The Vancouver Canucks (5-2-4) open a brief two-game all-Pennsylvania homestand when they host the Philadelphia Flyers (4-4-2) tonight at Rogers Arena. With Pittsburgh here on Wednesday, the Canucks are starting into a stretch of eight straight games against eastern opponents.

After his first night off this season on Friday in Arizona, Ryan Miller is expected to get back in net for the Canucks. Miller has blanked the Flyers the last two times he faced them – once last season with the Canucks and once the season before that as a member of the St. Louis Blues.

Dan Hamhuis will be back in the line-up after missing the last three games with a lower-body injury. However, as Hamhuis returns, Luca Sbisa is out indefinitely. He was spotted at the rink this morning wearing a walking boot.

Other line-up notes include Sven Baertschi being inserted on a line with Brandon Sutter and Jake Virtanen while Brendan Gaunce comes out of the line-up despite scoring his first NHL goal on Friday in Glendale.

Alex Burrows has scored in back to back games and tonight will take part in his 700th NHL contest. Burrows also played 134 in the ECHL and 107 more in AHL before making his NHL debut in January 2006. After a slow start to the season, Radim Vrbata has 3+2=5 in his past five games.

Canucks have scored a power play goal in five straight games and are 6/15 (40%) with the man-advantage during that run.

Jared McCann will play his 10th game of his rookie season. He scored his fifth goal on Friday in Glendale. It took other prominent Canucks a while longer to score five NHL goals: Daniel Sedin 15 games, Pavel Bure (16) and Trevor Linden (21).

The Flyers are here after a 3-1 loss in Buffalo on Friday night. They are winless in three (0-2-1). Their special teams are not so special these days with their power play going 0/10 in the past four games and 1 for its last 16. The penalty kill, meanwhile, has surrendered a goal in five straight games and is 13/19 (68.4%) in that span.

The Flyers have scored just 20 goals in their first 10 games. Jakub Voracek, who had 22=59=81 last season, has 0+3 this season despite sitting T-6 in the NHL in shots on goal with 44. Voracek (22), Wayne Simmonds (a team-high 28) and Michael Raffl (21) combined for 71 goals last season. That trio has one so far this season. Simmonds scored it four games ago.

Defenseman Mark Streit leads the team in scoring with 3+4=7 while Brayden Schenn is Philadelphia’s top goal-scorer with four on the season. His older brother – Flyers blueliner Luke Schenn -- is celebrating his 26th birthday today.

After watching from the bench on Friday against the Sabres, Steve Mason gets the call in goal for the Flyers tonight.