The Vancouver Canucks ’ brutal schedule to open the season is coming home to roost: they’ve called up a goalie just to give Thatcher Demko and Kevin Lankinen a little more rest. Article content

The NHL team is bringing up veteran depth goalie Jiri Patera from Abbotsford. In their announcement, the team said the recall is under “emergency conditions” meaning there’s illness or injury concern with one of the Canucks’ main goalies. Article content Article content

CHEK-TV’s Rick Dhaliwal said Thatcher Demko needed a “maintenance day.” As of yet, the team hasn’t commented on the move beyond making it official.

If it’s indeed just to give Demko a little rest, that’s pretty telling about how demanding the season has been so far since the Canucks, finally got an extra day off on Thurs

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