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Another day on the road for the Walking Dead.

No idea yet who's suiting up, and I'm guessing Foote is in the same boat.

The only bright spot is that Lankinen seems to step a bit when he's not 'the backup'.

We face a lightning bay team that has won 8 of its last 10, including a game last night against FLA.

So to recap:
Lots of injuries
Facing a hot team
Early east coast start
First of a back-to-back

But.... this team has shown to be resilient, and just might surprise us.

GO CANUCKS GO

Good news back-up goalie.

Bad news he is 3-1, 2.83, .913.

Maybe he will get a shutout.

As an aside Brayden Point is sucking the hind tit this year which is helping none of my pools.

Being it's the Canucks....

You have to tip your hat to this rookie Canucks coaching staff. They've endured unprecedented injury challenges and have for the most part kept this team in games against opponents they probably have no business hanging with. All this despite pretty mediocre goaltending to boot.

Yeah...agreed...actually made mention of this last week in a post about something else.

The team has nuts, and doesn't quit.

Coaches get credit for that....

Canucks projected lineup

Evander Kane -- Elias Pettersson -- Conor Garland
Brock Boeser -- Lukas Reichel -- Kiefer Sherwood
Drew O'Connor -- Aatu Raty -- Jake DeBrusk
Mackenzie MacEachern -- Max Sasson -- Linus Karlsson

Elias Nils Pettersson -- Filip Hronek
Marcus Pettersson -- Tyler Myers
P.O Joseph -- Tom Willander

Kevin Lankinen
Jiri Patera

Scratched: Arshdeep Bains, Victor Mancini
Injured: Quinn Hughes (upper body), Thatcher Demko (lower body), Filip Chytil (concussion protocol), Teddy Blueger (lower body), Nils Hoglander (lower body), Derek Forbort (undisclosed)

lightning projected lineup

Jake Guentzel -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Gage Goncalves -- Yanni Gourde -- Jakob Pelletier
Zemgus Girgensons -- Jack Finley -- Oliver Bjorkstrand
Boris Katchouk -- Curtis Douglas -- Scott Sabourin

J.J. Moser -- Max Crozier
Charle-Edouard D'Astous -- Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg -- Darren Raddysh

Jonas Johansson
Andrei Vasilevskiy

Scratched: None
Injured: Brandon Hagel (upper body), Nick Paul (upper body), Ryan McDonagh (undisclosed), Pontus Holmberg (undisclosed), Dominic James (undisclosed), Victor Hedman (undisclosed), Anthony Cirell (upper body)

Status report

The Canucks signed forward David Kämpf to a one year, $1.1 million contract Saturday. ... Demko, a goalie, was placed on injured reserve Friday. ... Mancini, a defenseman, was activated off IR on Friday. ... Paul, a forward, is expected to return as early as Tuesday, when the Lightning are home against the New Jersey Devils.

Hronek bolded.

Read somewhere he is in protocol?

Also read he is top total minutes guy in the league this year.

A number of key Lightning missing as well....

1/2 team vs 3/4 team

4-3 half team

Gotta be plucky to be lucky.

Bill Laforge P-H-D would be proud.

Let's Go!

Hughes and Hronek are both in tonight.

Positive.

Hope that means PO is out.

'Ning has two absolute behemoth AHLers on their fourth line.

Garland with the quick fight and takedown!

First!

SOG

Just how slow and weak are the Vancouver wingers anyway? They just don't win puck battles on ring arounds do they? Like ever?