Vancouver Canucks Hockey Stuff

Just announced, Sami Salo will not play tonight against the St Louis Blues in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Quarterfinals.  He has a “lower body injury”.

Also for tonight, Mats Sundin will not play tonight either, and it’s also reported that Paul Kariya will not play again for the Blues either.  The Canucks are up 3-0 in games this series, and only twice in history has a team come back and won a series after being down 3-0.  Hopefully the Canucks can come up with a big win tonight and sweep the Blues.

Game time is 5pm, in St Louis, broadcast on CBC.  You can listen to the pre-game show and the game live online via streaming online radio at The Team1040.ca.  Go Canucks Go!

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Luongo feels soreness in Groin again.

Roberto luongo will not join the Vancouver Canucks on their road game against the Edmonton Oilers on saturday night.  Roberto Luongo left todays practice after only 20 minutes, and is experiencing soreness.  He was expected to make the trip to Edmonton and possibly play in the game.

Curtis Sanford is expected to start in net for the Canucks, while Luongo is still on a week to week injury.  Luongo is 11-5-2 this season, with a 2.17 goals against average and .926 save percentage, and has five shutouts.

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Luongo leaves with lower body injury

Early in the Canucks vs penguins game this morning, Luongo appears to have a lower body injury and left the ice without putting any weight on his left leg.  Could be a groin injury by the looks of it.  Curtis Sanford has entered the net in replacement of Luongo.  Luongo’s injury isn’t yet known but we will keep you updated.

update:

Dan Murphy announced during the first period that Luongo will not return to the game, and is out with a lower body injury.  It’s a good thing Curtis Sanford had that big confidence-boosting win two nights ago against Minnesota, as he may be playing in net for a few games to come.  The Canucks are up 1-0 after one period of play, with a goal by Pavol Demitra.

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Sami Salo out with the Flu

Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis announced this morning that Sami Salo will not play tonight in the game against the Minnesota Wild, however they have called up Nolan Baumgartner from the Manitoba Moose in the AHL to play in the absence of Salo.  The game is tonight at 5pm in Minnesota.

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Bieksa out for 2 – 3 weeks.

Kevin Bieksa will be out of the line up because of an injury, it appears he suffered in the November 4th game against the Nashville Predators, in which he blocked a shot that hit him in the skate.  He has bone chips it is being reported, so he will be out of the line up for the next two to three weeks.  Also today the Canucks reported that Sami Salo will be out day to day because of a sore elbow, in which he injured during the last game against the Colorado Avalanche, while diving to try and block a shot that turned out to be Roberto Luongo’s shut-put ending goal against.

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Pettinger and Wellwood going through waivers as back-up

The Vancouver Canucks have placed Kyle Wellwood and Matt Pettinger on re-call waivers to hopefully bring them back up to the big club in time for tuesday morning’s skate before tuesday nights game against the Columbus Blue Jackets.  The forwards are being recalled after several injuries in the Canucks 4-2 loss last nightto the Chicago Blackhawks, where Rick Rypien is out due to a virus, Sami Salo is out with a groin injury, Pavol Demitra is out with an upper body injury, and Darcy Hordichuk is out with a knee injury. 

Any club can take either Wellwood or Pettinger off waivers, and only have to pay them half their season’s salary to play on their club, while the Canucks would then have to pay the other half of their salary’s.  Gillis and co aren’t afraid of paying as they have plenty of room under the salary cap, however they need healthy players and they need them now. 

Be sure to take in the Canucks final game of the six game road trip tomorrow night at 4pm against the Columbus Blure Jackets.

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