Both the Fantasy Guide and the Draft List are updated as of this afternoon. Also switched up my recommended sleepers in the last 17 slots of the Draft List, and inserted the latest contract details.

The Oilers have cut Olivier Roy.

Leaf fans should be thrilled with how bad the team played last night. They should do the opposite of every single thing they did last year. Including their awesome training camp.

Further to Rosso’s column this morning, Kirill Kabanov was late for practice AGAIN today. Katie Strang says he is being skated hard after practice as punishment. Will they get through to him?

The Calgary Herald reports that Matt Stajan left last night’s game with a shoulder injury and did not return. He’s going to miss some time – how much? Don’t know yet…A big thank you to the commenters below for drawing my attention to some of this stuff. I dig up a lot, but if you in the community have more to share, please do. It helps us all.

Chris Vivlamore reports that Angelo Esposito has been cut. Also, Andre Deveaux and Kyle McLaren have been released from their tryouts. Forney and Postma were among the other cuts.

The Fantasy Guide can be picked up HERE. It was updated through last night. If you prefer paypal over the credit card options, send me an email and I’ll set you up to do that.

Edmonton played with a top line of Taylor Hall, Shawn Horcoff and Ales Hemsky. A couple of sources singled out Shawn Horcoff as the player of the inter-squad game.

As Arbuthnot reported last night, our Frozen Pool section is now tracking full preseason stats.

X-rays were negative on Erik Ersberg’s hand. It is bruised, not broken. Also Brayden Schenn is back on the ice and he scrimmaged yesterday.

Chip Alexander, Hurricanes’ beatwriter, Tweeted this: “O’Sullivan, Dalpe, Bowman, Sanguinetti all helped themselves in preseason opener. Some others disappointed.”

The big news of yesterday involved Marc Savard and a report on ESPN that he was done for the season. I have extensive commentary on this in the Guide, but I’ll talk to it here as well. The report, of course, has since been refuted by the GM and Savard’s agent. We’re talking about symptoms stemming from a serious concussion. Of course that means he could miss the season. He could be done for his career. He could also just miss training camp and then five regular season games. That’s the thing with concussions – we don’t know. And we won’t be able to know for sure if he’s “done for the season” until sometime in February. So ESPN reported… um, the obvious.

Chris Drury could be done for the season. There, now DobberHockey is reporting something just as unique as ESPN did. Sure, Drury only has a broken finger… but it COULD get infected, and then not heal properly. And then he COULD have surgery on it. And what if the surgery is unsuccessful? Yep, I stand by my report – Drury could be done for the season.

In all seriousness though, Savard’s headaches are all too real and it sounds like he’ll need rest for at least a few weeks, and then he’ll need a couple of weeks to get back into shape. Best-case scenario in my books is that he misses a dozen games. ESPN already stated the worst-case. Of course, that report could have come to my attention PRIOR to the Expert’s draft… but hell, I took him like 180th, so I’m not hurt that bad. I also made the rare decision to draft a fifth center to cover myself off (Shawn Horcoff). Anyway – owners of Savard are stuck with him now, as he has zero trade value thanks to the ESPN Obvious Report (it will hitherto be known as).

Flyers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky made his debut last night and by all accounts had a solid outing, particularly in the shootout. He could be No.3 on their depth chart and with both of Philly’s current goalies getting hurt last season, we could very well see Bobrovsky this year.

Calgary goalie Henrik Karlsson also saw his first NHL action, stopping all 12 shots he faced in 40 minutes. I think he’s the best backup the Flames have had in years and as such should hold Kipper’s starts down lower than usual.

Notable camp cuts (since yesterday’s update):
Joey Hishon, COL
Stanislav Galiev, WAS
Anton Gustafsson, WAS
Dmitry Kugryshev, WAS (this one strikes me as early)

What a fantastic look at Nashville’s camp so far, by On the Forecheck. Naturally, a little biased, but still – incredibly in-depth and gives you a great idea on some of the players. Man, I wish all teams had such a great blog. And no, they didn’t pay me LOL. On interest – Taylor Beck’s fantastic camp, Jonas Anderson’s role in the NHL, and the chemistry between Erat and Lombardi.

I remember seeing a comment recently about how Nashville will do worse this season because of the downgrade from Arnott to Lombardi. My opinion – that’s an upgrade at this stage in Arnott’s career. Both in durability and talent.

According to the coach, and that’s the opinion that matters, the most impressive Thrashers last night were the line of Bryan Little, Fredrik Pettersson and Nigel Dawes. The latter two are fighting for an NHL job.