Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, the Vancouver Canucks (4-2-0, eight points) and Colorado Avalanche (1-4-2, four points) take the ice at the Pepsi Center in Colorado for the first of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Vancouver fans can hear all of the action on TEAM 1040 while Colorado fans can do the same on WKRZ 950.
Vancouver plays for the second straight night after stopping a two-game skid Thursday while Colorado is off to a rocky start and has dropped four straight games.
The Canucks used four different goal scorers to overcome the St. Louis Blues 4-1 Thursday and will play their third road game in four nights.
Goaltender Ryan Miller defeated his old team by stopping 31 of 32 shots in the victory.
"I've never had a chance to play a former team. It was one I was really looking forward to," he told the Canucks official website afterward.
Miller, who is 4-1-0 with a 2.71 goals-against average and .908 save percentage thus far this season, may have the night off due to the back-to-back which would thrust Eddie Lack into a starting role.
Colorado is likely to counter with Semyon Varlamov, who is 0-2-1 with a 3.80 GAA and .910 save percentage.
On offense, Vancouver has been paced by the Sedin twins as Daniel Sedin (one tally, seven helpers) and Henrik Sedin (two goals, six assists) each has a team-best eight points.
Newcomer Radim Vrbata plays on the top line with the Sedins and has lit the lamp four times while adding three assists to rank second on the team with seven points.
The Avalanche are hoping that Varlamov will be strong in his return from a groin injury as he searches for his first win of the season after notching 41 victories a season ago.
"I can tell you I feel good right now," Varlamov told the Avalanche website Thursday. "I'm rested. I'm ready to go. I'm healthy."
Colorado has struggled to score thus far this season as three of their players are tied for the team lead with just four points, including Matt Duchene (two goals, two assists), Ryan O'Reilly (one tally, three helpers) and newcomer Jarome Iginla (four assists).
Colorado took two of three games from Vancouver a season ago.
The Canucks look for a second straight victory in as many nights while Colorado tries to turn its woes around when the lights come up tonight at the Pepsi Center in Colorado.
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