Two games for the Vancouver Canucks since the last injury update, and it is the same story. Thank god? Dan Hamhuis is out big-time with a facial fracture, and the Canucks expect the veteran blue liner to miss at least two months of action. Brandon Sutter is out after a sports hernia operation, and is expected to be out until perhaps the end of January. Luca Sbisa looks to return after the Christmas break, nursing a hand injury.
In the past two games without Hamhuis, the Canucks faced some of the league’s best offence.