We are nearing the conclusion of the preseason, and the Vancouver Canucks are on the road one final time, heading to Calgary to battle the Flames on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Canucks are putting out an NHL-heavy lineup on Wednesday as the regular season begins in one week. The team made cuts to the roster on Monday afternoon and is now down to just a few more cuts before the final roster is established.<\/p>\n
Calgary is expected to have a strong lineup on Wednesday with its veterans putting the final touches on their preseason. Their top line saw Joel Farabee and Yegor Sharangovich skating on the wings with Nazem Kadri at centre.<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition:<\/p>\n
The Flames\u2019 starting netminder, Dustin Wolf, will not be in the lineup on Wednesday as Devin Cooley and Ivan Prosvetov will split the game between the pipes.<\/p>\n
Cuts were made on Tuesday, bringing the Flames\u2019 roster down to 27 players, meaning they only have a few cuts left.<\/p>\n
Their first power play unit consisted of Kadri, Matt Coronato, Morgan Frost, Jonathan Huberdeau, and MacKenzie Weegar.<\/p>\n
Young defenceman, and ninth overall pick Zayne Parekh, is listed on the third pairing and is seeing time on the second power play. Parekh was named the CHL\u2019s defenceman of the year last year and had 35 goals in 66 games with the Saginaw Spirit (OHL).<\/p>\n
The Story: Cootes Impressing with Maturity<\/p>\n
Assistant Coach Brett McLean spoke to the media following practice on Tuesday and spoke highly of 18-year-old Braeden Cootes, who keeps earning himself another day with the Canucks in preseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been really good. What\u2019s interesting is a lot of times with younger players, the more you watch them in video and look back, sometimes those younger player habits kind of creep up, and you see maybe the gaps in the game that they need to improve on. He\u2019s been the opposite,\u201d said McLean.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time we\u2019ve looked at video, it seems to be him on there doing the right thing. So yeah, obviously the goals are nice, but it\u2019s all the other little things that he definitely plays at a maturity level that\u2019s beyond his age.\u201d<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s game is a 6:00 p.m. PT start time, and you can watch the game on Sportsnet or listen to Brendan Batchelor\u2019s radio call on Sportsnet 650 and the Sportsnet Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are nearing the conclusion of the preseason, and the Vancouver Canucks are on the road one final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-183201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}