We’ll start with the good news, because there hasn’t been much of that lately for the Vancouver Canucks.
Winger Brandon Prust will return to the lineup tonight when the Canucks begin a two-game weekend homestand against the Chicago Blackhawks.
Now the bad. Rookie defenceman Ben Hutton missed practice Friday with an undisclosed injury and will not play tonight. Neither will centre Brandon Sutter, who will miss his fifth consecutive game with a lower-body injury that coach Willie Desjardins acknowledged “has turned out to be a little more than we first expected.”
Winger Radim Vrbata, meanwhile, skated on his own Friday and is a possibility for tonight’s game.