5Fivehole0 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 http://www.nhl.com/i...id=nhl:topheads VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo was back on the ice Monday morning after a suspected groin injury forced him out of a game against the Winnipeg Jets on Dec. 22. Luongo wasn't made available to the media after his hour-long skate and isn't expected to play against the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night, but looked fine running through a series of movement and recovery drills with goaltending coach Roland Melanson. He pushed off both legs on his skates and from his knees, dropping into and lifting up out of the butterfly while stopping shots. Joacim Eriksson, called up from the American Hockey League after Luongo was hurt, was also on the ice and remained on the roster. He is expected to back up Eddie Lack, who improved to 7-2-0 with an 18-save, 2-0 shutout win against the Calgary Flames on Sunday. Vancouver did call up rookie defenseman Frank Corrado from Utica of the AHL on Monday morning after Andrew Alberts was knocked out of the game on Sunday by a high hit from Calgary forwardBrian McGrattan. Alberts joins Alexander Edler (right knee) and Ryan Stanton (left ankle) on the sidelines, though Edler, who was hurt in a game on Dec. 3, was among four players who skated Monday. Corrado, who played three regular-season games in 2012-13 and four more in the Stanley Cup Playoffs after his junior season ended, has two goals and five points in 29 AHL games this season. His season debut with the Canucks won't be easy against a Flyers team that scored 27 goals while going 5-1-1 in the past seven games. Philadelphia is not expected to make any lineup changes coming off a 4-3 shootout win against theEdmonton Oilers on Saturday night. "We got a lot of depth on our team and we're playing well lines one through four," said Wayne Simmonds, who has scored two goals in each of his past three games, becoming the first Flyer to do so since Reggie Leach in 1981. "We just have to keep it up." Here are the rest of the expected lines for the Flyers and Canucks: FLYERS Michael Raffl – Claude Giroux – Jakub Voracek Scott Hartnell – Brayden Schenn – Wayne Simmonds Matt Read – Sean Couturier – Vincent Lecavalier Steve Downie – Adam Hall – Zac Rinaldo Braydon Coburn – Kimmo Timonen Mark Streit – Nicklas Grossmann Luke Schenn – Andrej Meszaros Steve Mason Ray Emery Scratched: Jay Rosehill, Hal Gill, Chris VandeVelde Injured: Marc-Andre Bourdon (concussion), Erik Gustafsson (knee) CANUCKS Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Jannik Hansen Chris Higgins - Ryan Kesler - Mike Santorelli David Booth - Brad Richardson - Zack Kassian Tom Sestito - Zac Dalpe - Dale Weise Dan Hamhuis - Christopher Tanev Jason Garrison - Kevin Bieksa Yannick Weber – Frank Corrado Eddie Lack Joacim Eriksson Scratched: Jeremy Welsh Injured: Andrew Alberts (upper body), Roberto Luongo (lower body), Ryan Stanton (left ankle sprain), Alexander Edler (right knee), Alexandre Burrows (broken jaw), Jordan Schroeder (sprained ankle) Good to know that Luongo is back on the ice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 On paper, their forwards dominate us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amish Rake Fighter Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 On paper, I wrote the word "Pffffffffffffffffffft." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73 Percent Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 On paper, their forwards dominate us... was just thinking that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guesswhere Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 On paper, I wrote the word Pffffffffffffffffffft. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhdlois Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Lu's Christmas break in FLA is now over.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngNMGN99 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Good news! Any word on burrows and stanton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Yeah,just read that now being New Years Eve here,already. Looks like Luo has not suffered a serious recurrence of the injury that has plagued his career. Good news.I am interested to see if he can be the #1 in Sochi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Fivehole0 Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 Good news! Any word on burrows and stanton? Stanton will still be close to a month if not more if I recall, Burr should be closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngNMGN99 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Okay thanks..most important is Lu offcourse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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