Broadcast Info

Lineups

LW	C	RW
Daniel Sedin	Henrik Sedin	Alexandre Burrows
Linden Vey	Nick Bonino	Radim Vrbata
Shawn Matthias	Brad Richardson	Zack Kassian
Derek Dorsett	Bo Horvat	Jannik Hansen

Defensive Pairings
Alexander Edler	Chris Tanev
Ryan Stanton	Kevin Bieksa
Luca Sbisa	Yannick Weber

Chris Higgins will return to the lineup, likely in place of Linden Vey. Frank Corrado may also make his season debut, likely in place of Yannick Weber. Ryan Miller is expected to start in goal.

LW	C	RW
Johnny Gaudreau	Sean Monahan	Jiri Hudler
Mason Raymond	Mikael Backlund	Paul Byron
Curtis Glencross	Markus Granlund	Joe Colborne
Lance Bouma	Matt Stajan	David Jones

Defensive Pairings
Mark Giordano	T.J. Brodie
Kris Russell	Dennis Wideman
Ladislav Smid	Deryk Engelland

Jonas Hiller played last night, so Joni Ortio may make his season debut in goal tonight for Calgary.

Head to Head

Storylines

• Firefighters – The Vancouver Canucks have defeated the Calgary Flames nine consecutive times, and are 8-0-0 at home against their Alberta rivals since March 31st, 2012. Henrik Sedin has 15 points in his last 11 games against Calgary, while Vancouver has held the dynamic Flames duo of Mark Giordano and TJ Brodie off the scoresheet. In a combined 19 career games, the D pair has just two points – both courtesy of Giordano. They’ll look to continue this dominance and push the winning streak to 10 games tonight.
• Flaming Out – After a red hot start to the year, fueled by hard work and the leadership of Bob Hartley and not by unsustainable percentages in any way we’ll have you know, Calgary has cooled off significantly of late, and are losing ground in the Pacific division playoff race. They now sit just two points up on Dallas for the final playoff spot in the West, having lost 6 of their last 10 games, and five of their last 6 on the road. Most of this was expected due to their woeful possession numbers, and it would not be at all surprising if this was just the beginning of a season-long slump.
• Corrado to Debut? – Since Dan Hamhuis went down with a lower body injury, the same six defensemen have taken the ice for the Canucks in every game since: Alex Edler, Chris Tanev, Kevin Bieksa, Yannick Weber, Luca Sbisa, and Ryan Stanton. The results have been significantly less than desirable as well, as Stanton and Sbisa in particular have struggled, while Bieksa hasn’t been good either. Should Corrado make his season debut tonight, it will likely be at the expense of Yannick Weber though, as both are right handed shots, and there’s no way that the Canucks would healthy scratch Kevin Bieksa.

Gameday Reading

• Canucks.com’s Tale of the Tape
• TSN Radio Game Preview
• The Vancouver Giants made some moves at the WHL trade deadline. Steve Ewen has coverage here
• Canucks prospect Andrey Pedan with one of the most vicious KO’s you’ve ever seen
• Ryan Pike at the Flames Nation has the Calgary side of things covered in their game preview