The Vancouver Canucks have suffered through some tough times lately, and it doesn't appear things will get any easier.

Vancouver is coming off a 4-0 loss in Edmonton on Monday — a game in which defenceman Sami Salo, and forwards Taylor Pyatt and Rick Rypien were hobbled by injuries.

Taylor Pyatt's nine goals this season rank second on the Canucks.
(Kyle Ericson/Associated Press)

The Canucks will try to make do without the trio when they host the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.

"We're a good team and a good team has to find ways to win even when you're short personnel," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "Everybody goes through tough situations like this and we're no different than anybody else."

Salo, 32, will be sidelined seven to 10 days with a nerve problem. The nine-year NHL veteran is experiencing numbness, pain and weakness in his arm and shoulder, the result of a hit early in the Edmonton game.

Salo, who often anchors Vancouver's power play, has four goals and 10 assists for 14 points in 24 games this season.

Pyatt, 25, was slammed into the boards with eight seconds remaining in the first period and sustained a second-degree tear in his shoulder joint that will shelve him for two to four weeks.

The Thunder Bay, Ont., native has scored nine goals this season and trails only captain Markus Naslund (12) in that category. Pyatt also has three assists for 12 points through 28 games.

Rypien, 22, will miss six to eight weeks because of a partially torn groin muscle. The rookie forward from Coleman, Alta., was playing in just his second game after being recalled Dec. 1 from the club's American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose.

The Canucks' injury woes just serve to compound their recent goal-scoring problems.

Vancouver has scored more than two goals only twice in its last 16 games and its 2.07 goals-per-game average ranks last in the NHL.

"With our goal scoring that hasn't been going and you lose a couple key players, that's not good. But good teams find a way to get things done under the turmoil, and we're going to have to do that, so we've got to keep it simple," defenceman Willie Mitchell said.

The Canucks visit the Calgary Flames on Saturday (CBC, 10 p.m. ET).

With files from Associated Press