The Vancouver Canucks had an optional morning skate on Tuesday, before they faced the Buffalo Sabres. There were a few things you might have expected. Depth players like Mark Friedman and Max Sasson were on the ice.

In an NHL Trade Talk weekend rumors update, the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks could both lose a player for a game or two as Connor McDavid and Tyler Myers were given hearings by the NHL Player Safety Committee after two crosschecks that occurred late in Saturday night’s game.

NHL Player Safety announced Oilers captain Connor McDavid and Canucks D-man Tyler Myers are suspended for late-game cross-checks. Here's what the department said.

Donnie & Dhali’s Rick Dhaliwal highlighted that there has not been a request or demand for a trade from Miller or his camp: Canucks are trying to move Miller but Miller’s agent Brian Bartlett tells me his client never went to the team and requested or demanded a trade.

The NHL Department of Player Safety ruled today that Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers would be serving a three-game suspension for his cross-check to the face of Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard in the corner. Following the game, Myers offered the following excuse, saying that Bouchard's hands re-directed his stick higher, via Oilers Nation.

The National Hockey League will hold its hearing into Connor McDavid and Tyler Myers’ crosschecking incidents on Monday. Both hearing are in-person so the most either player can get is a four game suspension.

Rick Tocchet expressed a sentiment Tuesday that NHL head coaches almost never convey when an opposing player receives supplemental discipline, admitting he was disappointed that Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid received a three-game suspension for cross-checking.

Connor McDavid and Tyler Myers received match penalties for cross-checking in the dying seconds between the Oilers and Canucks. Both coaches were asked about the ending.

J.T. Miller came very close to being held out of the Vancouver Canucks’ game against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. That’s according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, who reported live on Hockey Day in Canada that the Canucks came very close to trading Miller.

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers said Monday he did not intend to hit the Edmonton Oilers' Evan Bouchard in the face with a cross-check at the end of Saturday's game.

Suspensions appear to be on the way for both Connor McDavid and Tyler Myers, after Saturday's game between the Oilers and Canucks.

Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid and Vancouver Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers will have hearings for cross-checking incidents that earned match penalties at the end of Saturday night's contest,