\nKane-EP40-Garland
\nDeBrusk-Reichel-O\u2019Connor
\nBoeser-Raty-Sherwood
\nBains-Sasson-Karlsson <\/p>\n
Hughes-Hronek
\nMP29-Myers
\nDPetey-Willander
\nJoseph-MacEachern<\/p>\n
Adam Foote moved Drew O\u2019Connor to right wing on a line with Lukas Reichel and Jake DeBrusk, while Brock Boeser found himself skating on the left side with Aatu R\u00e4ty and Kiefer Sherwood. Coming off his 10-shot night in Wednesday\u2019s 5-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>, Evander Kane was skating alongside Elias Pettersson and Conor Garland. The Calder Cup line of Arshdeep Bains \u2013 Max Sasson \u2013 Linus Karlsson remained intact. Extra forward Mackenzie MacEachern served as a defenceman at practice and was paired with P-O Joseph.\u00a0With Demko taking his maintenance day, the Canucks turned to practice goalie and local mortgage broker Alex Kotai to tend one of the nets while Kevin Lankinen had the other. Jiri Patera, recalled on Friday morning<\/a>, was in transit from Colorado, where Abbotsford is set to play a weekend series. The Canucks felt they needed to recall Patera today in the event that Demko is unable to play this weekend. They couldn\u2019t wait until Saturday to put in a call to the farm, since the minor league team is on the road this weekend.<\/p>\n There was positive news on the injury front Friday as both Teddy Blueger and Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki took to the ice after the main group. They both skated in non-contact jerseys and were put through their paces by skills coach Jason Krog. Adam Foote did not have timelines for either player\u2019s return to a full practice. However, Foote did say that Nils H\u00f6glander, injured in preseason, was ahead of schedule. But Foote made it clear that H\u00f6glander is still weeks away from joining the team.<\/p>\n What we heard<\/p>\n Adam Foote on trying to replicate the process from a 45-shot effort against Chicago, but find a way to convert a few more chances: \u201cWe\u2019re right there. They know what they did the first two periods of last game. If you get 21 scoring chances in two periods, you\u2019re doing the right things. And they did. And those are going to start going in.\u201d<\/p>\n Kiefer Sherwood on busy weekend with visits from the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday and the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday: \u201cCome ready to play. Two big games. We\u2019ve got to get back to over .500 and use the crowd to our advantage. Two good teams right now and we\u2019ve just got to focus on us and executing our systems.\u201d<\/p>\n