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Monday, October 28, 2013

{allcanada} Burrows back Monday for ailing Canucks

VANCOUVER – The return of top-six forward Alexandre Burrows to the Vancouver Canucks lineup for game Monday against the Washington Capitals certainly comes at a time of need.

The Canucks forward group resembled a busy emergency room after losing four forwards on their recent seven-game road trip.

Vancouver lost Dale Weise, David Booth, Jannik Hansen and Jordan Schroeder on their longest trip of the season, and none are ready to return for the first game back home against the Capitals.

Coach John Tortorella said Schroeder requires surgery to have a pin inserted in his ankle and will be out two months. Weise, who was on crutches and wearing a knee brace at the end of the road trip, and Hansen, who slid heavily into the end boards and left holding his arm, are both out three-to-four weeks. Booth is out one or two weeks.

Burrows, who averaged just less than 30 goals the past four full seasons and led the team with 13 in the shortened 2012-13 season, hasn't played since breaking his foot blocking a shot while killing a 5-on-3 in a season opening loss to the San Jose Sharks.

"You guys know [Burrows], you know what he is going to bring," Tortorella said of Burrows. "He is dying to play. I think it will give us a little jolt of enthusiasm. He's a different personality. We need that."

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