Bruins Begin Road Trip At Fading Canucks

10 p.m. ET
Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC
TV: NESN
Radio: 98.5 The Sports Hub

Season Series/Schedule
Date      Game                                    GWG
10/19     VAN 3 @ BOS 6                 David Krejci
2/17       BOS @ VAN       

Team Leaders
Bruins                                                                   Canucks
Brad Marchand, 54          Points                   Brock Boeser, 49
Patrice Bergeron, 27       Goals                    Brock Boeser, 27
Brad Marchand. 33          Assists                  Henrik Sedin, 36

The Bruins begin their five-game road trip and three-game jaunt through western Canada at the Vancouver Canucks tonight.

The Bruins beat up on the Canucks 6-3 back in October.  Anders Bjork had a pair of goals in the win, but he did not make the trip out west due to injury.

Only the Arizona Coyotes have less points than the Canucks in the Western Conference.  They enter tonight's game with just one win in their last five games and a 3-7-0 record over their last 10.

Thomas Vanek, who could be traded within the next few days, has enjoyed playing against the Bruins.  In 62 career games versus Boston, he has 33 goals and 67 points, including a goal in the first meeting this season. 

The Bruins are 79-29-15-1 all-time versus the Canucks and 31-19-8-0 in Vancouver, which doesn't include that huge win back in June of 2011.  They have won the last three games of this series and each of their last two trips to Vancouver.

FORWARDS
Brad Marchand - Patrice Bergeron - David Pastrnak
Jake DeBrusk - David Krejci - Ryan Spooner
Danton Heinen - Riley Nash - David Backes
Tim Schaller - Sean Kuraly - Noel Acciari

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Zdeno Chara - Charlie McAvoy
Torey Krug - Brandon Carlo
Matt Grzelcyk - Adam McQuaid

GOALTENDER
Tuukka Rask (23-9-4, 2.11 GAA, .924 save %, 2 SO)

INJURY REPORT
LW-Anders Bjork (upper-body) out, C-Frank Vatrano (lower-body) out, D-Kevan Miller (upper-body) out

FORWARDS
Nikolay Goldobin - Bo Horvat - Brock Boeser
Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Thomas Vanek
Darren Archibald - Brandon Sutter - Loui Eriksson
Reid Boucher - Nic Dowd - Jake Virtanen

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Alexander Edler - Erik Gudbranson
Michael Del Zotto - Troy Stecher
Ben Hutton - Derrick Pouliot

GOALTENDER
Jacob Markstrom (16-20-5, 2.78 GAA, .908 save %, 2 SO)

INJURY REPORT
LW-Sam Gagner (ankle) out, LW-Markus Granlund (ankle) out, LW-Brendan Gaunce (lower-body) out, D-Chris Tanev (leg) out