Dan Hamhuis will play for Team Canada at the IIHF World Championship after Vancouver's first-round exit from the NHL playoffs.

He is expected to arrive Saturday and will increase the club's roster to 23 players, including eight defensemen. Hamhuis notched a goal and an assist in four playoff appearances with the Canucks.

Dan Hamhuis registered an assist on Friday.

Hamhuis has 10 points in 17 games this season. He should end up with about 20-25 points this season.

Dan Hamhuis was on the ice Monday and seems to have recovered from his groin injury.

Hamhuis will partner with Kevin Bieksa on the Canucks blueline and we suggest drafting the Canuck blueliner as he seems to have returned to health. He has had back-to-back plus-29 seasons and his 37 points last season certainly gives him a lot of fantasy value.

Dan Hamhuis sat out the first day of practice with a groin injury.

Hamhuis is likely day-to-day but you never know with groin injuries. It is one injury that comes up a lot during shortened and compressed seasons but of course the season has yet to start. Be a bit wary of Hamhuis and we suggest not drafting him high at this time despite his 37 points last season and back to back plus-29 ratings.

Although he is concerned about the NHL lockout that seems to be getting messier and messier, Vancouver defenseman Dan Hamhuis was focusing mostly on something positive Monday -- the induction of former Canucks star Pavel Bure into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

"He was the guy I grew up watching and he was so exciting because every time he touched the puck something could happen right from his first game he played," recalled Hamhuis. "It's good to see his recognition with the Hockey Hall of Fame, and it's well deserved." What about raising No. 10 to the Rogers Centre rafters? Because Bure wasn't warm and fuzzy - his contract controversies and eventual trade created a circus-like atmosphere - some simply don't want his number associated with the retired digits of Stan Smyl, Trevor Linden and Markus Naslund. Hamhuis has no doubt whether Bure's number should be raised. "I think it should," he said. "He's well deserving of it. . ."

Dan Hamhuis says that commissioner Gary Bettman 'seems to be on some hidden agenda' with regards to the staring contest the Players' Assocation and the owners find themselves in.

Hamhuis expressed his frustration to The Province's Ben Kuzma, thoroughly disappointed at the unwillingness from the owners to negotiate and believes, like many others, that the owners have a Dec. 1 date in mind for for when to reach an agreement. "When they offered 50-50, we figured it would be one of three things: It was pressure from other owners to put an offer out, an actual legitimate chance of negotiating or just Gary and he's got a date in his head when everything comes back together," Hamhuis said. "He seems to be on some hidden agenda and a day they [owners] can't go past. If that's what it is and we keep conceding, it only makes sense for us to hold out." Hamhuis thinks the owners have to be the next to budge.

Dan and Sarah Hamhuis have donated $100,000 to help build a new Ronald McDonald House.

It will be a 73-room building on the grounds of BC Children's Hospital. The hope is to have the building's construction completed by January 2014.

Dan Hamhuis was on the ice with skating coach Barb Aidelbaum on Tuesday.

Hamhuis was doing drills as he tries to gear up for hockey despite the lockout. Hamhuis isn't sure how often he'll continue to work with Aidelbaum if the lockout continues to drag. They've already had four sessions since he got back to Vancouver.

Dan Hamhuis practiced on the first power play unit Saturday.

Hamhuis lined up on the blueline with Alexander Edler while Daniel and Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler were up front. Christopher Higgins, David Booth and Alexander Burrows will be up front on the second unit with Sami Salo and Kevin Bieksa on the point. Hamhuis is second in TOI in the playoffs as his 24:16 minutes per game trail only Bieksa.

Dan Hamhuis is satisfied with the $2,500 fine Colorado forward Chuck Kobasew received Monday for his trip on the Canuck defenceman on Saturday.

The incident occurred at 13:20 of the second period when Kobasew tripped Hamhuis as he touched the puck on an icing call. "Fortunately, I didn't get hurt," Hamhuis said. "His stick definitely knocked my one skate out and I was able to catch it. But it's a dangerous play that we have talked about as players in the summer. In those tight races and close situations it's great to try to get an icing or negate an icing, but the risk of injury is so high, it is such a dangerous play, that as a forward you'd hope that maybe you could keep your stick as far away as you can from a D-man's feet. "Maybe with the fine they are just trying to reiterate that and make guys aware."