SHARKS (34-22-6) at CANUCKS (24-26-12)
TV: 10 p.m. ET, CSN-CA, SNP, NHL.TV
Season series: This is the second of three games the San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks will play against each other this week. The Sharks won 4-1 on Sunday, scoring four third-period goals. Joe Pavelski and Tomas Hertl scored 2:28 apart, Patrick Marleau had a power-play goal, and Justin Braun scored an empty-net goal for the Sharks. Daniel Sedin scored for the Canucks. The teams play again Saturday in San Jose.
Sharks team scope: Goalie Martin Jones will make his 10th straight start. James Reimer, acquired last Saturday from the Toronto Maple Leafs, will meet the Sharks in Vancouver and serve as the backup to Jones. San Jose is 3-1-1 in its past five games and 16-4-4 in its past 24. The Sharks hold the third playoff spot in the Pacific Division, 14 points ahead of Vancouver. The Sharks signed right wing Jon Martin, captain of Swift Current of the Western Hockey League, to an entry-level contract on Wednesday. Five Sharks players: forwards Pavelski (USA), Hertl (Czech Republic) and Joonas Donskoi (Finland), and defensemen Marc-Edouard Vlasic (Canada) and Roman Polak (Czech Republic), were named to their countries' preliminary rosters for the World Cup of Hockey.
Canucks team scope: Forward Brendan Gaunce, recalled from Utica of the American Hockey League Tuesday on an emergency basis, did not practice Wednesday. "I wish he would have practiced today," Canucks coach Willie Desjardins told the Vancouver Province. "But… there's a good chance he'll be in (the lineup)." Radim Vrbata, who has missed three games with a groin strain, skated on the fourth line at practice Wednesday, but may not play in favor of Gaunce. Forward Jannik Hansen, who did not play in a 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders on Tuesday because he sustained a rib injury shooting the puck during morning skate, could be out two weeks, Desjardins told the paper. The Canucks are 2-6-0 in their past eight games and 4-9-1 in their past 14. Forwards Daniel and Henrik Sedin, and goalie Jacob Markstrom were selected to play for Team Sweden in the World Cup. Hansen was selected for Team Europe.
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