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Nabokov day-to-day, DiPietro likely to start Saturday, Niederreiter takes a skate

Jack Capuano said Evgeni Nabokov (lower body) is day-to-day. Nabokov didn't skate today and Capuano said, "You probably won't see him for the next day or two," after Nabokov suffered the injury in the first period in Pittsburgh on Thursday and made it through regulation and overtime before giving way to Rick DiPietro.

DiPietro, meanwhile, may "get his opportunity soon,"...

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