Quick Hits: Provorov’s Contract, Byfuglien, and Injury Notes
Provorov contract breakdown

Pierre LeBrun: Ivan Provorov contract breakdown.

Year 1, $6.75 M salary;
Year 2, $2 M SB plus $2.75 M salary;
Year 3, $3 M SB plus $4.125 M salary;
Year 4, $2 M SB plus $2.75 M salary;
Year 5, $3 M SB plus $5.5 M salary;
Year 6, $2 M SB plus $6.625 M salary

Byfuglien leaves Jets

Winnipeg Jets PR: The Jets granted defenseman Dustin Byfuglien permission to take a personal leave of absence from the team.

Injury notes

Anaheim Ducks: GM Bob Murray confirmed that forwards Patrick Eaves and Ryan Kesler will miss the entire season.

Mike Heika: Dallas Stars GM Jim Nill said that Corey Perry has a small fracture in his foot and will be re-evaluated in two weeks.

Defenseman Stephen Johns isn’t skating.

Jordan Hall: Philadelphia Flyers forward Nolan Patrick hasn’t had his upper-body injury cleared for training camp yet.

Jenna Ortiz: Arizona Coyotes GM John Chayka said that defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson is day-to-day.

OEL had an offseason procedure to repair a nagging injury.

Chris Kuc: Chicago Blackhawks injury updates.

Kirby Dach is in concussion protocol.

Calvin de Haan is out for another two or three weeks as he recovers from a groin strain and shoulder surgery.

Philipp Kurashev is day-to-day with left knee and shoulder contusion.

  • Charlie Roumeliotis: GM Stan Bowman on Dach: “It’s too bad. I thought he played well . But this is part of it. We don’t need to make any determinations today, it’s the first day of camp. We’ll just let that play out.”

Raphael Doucet: Montreal Canadiens coach Claude Julien said that Gustav Olofsson is out with a shoulder injury. The shoulder is not the same one as last year.

  • Andrew Zadarnowski: Injury history for Olofsson.
    14-15: Season-ending shoulder surgery
    15-16: Season-ending shoulder (other one) surgery
    16-17: Torn ligaments in right knee (MCL and ACL)
    17-18: Concussion
    18-19: Season-ending surgery on right shoulder (4th shoulder surgery) 2019: Shoulder injury