Blackhawks forward Daniel Carcillo faces a Saturday disciplinary hearing for a hit on Carolina defenseman Joni Pitkanen early in Friday's 3-0 win by the Hurricanes. Pitkanen was chasing down a Chicago dump-in when Carcillo tied up his stick from behind and gave him a push into the end boards. No penalty was called on the play. Carcillo has been suspended numerous times in his career, including for the first two games of this season because of an altercation with officials during last year's playoffs.

Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien has pleaded not guilty to four counts stemming from a boating incident in Minnesota. Byfuglien is accused of boating while intoxicated and refusing to take a blood or urine test, and other charges. The criminal complaint says his boat was stopped on Lake Minnetonka on Aug. 31 because the navigational lights weren’t on.

A pilot helping to investigate a Russian jet crash that killed 44 people, including an entire hockey team, said Thursday that a simulation pointed to pilot error as the cause. The Yak-42 jet crashed into the banks of the Volga River Sept. 7 moments after takeoff from the city of Yaroslavl in western Russia, wiping out Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of Russia's CHL, including several former NHL players. Test pilot Vasily Sevastyanov told state-run Channel One television that the plane went into a spin because a pilot pulled it up too sharply following an abnormally slow run.

A Minnesota judge threw out a felony charge against the brother of Derek Boogaard on Thursday for supplying a painkiller that contributed to the player's overdose death earlier this year. Aaron Boogaard, 24, told police he gave his brother an oxycodone pill at the start of a night of partying that led to Boogaard's death May 13 at age 28. Aaron Boogaard was charged with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance.