The Vancouver Canucks are grinding out rival games night after night without their top defence pairing, their captain centreman, and their leading defensive forward. Perhaps there is optimism to be found in the fact that the Canucks managed to stay in the game for nearly 50 minutes against the red-hot San Jose Sharks on Monday.
That being said, the veterans are the ones going down with the injuries. The average age of the currently injured Canucks is 29.2.
Henrik Sedin is out with an upper-body injury and is questionable for Saturday’s showdown versus the Nashville Predators.