Tonight at 10:30 p.m. ET, the Vancouver Canucks (10-5-2, 22 points) and the San Jose Sharks (10-1-4, 24 points) faceoff for the third of four meetings tonight at the SAP Center in San Jose. The game can be live streamed here. Vancouver fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action by tuning their radios to Team Radio 1040 while San Jose fans can do the same on 98.5 FM K-FOX.
San Jose is second in the Pacific Division and trails the first-place Anaheim Ducks by three points for the division while Vancouver is fourth in the Pacific and trails the Ducks by five points. The Sharks are in third in the conference while Vancouver is sixth. San Jose has defeated Vancouver twice by 4-1 scores this season, the first time coming in San Jose Oct. 3 and the second coming a week later in Vancouver on Oct. 10.
The Sharks have only lost one game in regulation thus far this season, but they are on a three-game winless streak in which they've earned a point in each defeat but lost the three games. San Jose's latest defeat came at the hands of the worst team in the Eastern Conference, as the Buffalo Sabres topped them 5-4 in a shootout Tuesday night.
"We haven't played very well the last couple games," Logan Couture told to the San Jose Mercury News. "We were just too slow with the puck, standing over it, not moving it. At the start of the year, you watch our games and we're 'boom boom boom' out of the zone and in their zone.
Couture is second on the team with 16 points off of seven goals and nine assists while Joe Pavelski leads the team with 17 points off of six goals and 11 assists while Patrick Marleau has lit the lamp eight times and added seven assists for 15 points and Joe Thornton also has 15 points off of one goal and a team-high 14 helpers.
The Canucks enter San Jose heading into the second game of their four-game road trip after losing to the Phoenix Coyotes 3-2 in a shootout Tuesday.
"We're going to know more, but I think we know a lot already," Daniel Sedin told the National Post about his team thus far this season. "I think we're a really good team when we play the way we can and we've shown that the last seven or eight games."
Daniel's brother Henrik Sedin leads the NHL with 17 assists and paces the Canucks with 20 points while adding three goals and has a career-high 12-game point streak going. Daniel Sedin is second on the team with seven goals and 10 assists for 17 points while Ryan Kesler has 13 points off of nine tallies and four helpers.
In net, Roberto Luongo has started 14 of 17 games for the Canucks while going 8-4-2 with a 2.24 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage while Antti Niemi has manned the crease in 14 of 15 games for the Sharks, and boasts an impressive 9-1-4 record along with a 1.88 GAA and a .921 save percentage.
Two division rivals duke it out when the lights come on at the SAP center in San Jose tonight.
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