VANCOUVER, British Columbia — This is not much of a homecoming for Tanner Glass, the Rangers winger who played with the Canucks from 2009 through 2011 and will have a number of friends and relatives in attendance for Saturday's match.
The fourth-line winger was told by coach Alain Vigneault following Friday's practice he will be a healthy scratch for the first time this year in order to accommodate Chris Kreider's return to the lineup, while J.T. Miller remains in for his fifth straight game since his recall from the AHL Wolf Pack.
"It's tough, maybe tougher to sit out this one because of where it is, but I don't expect a coach to make lineup decisions based on that," Glass told The Post. "AV told me that a player shouldn't lose a spot because of being sick, but that the other guys who got the opportunity when I was out are playing well."
Glass had missed four games with the mumps before returning Monday against the Penguins, when Kreider was out with neck spasms. Kreider's return for this one will send Glass into street clothes.
"I don't really feel like I've found my game or my rhythm," said Glass, who has been effective on the penalty kill but has only one assist and is minus-nine with dreadful possession numbers in 22 games (10:09 per). "When I get back in, I'm looking to contribute more than I have."
Glass, who played his two seasons as a Canuck for Vigneault, is in the first season of the three-year contract worth $1.45 million per he signed as a free agent out of Pittsburgh on July 1.
Derek Dorsett, the fourth-line agitator whom the Rangers sent to the Canucks in June in exchange for a third-round draft choice, was excused from practice on Friday for "a personal day," per the club. He is questionable for Saturday's match.
"I loved Dorse," Vigneault said. "I thought he was a real strong energy player who understood the game and competed real hard.
"He would have liked to have had a bigger role, but he had a very important role and was very effective at it."
Indeed, Dorsett combined with Dominic Moore and Brian Boyle to form an outstanding fourth line that was critical to the Blueshirts' success through the second half of the season and the playoffs. Yet with one year at $1.633 million remaining on his contract, he was traded — while Glass was signed essentially to fill that role.
"I hope [Dorsett] does really well," Vigneault said. "Except against our team."
Vigneault, meanwhile, issued an unsolicited and bizarre proclamation regarding Kevin Klein, who has six of the seven goals scored by Rangers defensemen.
"[He] knows that he can score five more goals five-on-five and I'm still not going to use him on the power play," said the coach, sounding strangely Tortorellish .
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