The Vancouver Canucks are still looking for their first win of the season as the Montreal Canadiens pay a visit to GM place. Montreal is coming off a tough 4-3 loss to Calgary last night, while the Canucks last played in a lost to Columbus on Monday night.
Vancouver will have two changes in their lineup as they look to shake things up a bit. Defenseman Aaron Rome will see his first regular season action replacing Shane O'Brien, while Tanner Glass will enter the lineup for the struggling rookie Sergei Shirokov. The lines are expected to look like this:
Canucks
D.Sedin-H.Sedin-Burrows
Raymond-Kesler-Samuelsson
Glass-Wellwood-Bernier
Hordichuk-Johnson-Rypien
Mitchell-Salo
Edler-Ehrhoff
Rome-Bieksa
Roberto Luongo
Andrew Raycroft
Canadiens
Cammalleri-Gomez-Gionta
Pacioretty-Plekanec-A.Kostitsyn
Latendresse-Lapierre-Moen
Stewart-Chipchura-Laraque
Hamrlik-Spacek
Gill-Gorges
Mara-Weber
Carey Price
Jaroslav Halak
Our take: It's pretty much a must win for the Canucks tonight. If they don't win, and especially if they play poorly, expect a major backlash from fans and media alike. Roberto Luongo MUST be better, and I expect him to comeback with a vengeance. Kevin Bieksa has been god awful, as has Ryan Kesler and the whole 4th line. In order to get out of this early slump, all parties will have to step up their play.
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