Losing can be addicting. Do the Nucks need an intervention?

CANUCKS (2-5-0) at ISLANDERS (2-3-0)

7:45 p.m. ET; MSGSN, SNP

We find ourselves at the point in the season that might require that combo of patience and persistence that we lost over the weekend. Thursday warned us there'd be games - many, many games of losses and losing. Suggested how to observe them without incurring serious long-term synaptic failures.

There! Feel better? No?

Well... it's a work day anyhow. No point sitting around watching a hockey game where the outcome is not important.

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk -- Elias Pettersson -- Jonathan Lekkerimaki

Paul Cotter -- Marco Rossi -- Linus Karlsson

Liam Ohgren -- Drew O'Connor -- Brock Boeser

Arshdeep Bains -- Max Sasson -- Brendan Gallagher

Zeev Buium -- Filip Hronek

Jamie Oleksiak -- Tom Willander

Elias Pettersson -- Luke Schenn

Leevi Merilainen

Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Victor Mancini, Guillaume Brisebois, Aatu Raty

Injured: Filip Chytil (shoulder), Thatcher Demko (hip)

Islanders projected lineup

Emil Heineman -- Bo Horvat -- Kyle Palmieri

Brayden Schenn -- Cal Ritchie -- Victor Eklund

Ondrej Palat -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Anthony Duclair

Simon Holmstrom -- Casey Cizikas -- Matias Maccelli

Logan Stanley -- Matthew Schaefer

Adam Pelech -- Ryan Pulock

Tony DeAngelo --Scott Mayfield

Ilya Sorokin

Semyon Varlamov

Scratched: Kyle MacLean, Matt Kessel

Injured: Mathew Barzal (knee), Alexander Romanov (torn right ACL)

Status report

Chytil, a forward, is skating but is not ready to make his season debut. … The Islanders held an optional morning skate.

GAME DAY CHATTER

A streak? That was fun while it lasted.

Much shuffling required.

GAME DAY BATTLE HYMN

Let's take a trip back to a time when expectations were lower and improvisations under difficult road trip conditions could be fun!

Go Canucks Go.