The Vancouver Canucks are just hours away from a pivotal game against the Calgary Flames, and some lineup information has become available.

Because the team played last night before getting on a plane and heading to Calgary, the Canucks elected not to hold a morning skate today, meaning head coach Rick Tocchet didn’t meet with the media until later in the day. When he did though, the Canucks’ bench boss confirmed that Kevin Lankinen would be in the crease tonight and that captain Quinn Hughes would make his return to the lineup.

Tocchet said post game on Tuesday that there was a “good possibility” Hughes would return tonight after skating in a non-contact jersey at yesterday’s morning skate.

Hughes has been sidelined since March 1st, when he couldn’t play for most of the third period of the Canucks’ game against the Seattle Kraken. He played just one 54-second shift in the final 10 minutes of the third period in that game, and hasn’t been back since. That was just Hughes’s third game back from a previous injury, suffered against the Dallas Stars on January 31st.

That injury, believed to be an oblique injury, held Hughes out for most of the month of February. On the whole, he’s missed 14 of the Canucks’ 64 games this season. As the Canucks’ leading scorer by still a fairly significant margin, he’s obviously a very welcome addition to the club’s blueline for tonight’s game.

In goal, Kevin Lankinen will start games on back-to-back nights, as he was the Canucks’ choice for Tuesday night’s 4-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens, a game Lankinen made 23 saves on 26 shots in.

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