NHL Thursday: Vancouver vs. Montreal

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The Vancouver Canucks are playing great hockey and they look to keep going against a tough Montreal team.

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This is the first of two meetings this season between the two Canadian franchises. Last season, Montreal took both meetings against Vancouver despite being outshot 73-54. They can credit those wins to Carey Price, who allowed just two Canucks goals in the two games.

The Canucks are among the League's hottest teams as they begin a five-game road trip Thursday night. Vancouver has won seven of its last eight games, including the last two by a combined score of 11-1 over Northwest Division rivals Calgary and Colorado. The Canadiens, meanwhile, have two regulation wins in their last 10 games and salvaged a 1-1-1 West Coast road trip with a win in Los Angeles before falling to Columbus on Tuesday night.

Vancouver's five-game win streak to end November was halted by a 6-5 loss to the Predators on Dec. 1 that saw the return of Roberto Luongo from injury. In the two games since, they've unleashed on two of their division rivals. After scoring five unanswered goals in a 5-1 win over Calgary on Sunday, the Canucks hosted the Avalanche.

Tuesday night against Colorado, Daniel Sedin registered his first hat trick of the season and the Canucks scored six goals on just 23 shots in a 6-0 victory. Sedin had previously gone eight games without scoring. Luongo had to leave the game after sustaining an injury. He and Cory Schneider still combined for the 33-save shutout.

Following a 4-1 loss in Anaheim and a 4-3 shootout loss in San Jose, Montreal managed to salvage its California road trip with a 2-1 win in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. In their first game back in Montreal following the three-game trip, the Canadiens took on the Blue Jackets, a team they had beaten just once in the last four seasons. Tuesday's game was the first in a stretch that would see the Canadiens play five of their next six games at home before embarking on a season-long six-game road trip to end 2011.

Montreal twice managed to tie the score against Columbus with goals late in the period, including Brian Gionta's game-tying marker with 1:21 remaining in regulation. Overtime decided nothing and Rick Nash scored the deciding shootout goal as Curtis Sanford, who spent last season on the Canadiens' AHL team in Hamilton, stopped all three Montreal shooters. While the Habs secured a point in the 3-2 loss, they fired only 20 shots at Sanford, including a mere four in the second period.

The Canucks are on fire but winning at Montreal to begin a road trip will be a tall order for this team in this spot.

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