Saturday, January 17, 2009

Ference, Bergeron taken off IR: Thomas to start

Milan Lucic (shoulder), Patrice Bergeron (concussion), and Andrew Ference (tibia) will not play tonight against Washington. Andrew Ference and Patrice Bergeron were both taken off Injured Reserve today.

* Tim Thomas will start tonight. This will be Thomas' fourth straight start in goal.

* Matt Lashoff will play his second straight game without a visor. Lashoff said his peripheral vision is slightly better without the shield.

* Aaron Ward has been skating at Ristuccia Arena healing up after aggravating his charley horse injury. Coach Claude Julien said Ward might be available for Monday's matinee against St. Louis.

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