The Vancouver Canucks (4-3) open a three-game homestand tonight against the Washington Capitals (4-1-2) at Rogers Arena. The Canucks return to action after a 7-3 loss in Colorado on Friday night. Henrik Sedin, Alex Burrows and Daniel Sedin had the Canucksgoals and Eddie Lack stopped 41 of the 48 shots he faced. TSN1040 has the Canucks and Capitals tonight beginning at 6:30pm pt. Ryan Miller is expected to get the start in goal after 31-save effort in St. Louis on Thursday. Otherwise it appears the Canucks will go with the same line-up they used in Denver. Ryan Stanton returned to skate with the group for the first time since getting injured in Edmonton on October 17th. Ten different Canucks have accounted for the teams last 11 goals dating back to an Alex Edler goal against Tampa Bay last Saturday (only Jannik Hansen has two in that span). The team has scored in the first minute of each of its past two games (Chris Higgins 41 seconds into Thursdays game in St. Louis and Henrik Sedin 10 seconds after the opening face-off in Denver). Henrik Sedin has been on the ice for 12 of the 22 goals the Canucks have scored this season. At the other end of the ice, Kevin Bieksa has been on for 12 of the 24 goals the team has surrendered. The Canucks 4-3 record after 7 games is the same as it was last season as is the goal differential at this stage (minus-2). On the farm, Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves for his third straight shutout as AHL Utica blanked the Toronto Marlies 4-0 last night. Markstrom is 4-0 on the season with a 0.25 GAA and a 99.1 save percentage giving up just one goal in his season debut. He has stopped 108 of 109 shots. He is currently riding a 232:13 shutout string which is 36:04 shy of the longest run in AHL history. 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Jeremy Ingram scored 28 for North Carolina Central (28-6), which came in on a 20-game win streak and won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Matched up against a tournament newcomer, Iowa State players said they wouldnt look past the Eagles. As this years tournament has shown, hubris breeds upsets and the Cyclones werent taking any chances, especially after a first half in which the Eagles took an early lead and stayed within five at halftime. The Cyclones were wary of a team that dominated its league, even a lightly-regarded like the MEAC. The Eagles also had notched an upset win over North Carolina State and nearly took down Wichita State, the nations only undefeated team and the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional. Earlier in the day, North Carolina Central saw their neighbours from Durham, perennial power Duke, get knocked off by Mercer in one of the tournaments biggest upsets so far and ddreamed of making some magic of their own in their tournament debut.dddddddddddd Iowa State tried to show some muscle at the start when the Cyclones opened the scoring with an alley-oop reverse dunk by Melvin Ejim. If it was a play meant to scare the Eagles, it didnt work. North Carolina Central opened the game with a flurry of 3-pointers and put bodies on the Cyclones on every rebound. Karamo Jawara scored 10 points in the first half and tied it 30-30 on a soft jumper. Iowa State appeared to get the game under control with an 8-0 run punctuated by Ejims fast break dunk. The Eagles rallied with a 9-2 run of their own before Iowa State took a 45-39 lead into halftime. North Carolina Central simply couldnt sustain it. Over 40 minutes, the Cyclones were just too fast, too strong and too balanced. There were just too many Cyclones doing too many things. Ejim, the Big 12 player of the year, scored 17 points. DeAndre Kane, the MVP of the Big 12 tournament, scored 14 with seven rebounds and five assists. Dustin Hogue and Monte Morris each scored 15. In one sequence, Hogue ripped a rebound out of the arms of an Eagles player, passed to Monte Morris, who whipped the ball to Ejim for a another dunk. And then there was Niang, whose 3-pointers pushed Iowa States lead to 11 early in the second half. Niang made four of Iowa States nine 3-pointers. North Carolina Central coach LeVelle Moton should have at least had a chance to enjoy some of his big week. But two days after the NCAA tournament bracket was announced, Bracketts 1-year-old son was hospitalized with burns after a coffee spill accident and his family didnt make the trip with him to San Antonio. ' ' '