(My Sportsbook) - Injuries forced the Vancouver Canucks to add a goaltender during their last game. The team will hope for stability at the position in tonight's road clash with the Nashville Predators at the Sommet Center.

With Roberto Luongo sidelined due a left groin strain and not expected back until after the All-Star break, Vancouver was already skating on thin ice between the pipes. Things got worse during Tuesday's 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, as Curtis Sanford left after 20 minutes because of a strained groin of his own.

Sanford had apparently injured himself during the morning skate and had stopped 7-of-9 shots faced before exiting and being replaced by 22-year-old rookie Cory Schneider. Making just his eighth career appearance, Schneider allowed one goal on 20 shots in the loss.

However, the Canucks announced during Tuesday's game that they had acquired Jason LaBarbera from the Los Angeles Kings for a seventh-round pick in the 2009 draft. LaBarbera went 5-8-4 with a 2.83 goals against average with the Kings this year and is expected to be with the team tonight.

Daniel Sedin and Ryan Kesler tallied for the Canucks, who have lost three of their last four games and play the first of back-to-back road tests tonight. Vancouver, which will play in Atlanta on Friday, is 9-9-2 on the road this season.

LaBarbera won't be the only new face for long on the roster. The recently- signed center Mats Sundin skated with Vancouver for the first time on Tuesday and is expected to practice with the team for the first time next Monday. That should have him ready to play in the club's January 7th matchup with Edmonton.

In the meantime, the Canucks will try to extend their winning streak over the Predators to five games. Vancouver has beaten Nashville twice already this season, including a 3-1 win at the Sommet Center on December 9 that was its third straight victory there.

Nashville will be glad to return home tonight for the start of a five-game homestand, though. The Predators have lost back-to-back games, both on the road, and have lost six straight as the visiting team. The club is 10-4-1 at home, however, and has won three straight and four of its last five as the host.

In Monday's contest in Colorado, the Predators were held to just one goal or fewer for the sixth time in their last nine games and fell to the Avalanche, 5-1.

Jason Arnott scored his team-high 14th goal for Nashville, a power-play marker in the second period, but it was also his first tally since December 1, a span of 11 games between goals.

Preds goaltender Pekka Rinne allowed five goals on 21 shots in defeat, Nashville's seventh in their last 10 games overall.