New Anaheim Ducks forward Alex Killorn will be sidelined for four to six weeks with a broken finger, the team announced Saturday.

Killorn was injured Wednesday night in an exhibition game against San Jose. He signed a four-year, $25 million deal with Anaheim in July after playing the previous 11 seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Minnesota Wild signed forwards Mats Zuccarello and Marcus Foligno to contract extensions on Friday.

Zuccarello signed a two-year, $8.25 million contract extension on Friday that will keep him with the team through the 2025-26 season.

Foligno followed later in the day by signing a four-year extension worth $16 million.

Connor Bedard played in his first preseason game with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, and fans of the Original Six franchise were ready.

So was Bedard, who had two assists in Chicago's 2-1 overtime win over the St. Louis Blues.

"I felt pretty good and comfortable and stuff, but I think I could do a lot better," Bedard said. "I don't know if there was a surprise. Obviously less room, but that's nothing I didn't expect, so just kind of get used to it here."

The Ottawa Senators appointed Steve Staios as president of hockey operations on Friday.

Earlier on Friday morning, Staios resigned from his position as special adviser to hockey operations with the Edmonton Oilers.

"I am so excited that Steve is joining me in Ottawa to lead our hockey operations," Senators new owner Michael Andlauer in a news release. "I have worked with Steve for many years and know first-hand that he will strengthen our team with his hockey acumen, attention to detail, commitment to excellence and enthusiasm for the game and its players. In hockey you can never accumulate too much talent. Having Steve and Pierre (Dorion, general manager) leading our hockey department gives us a formidable team."

Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy is expected to miss the first two months of the regular season after having back surgery Thursday.

Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced Vasilevskiy, a five-time NHL All-Star and the 2019 Vezina Trophy winner, underwent a successful microdiscectomy Thursday morning to repair a lumbar disc herniation.

Calgary Flames forward Jakob Pelletier will undergo surgery on his left shoulder and is out indefinitely.

The team announced Wednesday that surgery will be performed next week.

The injury occurred Monday night in a preseason game against the Seattle Kraken when Pelletier, 22, was pushed into the boards by Marian Studenic. As Pelletier writhed in pain on the ice, his teammates went after Studenic.

Washington Capitals defenseman Joel Edmundson is recovering from hand surgery and expected to miss four to six weeks.

He broke his hand in a scrimmage at training camp Sunday, and Tuesday's surgery was to stabilize the fracture.

The Capitals acquired Edmundson in a trade with the Montreal Canadiens on July 1.

The condition of Calgary Flames assistant general manager Chris Snow, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2019, has taken a turn for the worse, his wife Kelsie Snow said Wednesday on social media.

Chris Snow and his wife, Kelsie, have been very public about his condition since he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Wednesday, Kelsie Snow announced that he went into cardiac arrest on Tuesday.

"With a shattered heart I've come to share that yesterday Chris became unresponsive and went into cardiac arrest," Kelsie Snow posted to X. "Paramedics and doctors were able to get his heart beating again but, devastatingly, a scan showed Chris has suffered a catastrophic brain injury caused by lack of oxygen. His doctors do not expect him to wake up from this."

Two of the bigger questions facing the Calgary Flames were answered Wednesday when they signed center Mikael Backlund to a two-year extension while also naming him their captain.

Re-signing Backlund, 34, to a two-year deal worth $4.5 million annually resolved one of the most prominent issues facing the team entering training camp.

"This is a very special day for my family and I," said Backlund, the 24th overall pick in the 2007 NHL draft.

It's been a week of firsts for women in the National Hockey League.

Professional Women's Hockey League coach Kori Cheverie was behind the bench for the Pittsburgh Penguins' preseason game Sunday, and then AHL coach Jessica Campbell did the same for the Seattle Kraken on Monday.

Other women have been behind NHL benches in the past as trainers and in other roles, but not as coaches.