Vancouver Canucks Shake Up Lineup For Reunion With Arturs Silovs & the Pittsburgh Penguins

It's been a road trip that the Vancouver Canucks won't forget for a while as the club has won their first three games against the Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Capitals, respectively and will go for a fourth straight tonight.

With the Canucks dealing with some injury issues on forward, Patrik Allvin had to call a few players up from the American Hockey League on Monday and it appears that two of them will be making their 2025-26 season debut this evening.

In a social media post before the Canucks took to the ice for their morning skate at PPG Paints Arena, Dan Murphy of Sportsnet announced that Tom Willander, Nils Aman and Joseph LaBate were all with the club, while Teddy Blueger and Brock Boeser were not in attendance.

Shortly after, the lines for tonight's game came out and due to all the injuries the Canucks are dealing with right now, Adam Foote had to switch things up in a big way at the morning skate.

Jake DeBrusk is coming back up to the top line to play alongside Elias Pettersson and Conor Garland, while the second line will see Max Sasson down the middle with Arshdeep Bains and Linus Karlsson as his wingers.

Evander Kane, Aatu Raty and Kiefer Sherwood make up tonight's third line, while Drew O'Connor, Nils Aman and Joseph LaBate round out the forward group as the fourth trio against the Penguins.

As for the defensive pairings, those will stay the same for the most part as Pierre-Olivier Joseph comes in for Victor Mancini, who was sent down on Monday morning, and he'll be playing alongside Elias Pettersson.

Puck drop for tonight's game in Pittsburgh is set for 4 p.m. PT on Sportsnet, with former Vancouver Canucks goaltender Arturs Silovs getting the start for the Penguins.