from Ben Kuzma of The Vancouver Province,

They can’t beat them on the scoreboard, so why not just beat them up?

The Broad Street Bullies approach to winning has gone the way of wooden sticks, but the manner in which the Vancouver Canucks stood up for each other Monday in Los Angeles was still the buzz here as they prepared to face the dominant Anaheim Ducks.

Nobody will remember a 1-0 loss to the Kings — or that the Canucks are 1-6-3 against the California clubs and have scored just 15 goals in that stretch — as much as they’ll recall Tom Sestito coming to Henrik Sedin’s defence and challenging an unwilling Jordan Nolan. They’ll remember Ryan Kesler exacting revenge on Dustin Brown for an injury to Roberto Luongo and Kevin Bieksa fighting Matt Greene.

“We didn’t get the win, but we can come out of that game with our heads up high knowing we battled for one another,” said Luongo, who practised Tuesday and is close to returning from an ankle sprain suffered Jan. 4 in the Brown crease collision. “It was a statement for our team that we won’t get pushed around and I don’t think it was about one particular person — more about standing up for each other as a team.”

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