Injury Notes: Staal, Carcillo, Whitney, Weber, Smith-Pelly

Latest injury news from around the league:

• ESPNNY.com’s Katie Strang reports defenseman Marc Staal appeared no worse for wear after participating in contact drills with the New York Rangers for the first time this season.
• Chris Kuc of the Chicago Tribune proposes Daniel Carcillo could be back in the lineup Wednesday  for the first time since sustaining the suspected concussion on December 14th.
• Defenseman Ryan Whitney could miss even more time for the Edmonton Oilers this season. ”There’s no real structural damage where Whit had the surgery,” Tom Renney told the Edmonton Journal, “but he’s having some difficulty with it.”
• Defenseman Shea Weber is dealing with an “upper-body” injury serious enough to have kept him off the ice for Monday’s game. Josh Cooper of the Tennessean suggests we won’t know more about the nature and severity until near lunch time on Tuesday. UPDATE:  Josh Cooper tweeted, defenseman Shea Weber is out with a concussion. Not timetable yet.
• Orange County Register reports the Anaheim Ducks right wing Devante Smith-Pelly suffered a broken bone in his left foot Monday while playing for Canada at the IIHF World Junior Championship, knocking him out of the rest of the tournament.
• The Ottawa Citizen reports Milan Michalek is pegged to skate on a line with Daniel Alfredsson and Jason Spezza in his first game for the Ottawa Senators since sustaining a concussion Dec. 13.