Player Notes in the Draft (Feb 3)

Flames forward Mikael Backlund missed out on Monday night's game, hosting the Jets, due to an illness that has been going around the locker room in Calgary. It doesn't sound like the team expects him to miss much more time on top of this one game, because he was a game-time decision for last night's contest, which likely meant that he wasn't feeling too bad, just not great.

Backlund has missed more than his fair share of games this season, but when he has been in, he has been fairly decent for Wyllie, who has collected 14 points in 21 games.  Assuming that Backlund isn't out for too long, Wyllie should be back to collecting points again from him before too long.

Things thought to be a-okay with Taylor Hall, making a return from a bone bruise in his leg last night against the Sharks, but the return didn't last very long, as he left the game in San Jose with an apparent foot injury.  Hall did manage to have an assist in his brief appearance in the Oilers lineup, bringing his season totals up to 30 points in 42 games played, but injuries are really starting to stack up on him, even if they are brief in timetables.

Another injury for Wyllie's team, which has been fairly unlucky this season.  Wyllie ranks 20th in the pool in skater games played and 22nd in goalie minutes, the two statistics you don't really want to be down at the bottom of to compete in the season.

An updated list of injuries can be found here.