One comes back in, another one comes out... we've seen this story a few times already this year. The Dallas Stars welcomed Niklas Grossman back to their line-up after missing a couple of games with the flu and Box 12 defenseman Matt Niskanen was the player who drew the shortest straw and had to come out. Niskanen hasn't been having a good season offensively, so he made it rather easy to choose who goes up to the press box.
The healthy scratches of regular forwards seems to be contagious in Phoenix this year, as Box 6 forward Martin Hanzal was the latest visitor of the press box on Wednesday night. Hanzal has been struggling to stay consistent with his scoring as well and it was likely only going to be a matter of time before his name was called.
Just like I pondered yesterday, I had a feeling Nazem Kadri was going to be sent down to the minors, since the healthy scratches kept piling up. Unfortunately for the Box 25 forward, he still has to serve a 2-game suspension in the AHL for an incident in November. It's hard to say whether or not Kadri will get called up after he serves his suspension or the most likely scenario, in my opinion, is that he plays 5-to-10 games to get his confidence back and then make his way back up to the big club.Link to the Injury/News Page
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