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The Vancouver Canucks, who struggled into the Olympic break, will try to restart their season on a positive note as they host The St. Louis Blues The Canucks may have needed the break more than any team as they went into the hiatus having lost seven in a row, including a winless five-game road trip to close out the pre-Olympic schedule. Vancouver has lost seven in a row in regulation for the first time since Dec. 26-Jan. 6 during the 1998-99 campaign and is on its longest skid of any kind since going 0-5-3 from Jan. 9-31, 2009. The Canucks have 63 points on the season, one back of Phoenix and Dallas for the second wild card spot in the Western Conference. The break did allow Henrik Sedin some additional time to heal from a rib injury that has held him to just two games since Jan. 18 and caused him to sit out the Olympics. "Henrik is landing this morning," head coach John Tortorella told reporters on Wednesday morning. "We hope hell play tonight." However, forward Ryan Kesler wont play tonight due to a hand injury suffered while blocking a shot for Team USA on Feb. 15. He did not miss time during the Olympics, but had an MRI on Monday and is day-to-day. Vancouver recalled center Kellan Lain from the American Hockey League on Monday. Eddie Lack will get the start in goal. Regardless, the Canucks will look to get on track while playing their next three as the home team. That includes March 2 in the Heritage Classic versus Ottawa to be played at BC Place, which features a retractable roof. The Canucks have won two prior meetings with the Blues this season and are 5-0-2 in the last seven encounters overall. Vancouver also is 3-0-1 in its past four versus St. Louis at home. T.J. Oshie had one of the more memorable experiences during the Winter Olympics, even if the American was unable to get his country a medal. Oshie was part of a Team USA squad that failed to medal in Sochi, though the 27-year-old was briefly the talk of the Olympics after he scored four times during an eight-round shootout to help lift the U.S. to a win over Russia during group play. The forward became a media sensation and U.S. hero for his clutch performance, though he fizzled out like the rest of Team USA, which failed to beat Canada in the semifinals before falling in defeat to Finland in the bronze medal game. "It was pretty crazy after that shootout. Its all a little bitter now that we get back and have nothing to show for it, but it was a pretty cool couple of days after that seeing some of my family on some major TV shows and stuff like that," said Oshie. The Blues do return a number of players who collected medals in Sochi, including gold medal-winning defensemen Alex Pietrangelo and Jay Bouwmeester of Team Canada as well as forwards Alexander Steen and Patrik Berglund, who picked up silver with Sweden. Steen continued his solid campaign that has seen him score a career-high 28 goals through just 46 games on the season. St. Louis comes out of the break having gone 3-0-1 in its previous four while winning seven of its last 10. The Blues are even with the idle Chicago Blackhawks for the top spot in the Central standings with 84 points, three behind the Anaheim Ducks for the most in the NHL. The Blues play their next three on the road looking to maintain that success, something Oshie believes his club can do. "I think so. Weve got some guys coming off some pretty big highs, getting a gold and silver medal, and weve got some other guys like myself and (forward David) Backes that are fired up we didnt get anything," Oshie said. "I feel like after big losses like that, it inspires you to work harder. Its always easy coming back to this group of guys." Marcus Smart Jersey . Szabados joined the Southern Professional Hockey League team last week. 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Gordon Hayward Celtics Jersey . - Chelseas 1-0 win at the Etihad, spoiling Manchester Citys perfect home record continues to be the talking point of the week.PARIS - Zlatan Ibrahimovic is out for the match against Barcelona, and Paris Saint-Germain must find a way to cope without him.Ibrahimovic, the French leagues top scorer over the past two seasons, has been ruled out of Tuesdays Champions League match with a left heel injury. He missed the last two PSG games because of the injury and coach Laurent Blanc said intensive treatment up until Monday morning failed to resolve the problem.We tried this morning. But in reality Id already started preparing for the match without him, Blanc said. It wont be easy and we know it. We had some difficult games without him last season. The opponents are much more attentive when hes around.PSG has made a sluggish start to the season, drawing six of nine games so far.Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani is expected to lead the attack in his favouredcentre forwards role against a Barcelona team that has yet to concede a goal.Cavani is still short of the form which saw him score 78 goals in 104 games for Napoli before joining PSG for 64 million euros ($81.3 million) last season. The Uruguay striker has been craving a chance to play in his centre forward role, however, and now has a chance to show what he can do on the big stage.But when Ibrahimovic has been missing, PSG has won only 40 per cent of its matches.Its a very important game for us and we need him, PSG left back Maxwell said. Were still lacking in intensity and tomorrow is a good chance for us to show that were still to be reckoned with.Blanc said other players need to step up a level now that Ibrahimoviic is not around to bail them out with his spectacular goals.ddddddddddddIf we dont play well as a team tomorrow its going to be hard, Blanc said. We can compensate for his absence through our teamwork.Barcelona coach Luis Enrique is not concerned either way.It doesnt change anything for us that Zlatan isnt playing, Enrique said. Its obviously a big loss for PSG but our way of playing wont change.Ibrahimovic turns 33 next month and has been picking up injuries more often.He tore a thigh muscle last April and missed the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals against Chelsea, which PSG lost 2-0 to go out on away goals after winning the home leg 3-1.Well see how the injury goes from day to day, Blanc said. The medical staff are doing all they can and well be delighted if we get him back for the Monaco game (on Sunday).Blanc puts PSGs slow start to the season down to a lack of intensity, which his players will certainly need to show more of in order to stop a Barcelona attack led by Lionel Messi and Neymar.Tomorrow well be playing our masters, or almost, given that theyve been playing with this same philosophy of play for 30 years, Blanc said. Its an extraordinary match to take part in. If were determined and aggressive then well do well.But he thinks Barcelonas defence has frailties, despite not conceding a goal.Ive seen all of their games and their opponents had chances in every one, Blanc said. But Barcelona hurt you when theyre on top, they take advantage. Thats what were missing and we have to get that back. ' ' '