Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished.

Preview: Boston Bruins at St. Louis Blues, 8 p.m. EST. OK, so a three-game winning streak isn't exactly shattering NHL records. But for two underperforming teams like the B's and Blues, it's a pretty big deal, and one of them will have a three-gamer for the first time this season after tonight. Marc Savard(notes)? In! Tim Thomas(notes)? Backup! T.J Oshie's dad? Still blogging!

Preview: New York Islanders at Toronto Maple Leafs, 7 p.m. A bittersweet moment, as the savior of the Maple Leafs franchise steps onto Air Canada Centre ice wearing some other team's jersey.

Preview: Philadelphia Flyers at Colorado Avalanche, 9 p.m. It's the triumphant return of fan favorite Ian Laperriere(notes) to Denver. The Avs are on a 3-6-1 plummet while the Flyers have lost their last two on the road. Mile High Hockey sets the bar for the home team" If the Avalanche lose in regulation tonight, they could get passed by as many as 3 teams in the standings (Columbus, Calgary and Phoenix)." Watch The Game Live Via Hockey Night on Y!

Check out previews and updated scores for all of today's games on the Y! Sports NHL scores and scheds page.

Evening Reading

• If you'd like to know who the Player of the Decade was for the 2000s, you may want to check back here in the morning.

• Five games for Georges Laraque(notes). More in a bit on this. [TSN]

• In a trade that threatens to create a vowel shortage on the new wire, the Minnesota Wild traded Benoit Pouliot(notes) to the Montreal Canadiens for left wing Guillaume Latendresse(notes). The latter player is already excited to meet the Minnesota media, which is usually a sentiment shared by Habs players who don't live up to their potential in Montreal. Now watch him become the next Mike Ribeiro(notes) ... [AP]

• Finally, Sergei Kostitsyn(notes) has come back to Montreal. [Habs]

• Analyzing the Peter Mueller(notes) trade rumors that made the rounds on the HNIC Hot Stove. [Five For Howling]

• Elliotte Friedman's massive column with the 30 items at the end really is one of the best reads in hockey every week. [CBC Sports]

• Interesting moves in the NCAA concerning Michigan, as Robbie Czarnik leaves for the Plymouth Whalers and goaltending recruit Jack Campbell appears headed for the Windsor Spitfires of the OHL "at some point." [WCHB]

• The Tampa Bay Lightning are getting in on the Black Friday sales. Not in, like, a half-off Ryan Malone(notes) kind of way; in a ticket kind of way. [Raw Charge]

Puck Buddy Comment of the Day: From 'CC' in the Puck Headlines today -

I think I speak for millions when I say that whatever other lousy things happen to me today, I can fall back on having seen "Bettman" and "resign" in the same sentence.

Amen to that.

Bold Prediction: Florida beats Pittsburgh in the Panthers' spiffy new uniforms.