Another game where they came out strong, and not being able to capitalize on early chances led to their downfall. And now it's onto a similar opponent as they faced Tuesday as the move to Detroit to battle the Red Wings.

Vancouver Canucks (16-21-5) vs. Detroit Red Wings (25-15-4)

Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI

4:00 pm PST; 7:00 pm EST

TV: Sportsnet Pacific

Radio: Sportsnet 650

The Magical Misery Tour rumbles into Detroit, as the Canucks look to rebound from a 5-3 loss to their expansion cousins in Buffalo on Tuesday evening. And while the Sabres are battling hard to make the playoffs for the first time in forever, the Wings are a point out of first place in the Atlantic Division and very much looking like they'll stay in the mix heading towards the spring. And if you're a Canucks fan, that power play of Detroit's is going to be a major issue tonight. If the Canucks want any chance of pulling out a win, they'll need to stay out of the box as well as kill off any power plays for one of the NHL's best with the man advantage.

While the Canucks didn't play horrible, there were definitely some passengers in that game, and I really think a benching would do a world of good to correct garbage like this:

Unbelievable. Credit where it's due, he's been better of late, but that's just lazy, selfish behaviour.

This will be the second meeting against the Wings this season, the first one an absolutely frustrating 4-0 loss that saw the Canucks outshoot and outplay the Wings, only to get utterly goalie'd by John Gibson in that loss. The Wings are red hot of late, with an 8-3-1 record in their last 12 games, and are especially solid in close games at home this season, sporting an 8-0-1 mark in one goal games.

LINEUPS

From the folks at the nhl dot com, here's what we are likely gonna see this afternoon...

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk -- Elias Pettersson -- Linus Karlsson

Evander Kane -- Max Sasson -- Brock Boeser

Drew O'Connor -- David Kampf -- Kiefer Sherwood

Liam Ohgren -- Aatu Raty -- Nils Hoglander

Marcus Pettersson -- Tom Willander

Zeev Buium -- Filip Hronek

Elias Pettersson -- Tyler Myers

Thatcher Demko

Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Pierre-Olivier Joseph, Arshdeep Bains

Injured: Conor Garland (upper body), Marco Rossi (lower body), Filip Chytil (concussion protocol), Teddy Blueger (lower body), Derek Forbort (undisclosed)

Red Wings projected lineup

Emmitt Finnie -- Dylan Larkin -- Marco Kasper

Alex DeBrincat -- Andrew Copp -- Patrick Kane

James van Riemsdyk -- J.T. Compher -- Lucas Raymond

John Leonard -- Michael Rasmussen -- Mason Appleton

Simon Edvinsson -- Moritz Seider

Ben Chiarot -- Axel Sandin-Pellikka

Albert Johansson -- Jacob Bernard-Docker

John Gibson

Cam Talbot

Scratched: Travis Hamonic, Elmer Soderblom

Injured: None

No changes apart from swapping out Joseph and Pettersson on the back end again, but honestly Kane should be parked for that incident, and it's frustrating he won't be.

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