Tonight at 6:00 p.m. ET, the Vancouver Canucks (27-23-9) and Toronto Maple Leafs (31-22-6) faceoff for the second and final time this season live from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The game can be live streamed here. Vancouver fans can hear all of the action on Team 1040 while Toronto fans can do the same on TSN 1050.
Vancouver has lost six in a row while Toronto enters play having won four out of their last five games. The first time these two teams met, the Canucks shutout the Maple Leafs 4-0 in Vancouver on Nov. 2.
The Maple Leafs are coming off of a 4-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday and will now look ahead to today's game.
"Huge win," defenseman Tim Gleason told the Toronto Sun. "We had a big game, a four-point game. We just have to get that game on Saturday because no one cares about [this one] now."
The Canucks have struggled as of late but will be looking to put the recent skid behind them before the Olympic break.
"It's a challenge, you know," Luongo said via the Vancouver Sun. "But the only way we're going to get out of this is to keep our head high and work. If we feel sorry for ourselves, it's just going to get worse."
Luongo will likely start and is 19-15-6 with a 2.36 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage. He'll likely be opposed by Jonathan Bernier, who is 21-16-5 with a 2.59 GAA and a .926 save percentage.
Offensively, Toronto has been led by Phil Kessel (30-33-63), James van Riemsdyk (23-23-46) and Nazem Kadri (15-26-41) while Vancouver has been paced by Daniel Sedin (13-27-40), Henrik Sedin (9-31-40) and Ryan Kesler (19-18-37). Henrik Sedin will be sidelined with a rib injury.
The Canucks look to end their six-game losing streak while the Maple Leafs try to keep on winning before the Olympic break when the puck drops tonight in Toronto.
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