{"id":283389,"date":"2025-11-14T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:28:13","slug":"east-notes-tkachuk-coleman-jensen-newhook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283389\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Tkachuk, Coleman, Jensen, Newhook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, George Richards of Florida Hockey Now passed<\/a> along a note from Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice<\/a> indicating that Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> could begin skating by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

The news does not significantly alter Tkachuk\u2019s recovery timeline, which is still expected to be around mid-December. Still, it\u2019s confirmation that he\u2019s on the right track to returning on time from his groin injury, which is nothing but music to the ears of the Panthers and the USA\u2019s Olympic roster.<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s last time on the ice came with a Stanley Cup above his shoulders for the second time in as many years. Florida has struggled out of the gates without their top two highest-paid forwards and would significantly benefit from adding Tkachuk\u2019s goal-scoring and physicality back into the mix.<\/p>\n

Other notes from the Eastern Conference:<\/p>\n

According to David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period (per James Nichols of NJ Hockey Now<\/a>), the New Jersey Devils are contemplating an attempt to bring back a familiar face. Pagnotta indicated that the Devils are interested in acquiring forward Blake Coleman<\/a> from the Calgary Flames, who scored 57 goals and 94 points in 237 games for New Jersey from 2016 to 2020. Unfortunately, Coleman has a $4.9MM salary for this year and next with a 10-team no-trade clause, which is something the Devils couldn\u2019t afford unless they moved out their own salary.
\nOutside of ending the Boston Bruins\u2019 seven-game winning streak, the Ottawa Senators are dealing with some injury concerns on their blue line. The Senators announced<\/a> that defenseman Nick Jensen<\/a> had left the game due to an upper-body injury, and didn\u2019t have any updates regarding his status after the game. Jensen finished the game with one hit and two giveaways with a -1 rating in 12:02 of action.
\nThe Montreal Canadiens are dealing with some injury concerns from their lopsided loss to the Dallas Stars tonight. Montreal shared<\/a> that Alex Newhook<\/a> had left the game with an undisclosed injury and is still being evaluated. His only mark on the scoresheet was his brief time on ice of 5:54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, George Richards of Florida Hockey Now passed along a note from Florida Panthers head coach Paul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[116506,64,63,88132,3274,3899,35871,5790,7519,575,163699,6597,85],"class_list":["post-283389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-newhook","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blake-coleman","tag-florida-panthers","tag-injury","tag-matthew-tkachuk","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl","tag-nick-jensen","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}