Canucks Sport Day: Hapless Sharks could be an actual banana-peel to slide on

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Vancouver Canucks (6-2-1) at San Jose Sharks (0-8-1)

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When/the place: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. SAP Middle

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TV: SN Pacific. Radio: Sportsnet 650

The excitement: The Canucks are coming off a win that was nearly their most untidy of the season. Wednesday they had been centered in on getting again to the nice issues they’ve been doing. The Sharks are terrible. They’ve scored 9 objectives in 9 video games and given up 35. Merely put, they don’t seem to be an excellent group. The Canucks are taking themselves significantly — it is a recreation they need to win.

The historical past: The Canucks swept final season’s collection 4-0, taking the primary two video games of the 12 months in additional time, then trouncing the Sharks within the latter two video games 6-2 and 7-2. Issues don’t look a lot better for the Sharks, who’re low on expertise as it’s however are lacking captain Logan Couture, who’s slowly working his manner again from an low season damage that has solely been described as “lower-body.”

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The hope: The Canucks rebound from Tuesday’s mess and get again to the “staples” Tocchet has so usually underlined.

The concern: The winless Sharks lastly put collectively a aggressive efficiency and get a bunch of luck to upset the Canucks.

The highest weapons: Elias Pettersson was named the second star of the month by the NHL. He has posted 16 factors in 9 video games thus far. J.T. Miller, who was briefly benched on Tuesday after a trio of penalties, has 13 factors in 9 video games, whereas captain Quinn Hughes has racked up 11 factors in 9 video games. Tomáš Hertl, the one ahead of any be aware on San Jose, has 5 factors in 9 video games.

The wounded: Canucks: Teddy Blueger (ankle), Guillaume Brisebois (concussion, LTIR). Shakrs: Logan Couture: out (decrease physique), Matt Benning: out (decrease physique), Mitchell Russell: out (undisclosed), Alexander Barabanov: out (finger).

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The quote: “I can say my speech or no matter I say, however after I go away, it’s the 2 or three minutes after I go away, that’s a very powerful issues which might be being stated within the room,” Rick Tocchet stated about when a group has sturdy management. “And I do really feel that they’re saying the appropriate issues after I go away.”

The lineup:

Forwards

Mikheyev-Pettersson-Kuzmenko

Di Giuseppe-Miller-Boeser

Beauvillier-Suter-Garland

Joshua-Lafferty-Höglander

Defence

Hughes-Hronek

Cole-Friedman

Soucy-Myers.

The prediction: This recreation has traditional banana-peel potential for the high-flying Canucks, however the Sharks are so poor, it’s exhausting to see this being a recreation that goes fully sideways for the guests.

This looks like a 4-1 for the Canucks.

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