The Vancouver Canucks (21-12-3) finish off their two-game season series with the Detroit Red Wings (20-9-9) tonight at Rogers Arena. The Wings defeated the Canucks 5-3 on November 30th at Joe Louis Arena. The Canucks welcome Zack Kassian back to the line-up. The big winger has missed 14 games with a finger injury suffered November 25th against New Jersey. Kassian scored a goal on the opening night of the season in Calgary, but has managed just one goal since then and has gone 12 without a goal. Hell play on a line with Brad Richardson and Shawn Matthias. Former Michigan State Spartan and East Lansing, Michigan native Ryan Miller has started five straight (3-1-1) giving up 9 goals and stopping 161/170 shots in that span (94.7%). The three goals he allowed in Thursdays 3-2 loss to Los Angeles were the most hed surrendered since a 5-1 setback to the NY Rangers on December 13th. The Canucks are 2-3 in their past five home games and will look to even that record as they play the second game of a five game homestand. They are in the midst of a portion of their schedule where they are playing nine of 11 games on home ice. Radim Vrbata has scored in back to back games and with 15 goals on the season is tied for 15th in the NHL in goal-scoring. Alex Burrows has points in four of his past five games (3+2=5). Tom Sestito cleared NHL waivers and was assigned to AHL Utica this morning. Detroit has been idle since a 3-1 New Years Eve win over New Jersey. The game was tied 1-1 going to the third period where the Wings scored the only two goals of the final frame and outshot the Devils 11-1. The Wings have won three of their last four games and are 3-1-1 in their last five. They have just four outright losses in their past 18 games (10-4-4). The Red Wings have the 3rd best power play in the NHL are 2nd in the league on the penalty kill. Detroit was the last team to score more than one PPG against the Canucks going 2 for 4 when they last met. Pavel Datsyuk had one of those PPG and had two goals in that game. He rides a five-game point streak into action tonight (1+4=5). The Wings are starting a six-game road trip here in Vancouver and between now and the end of February, Detroit plays 17 of its next 23 games away from home. Both the Canucks and Wings have opened the scoring 20 times this season. Vancouver is 15-3-2 while Detroit is 10-4-6. The Canucks have opened the scoring in five straight games and the only time they have trailed in that span is the final 1:14 against Los Angeles on Thursday. Detroit has won three straight and is 6-0-2 in its past eight games against the Canucks. Jimmy Howard gets his fourth straight start in goal for the Wings. Fernandinho Manchester City Jersey . 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David Silva Jersey . -- The Florida Gators are first yet again this season.ATLANTA -- Nathan Eovaldi had dominated the Atlanta Braves in his last seven starts against them. That was hardly the case this time as Freddie Freeman broke a 2 for 44 season slump against the Marlins with a three-run homer that sent Miami to a 6-1 loss Wednesday night. "Hes always a threat up there regardless of how hes been swinging," Eovaldi said. "Hes got the power and he just went down there and hit a good pitch. But after that I was able to establish the fastball down and away and start working to my advantage." Ervin Santana won his second straight start for the Braves, who pulled within one game of first-place Washington in the NL East. Fourth-place Miami, which snapped a three-game winning streak, is 8 1/2 games back. Freeman, an All-Star first baseman, hit his 14th homer to give the Braves a 5-0 lead in the four-run second inning. Santana (9-6) won for third time in four starts, giving up six hits and one run with three walks and 10 strikeouts in 7 1-3 innings. "We just werent able to make an adjustment on Santanas off-speed pitches," Miami manager Mike Redmond said. "He threw a lot of sliders and changeups and kept us off balance the rest of the night." Santana registered double-digit strikeouts for the second time this year and the 13th time in his 10-year career when pinch-hitter Jordany Valdespin whiffed to begin the eighth. But Santana walked Christian Yelich and gave up a single to Donovan Solano, leading manager Fredi Gonzalez to bring in Jordan Walden, who struck out Giancarlo Stanton and Casey McGehee to end the threat. Eovaldi (5-6) failed to win for his fifth straight start after allowing six hits, five runs and two walks in seven innings. He struck out two. Eovaldi began the night with a 4-0 record and a 2.21 ERA in eight starts against the NL East this year and was 2-0 with a 0.90 ERA in his last seven sttarts against Atlanta.dddddddddddd "Its great the he kept us in there, kept us from having to use a bunch of bullpen guys," Redmond said. "But I think where we are right now for him is for him to win games at the big-league level hes got to eliminate those big numbers in an inning." The Braves took a 1-0 lead in the first on Justin Uptons sacrifice fly RBI. In the second, Atlanta went up 5-0 on Tommy La Stellas RBI single and Freemans homer. Miami made it 5-1 in the third on Christian Yelichs RBI single. In the Braves eighth, Jason Heyward singled against Sam Dyson, stole second base and took third on catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchias throwing error. Heyward then broke for home on Chris Johnsons grounder to shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria, who threw to Saltalamacchia to get Heyward in a run-down. Third baseman McGehee, however, missed tagging Heyward, who was called safe by third base umpire Alan Porter as he dove back to the bag. Marlins manager Mike Redmond did not ask for the play to be reviewed, but he was ejected after arguing with Porter. "I just thought he (Heyward) was out of the baseline," Redmond said. "Maybe I was more frustrated that we didnt get the out in that situation than anything." Heyward scored when the next batter, Gerald Laird, singled to make it 6-1. Notes: Yelich went 2 for 3 and has a 17-game hitting streak on the road and his hitting .411 in his last 73 at-bats away from Miami. ... Heyward went 2 for 4 to boost his average five points to .409 in 61 at-bats against Miami since last Aug. 3. ... The Marlins dropped to 64-112 at Atlanta, including a 15-27 mark since the start of 2010. ... RHP Anthony Varvaro was placed on the paternity leave list as the Braves recalled RHP Gus Schlosser from Triple-A Gwinnett. ... Atlanta LHP Chasen Shreve pitched the ninth for Atlanta and faced five batters. ' ' '