Here are tonight's projected line combinations for the San Jose Sharks and the Vancouver Canucks.
The San Jose Sharks face (3-15-2) the Vancouver Canucks (14-6-1) for the third time this season and the second time this week.
Vancouver has won both matchups this season. San Jose lost the first game 10-1 and the second game 3-1.
Quinn Hughes has been a superstar this season with 32 points (8 goals, 24 assists).
The Sharks lost Filip Zadina to an upper-body injury in the first period of San Jose's game against the Montreal Canadiens yesterday. Sharks head coach David Quinn said that Kevin Labanc will draw into the lineup for the injured forward. He also confirmed that Kaapo Kahkonen will start in goal.
Andrei Kuzmenko was a healthy scratch for the Canucks yesterday. There was no explanation of whether the decision was injury-related or performance-related. Kuzmenko has been a staple in Vancouver's top-6 forwards.
Here are tonight's projected line combinations for the San Jose Sharks and the Vancouver Canucks.
Sharks Projected Lines:
Eklund-Hertl-Hoffman
Zetterlund-Granlund-Duclair
Kunin-Sturm-MacDonald
Smith-Carpenter-Labanc
Ferraro-Emberson
Addison-Benning
Vlasic-Burroughs
Kahkonen
Blackwood
Canucks Projected Lines:
Lafferty-Pettersson-Mikheyev
Beauvillier-Miller-Boeser
Joshuah-Blueger-Garland
PDG-Aman-Hoglander
Hughes-Hronek
Friedman-Myers
Cole-Juulsen
DeSmith
Demko
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