Whether you’re interested for fantasy hockey reasons or just want to know which goalie your team is playing in a given day, we thought it might be helpful to share our best guesses (based on various previews from newspapers and Web sites plus our own instincts) on who might start each day.
It’s a race against the clock to get these up before you need to pick your starters for the first set of games, so they’re going to be quip-free today.
7:00 pm ET games
Boston @ Toronto
Likely Boston starter: Tim Thomas (Source.)
Likely Toronto starter: J.S. Giguere (Source.)
Buffalo @ Ottawa
Likely Buffalo starter: Ryan Miller
Likely Ottawa starter: Brian Elliott (Source.)
Atlanta @ Washington
Likely Atlanta starter: Ondrej Pavelec
Likely Washington starter: Semyon Varlamov (Source.)
Pittsburgh @ Columbus
Likely Pittsburgh starter: Marc-Andre Fleury (Source.)
Likely Columbus starter: Steve Mason (Source.)
7:30 pm ET game
Colorado @ Tampa Bay
Likely Colorado starter: Peter Budaj (Source.)
Likely Tampa Bay starter: Dan Ellis (Source.)
8:00 pm ET games
Carolina @ Nashville
Likely Carolina starter: Cam Ward (Source.)
Likely Nashville starter: Anders Lindback (Source.)
Minnesota @ Dallas
Likely Minnesota starter: Jose Theodore (Source.)
Likely Dallas starter: Kari Lehtonen (Source.)
Florida @ Phoenix
Likely Florida starter: Scott Clemmensen (Source.)
Likely Phoenix starter: Ilya Bryzgalov (Source.)