oh, and my bad. Somehow, I forgot about Matt Bartkowski through all of this. Bartkowski was drafted in the seventh round last year from the USHL and has been playing with Ohio State this season.