Short-handed Canucks, lowly Predators set to tangle

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The Vancouver Canucks again may be forced to survive without No. 1 goaltender Thatcher Demko when they host the Nashville Predators on Friday night.

And again the Canucks hope Kevin Lankinen is able to hold the fort.

Demko, who missed the first 26 games of the season due to a lower-body injury, left near the midway point of the second period in Thursday's road clash with the Sea