The Canucks will get some much-welcomed help down the middle tonight against San Jose.  Speaking with reporters after practice today (Twitter link), center Elias Pettersson confirmed that he will make his return to the lineup. Pettersson, who has missed the last eight games with an upper-body injury, is currently on injured reserve.  However, Vancouver has an open roster spot available so they won’t need to make any moves to bring their top pivot back onto the roster. The initial hope was that Pettersson wouldn’t be out that long but instead, he wound up missing three weeks with the injury, one that was causing a lot of pain when shooting the puck.  Despite missing their top center, Vancouver wound up winning five of the eight games he missed, including four of their last five following the Quinn Hughes trade. In the second season of an eight-year, $92.8MM deal, Pettersson hasn’t been able to live up to the price tag in terms of his production.  While he’s on pace to put up more points than the 45 he did inRead More