Keep On ROGing in the Rebuild World

GOLDEN KNIGHTS (1-1-0) at CANUCKS (2-1-0)

Rogers Place, Vancouver, BC

9 p.m. ET; SNP, SCRIPPS

At this point in the long, long season, did you expect the Canucks to be ranked 3rd in the division, while the Scorched Knights to be a lowly 6th place? Of course you did.

Is this game winnable for the Nucks? Maybe. But win or lose, we've already witnessed the most amazing turnaround from bad vibes hockey to really, really good vibes hockey. We're here for the new good vibes.

Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev -- Jack Eichel -- Mark Stone

Brett Howden -- William Karlsson -- Mitch Marner

Trevor Connelly -- Tomas Hertl -- Victor Olofsson

Marc Gatcomb -- Nic Dowd -- Braeden Bowman

Shea Theodore -- Brayden McNabb

Parker Wotherspoon -- Rasmus Andersson

Jeremy Lauzon -- Noah Hanifin

Adin Hill

Carter Hart

Scratched: Dylan Coghlan, Raphael Lavoie

Injured: None

Canucks projected lineup

Marco Rossi -- Elias Pettersson -- Linus Karlsson

Liam Ohgren -- Paul Cotter -- Brock Boeser

Arshdeep Bains -- Max Sasson -- Jonathan Lekkerimaki

Drew O'Connor -- Aatu Raty -- Brendan Gallagher

Zeev Buium -- Filip Hronek

Jamie Oleksiak -- Tom Willander

Elias Nils Pettersson -- Luke Schenn

Kevin Lankinen

Leevi Merilainen

Scratched: Guillaume Brisebois, Victor Mancini

Injured: Jake DeBrusk (illness), Thatcher Demko (hip), Filip Chytil (shoulder)

Status report

Hill will make his first start this season in what is expected to be the lone change to the Golden Knights lineup from a 4-3 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. … The Canucks did not hold a morning skate after a 4-1 win against the Calgary Flames on Saturday. DeBrusk is questionable after missing his first game of the season, and Lankinen is expected to start after Merilainen made 23 saves in his first start with Vancouver.

Hoping Lanky has a better Finnish...

GAME DAY CHATTER

Petey keeps hitting the right notes. Hard and often.

Good start. Better finish.

GAME DAY BATTLE HYMN

80s Retro ROG Sunday? Why not. Nucks have delivered more 80s firewagon hockey in 3 games than 50 games from last season. Maniacs.

Go Canucks Go.