Quinn Hughes<\/a> will return for the Vancouver Canucks (6-7-0) when they visit the 5-6-2 Nashville Predators (8:30 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, SNP). The Canucks captain and No. 1 defenseman missed four games with a lower-body injury, but he joined the team for practice in Nashville on Sunday. Vancouver went 2-2-0 without him. The United States needs him healthy too; Hughes was unable to play in the 4 Nations Face-Off due to injury, a big loss for the U.S.<\/p>\nSurprise, surprise<\/p>\n
The Seattle Kraken host the Chicago Blackhawks in a matchup of two early-season surprises (10 p.m. ET; KHN, CHSN, KONG, TVAS). Seattle (5-2-4) finished 13th in the Western Conference last season; Chicago (5-4-3) was 15th. Now the Kraken hold the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the West, and the Blackhawks are one point behind.<\/p>\n
The schedule<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins at Toronto Maple Leafs (7:30 p.m. ET; TVAS, Prime, NHLN, SN-PIT)<\/p>\n
Edmonton Oilers at St. Louis Blues (8:30 p.m. ET; FDSNMW, SNW)<\/p>\n
Vancouver Canucks at Nashville Predators (8:30 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, SNP)<\/p>\n
Chicago Blackhawks at Seattle Kraken (10 p.m. ET; KHN, CHSN, KONG, TVAS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hughes to return Quinn Hughes will return for the Vancouver Canucks (6-7-0) when they visit the 5-6-2 Nashville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-270584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}