Music: {allcanada} DUCKS (31-10-6) at CANUCKS (26-16-3)

Monday, January 26, 2015

{allcanada} DUCKS (31-10-6) at CANUCKS (26-16-3)

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

10:00 PM ET

DUCKS (31-10-6) at CANUCKS (26-16-3)

TV: PRIME, SNP

Season series: The Anaheim Ducks have won two of three games against the Vancouver Canucks. All three games went past regulation. Center Ryan Getzlaf leads the Ducks with four points (two goals); he had an assist on Cam Fowler's game-winner in a 2-1 overtime victory at Honda Center on Dec. 28. Center Nick Bonino scored the deciding goal to lift the Canucks to a 2-1 shootout win Nov. 9 in his return to Anaheim; he was moved to Vancouver over the summer as part of the Ryan Kesler trade.

Ducks team scope: Getzlaf had a goal and an assist as alternate captain for Team Toews in the 2015 Honda NHL All-Star Game on Sunday. He was the only Anaheim player to participate in All-Star Weekend. Getzlaf is on a four-game point streak (two goals, three assists) and has at least a point in seven of eight. Defenseman Clayton Stoner was back at practice Monday, according to the Ducks website, after he sat out a 6-3 win against the Calgary Flames on Jan. 21 because of a lower-body injury. The Ducks lead the NHL with 68 points after winning five straight games and eight of 10 heading into the All-Star break. Beginning with their visit to the Canucks, they will play seven of their next nine games on the road.

Canucks teams scope: Defenseman Kevin Bieksa is out indefinitely after he broke his hand in a 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Jan. 20. Bieksa was injured in Vancouver's third game with defenseman Dan Hamhuis back in the lineup after he missed two months because of a groin injury. "Now we're used to, I guess, having one of our D out, so it's not something that we haven't been used to and playing with," coach Willie Desjardins said Monday. "But we'll miss Kevin. He's been a big part of our team. He's always a guy when a game gets tough, he's always a guy that gets better. So we'll miss him, for sure. But, like any injury, somebody else has to step up and play well." The Canucks are counting on rookie Frank Corrado to be that somebody. Corrado, 21, who has played four games since being recalled from Utica of the American Hockey League earlier this month, scored the second goal of his career against Tampa Bay. He and Hamhuis will likely be a pair. Vancouver won three of four before the All-Star break and is in third place in the Pacific Division, two points ahead of the Calgary Flames. Forward Radim Vrbata, who represented the Canucks at the All-Star Game, had a goal and an assist for Team Foligno. His 18 goals lead Vancouver.

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