The Vancouver Canucks (28-18-3) shoot for consecutive wins on home ice for the first time in a month when they host the San Jose (27-18-7) Thursday night at Rogers Arena. The Canucks are 2-0 against the Sharks this season with both wins in San Jose. They enter tonight’s action two points back of the Sharks, but hold three games in hand.

The Canucks are coming off a 3-2 overtime victory over Winnipeg on Tuesday. Luca Sbisa’s first goal since November 1st was the game-winner. Ronalds Kenins scored in his second straight game, joining Radim Vrbata as the only Canucks to score in consecutive tilts since the end of November.

Vrbata set up the overtime winner and is now two points shy of 500 for his NHL career (234+264=498). Vrbata, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin and Bo Horvat all carry three-game point streaks into action tonight. Horvat has goals and six points in his past six games.

Eddie Lack picked up the win on Tuesday, but Ryan Miller is expected to return to the crease tonight. Miller is 2-0 against the Sharks this season, allowing three goals while posting a 1.50 GAA and a .956 save percentage. He faced a pair of penalty shots on December 30th (Joe Pavelski missed/Joe Thornton scored).

Chris Tanev finished Tuesday’s game but will miss his first game of the season tonight with an undisclosed injury believed to have been suffered on a heavy hit by the Jets’ Adam Lowry behind the Canucks net in the second period. Tanev joins Kevin Bieksa, Frank Corrado and Brad Richardson on the shelf. Yannick Weber will draw into the lineup; Weber scored in his last game, Friday against Buffalo.

Despite generating 13 shots, the Canucks power play was 0-6 against Winnipeg. The power play is 4-42 (9.5%) over the past 11 games. The Canucks penalty killing, which has been terrific all season, is just 9-14 (64.3%) and has given up at least one PPG in all four games since the All-Star break.

The Canucks are 3-3-2 against California opponents this season, however they have been held to fewer than 20 shots on goal in five of their eight games. They had 19 and 21 shots in their two games against the Sharks this season.

San Jose is here after a 3-1 loss in Calgary last night. John Scott’s second of the season was the lone Sharks marker. Scott hadn’t scored since his first game of the season on October 14th in Washington. Alex Stalock got the start in goal Wednesday night, so Antii Niemi is likely to get the call tonight.

The Sharks have dropped consecutive games after a falling 5-4 to Edmonton on Monday in a team-record 13-round shootout on home ice.

Patrick Marleau will play his 1,300th NHL game tonight. He becomes the 56th player in league history to reach the milestone, and the 11th to do it all with one franchise. He also becomes the youngest player to skate in 1,300 games, taking that title from Scott Stevens.

Joe Pavelski leads the Sharks with 27 goals -- and with 14 PPG shares the league-lead in that category with Alex Ovechkin.

Three of the six defensemen the Sharks used last night hail from British Columbia (Scott Hannan, Richmond; Brenden Dillon, New Westminster; Matt Irwin, Brentwood Bay).

After tonight, the Sharks play 12 of their next 16 games on home ice, then finish the season with 10 of 13 on the road including a seven-game Eastern trip in late March.

The Canucks and Sharks will finish their regular-season series with games March 3rd in Vancouver and March 7th in the Bay Area.