Wasting a good goaltending performance, like the Canucks did against Nashville Wednesday night? Frustrating. Wasting the best game from Elias Pettersson in the past couple seasons? Infuriating.

Vancouver Canucks (4-5-0) vs. Edmonton Oilers (4-4-1)

Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC

7:00 pm PST; 10:00 pm EST

TV: Sportsnet Pacific, Sportsnet One

Radio: Sportsnet 650

Given the the way that road trip went, it's probably not a surprise that the Canucks came out on the short end. The number of games played over a week and a half combined with an insane amount of travel, plus a number of key injuries and it would be hard for any team to come out on top. But to their credit, the Canucks came out hard in the first, were the better team, and likely unlucky to only be up 1-0. They stretched the lead to 2-0, then flushed all that away with poor defensive play, mind bogglingly bad penalty killing and not taking enough advantage of their power play opportunities led to that loss. I would mock Arber Xhekaj for the dumb penalties he took last night, if we didn't have Evander Kane spending his evening trying to one up the Habs defenceman in the idiocy department.

Low bar I know, but that was easily Kane's worst game as a Canuck, and just another example of what a horrid misstep it was to bring him in for a completely undeserved image rehab project whilst letting Pius Suter walk away.

Do I sound angry? You're goddamn right I am. It's so infuriating to watch a guy getting paid as much as he is, getting the ice time he is, just make mistake after mistake after mistake. The Canucks got the game they needed from their leaders last night, and Kane selfishly pissed it all away with a steady stream of dumb penalties, turnovers and miscues. Even the severely snake-bitten Drew O'Connor in the second slot would be a better option. Limit Kane's ice time, thus limiting the damage he can cause, because he does absolutely nothing to make this team better.

And with the Canucks taking on the Oilers tonight, an easy bet is Kane taking multiple penalties tonight. He's already pissed off after last night (though who he should be mad at will continue to escape him), and will try to get that big hit, and do something stupid against his previous team. With the Oilers struggling to start the year, this game should be one that the Canucks could look at as a way to stop the bleeding on what is now a three game losing streak. Instead, it likely becomes one the Oilers can use to get themselves back on track.

LINEUPS

Courtesy the NHL dot com thingy, here's tonight's guess at the lineups:

Oilers projected lineup

Andrew Mangiapane -- Connor McDavid -- Jack Roslovic

Vasily Podkolzin -- Leon Draisaitl -- Matthew Savoie

Adam Henrique -- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins -- Isaac Howard

Trent Frederic -- Noah Philp -- David Tomasek

Mattias Ekholm -- Evan Bouchard

Darnell Nurse -- Jake Walman

Brett Kulak -- Ty Emberson

Calvin Pickard

Stuart Skinner

Scratched: Curtis Lazar, Troy Stecher

Injured: Zach Hyman (wrist), Mattias Janmark (undisclosed), Kasperi Kapanen (knee), Alec Regula (undisclosed)

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk -- Elias Pettersson -- Conor Garland

Evander Kane -- Lukas Reichel -- Brock Boeser

Drew O'Connor -- Aatu Raty -- Kiefer Sherwood

Arshdeep Bains -- Max Sasson -- Linus Karlsson

Quinn Hughes -- Filip Hronek

Marcus Pettersson -- Tyler Myers

Elias Nils Pettersson -- Victor Mancini

Thatcher Demko

Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Kirill Kudryavtsev, Nils Aman, P.O. Joseph

Injured: Filip Chytil (concussion protocol), Jonathan Lekkerimaki (upper body), Teddy Blueger (lower body), Nils Hoglander (lower body), Derek Forbort (undisclosed)

Another guy who had a rough night last evening? Marcus Pettersson. His arrival was supposed to provide some stability on the back end, especially on the PK. That is definitely not what we saw last night. And P.O, Joseph, who had a pretty solid game, ends up getting scratched instead.

GAME DAY CHATTER

GAME DAY BATTLE HYMN

A Halloween themed banger for ya today from a new on the scene band. INFECTED are a horror themed thrash act Southern California that are absolutely soaked in Bay Area old school, especially first four albums era Metallica. Some nods to Mercyful Fate in there, too. I mean, their vocalist's name is James, ffs. Maybe not terribly innovative, but still competently performed, catchy enough and a fun listen at this time of year.

Enjoy the game, if that's possible. Fuck fascism. Go Canucks Go!