How do you replace the irreplaceable?Thats the question West Coast coach Adam Simpson is attempting to digest as he comes to grips with the news that star ruckman Nic Naitanui will spend up to a year on the AFL sidelines.Naitanui will undergo a knee reconstruction after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during Friday nights 25-point win over Hawthorn.Scans on Saturday morning confirmed the bad news, and Naitanui will meet with surgeons over the coming days to map out the best course of action.Naitanui is expected to undergo a traditional knee reconstruction instead of LARS, meaning he will miss most - if not all - of next season.West Coast catapulted themselves back into the premiership race with impressive wins over GWS and Hawthorn over the past fortnight.But Naitanuis injury has severely dented those chances.West Coasts form dipped markedly when Naitanui was sidelined for six games earlier this season.Scott Lycett was serviceable in the lead ruck role during that period, but he failed to exert anything close to the influence that Naitanui wields.And of greater concern was the back-up ruck role.Mitch Brown, Fraser McInnes, and Jonathan Giles all struggled in the role, while the Eagles are loath to move intercept king Jeremy McGovern away from defence to pinch-hit in the ruck.Simpson has flagged a shift to a more mobile ruck set-up during Naitanuis absence, floating the possibility of using forward Jack Darling as a pinch-hitter.West Coast are unlikely to finish in the top four, even if they beat the Crows in Adelaide on Friday night.A loss to the Crows would likely see West Coast drop to seventh - consigning them to an away elimination final.Longer term, West Coast are set to explore the option of luring GWS big man Rory Lobb their way.The 206cm forward/ruckman is contracted with GWS next season, but there are reports hes homesick and keen to be traded to a WA-based club.Fremantle initially appeared to be his best fit, given their lack of ready-made key position players.But with Naitanui now set to miss most of 2017, the Eagles could make a big play for the 23-year-old.Lobb has booted 25 goals this season, including a bag of four in his sides one-point loss to West Coast in round 21. 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His second one came on a power play to start Carolinas wild comeback.The Hurricanes scored four times in a 4:40 span to erase a 5-2 deficit.Its fun to get on a little bit of a roll like that, Skinner said, but you dont want to see it too often.Ron Hainsey and Victor Rask scored 24 seconds apart before Faulk put Carolina back up with a wrist shot that clicked off Nikita Tryamkin on its way past Ryan Miller.We knew going into the third period we had to turn things around, and it started with that first power play, backup goalie Michael Leighton said. We came out flying and got a few chances -- and boom. And obviously, the rest is history.Staal added an insurance goal with 7:22 left, and Brandon Sutter made it 7-6 with 5:50 to play before Lee Stempniak scored an empty-netter with 57.6 seconds remaining.Sven Baertschi had two goals and an assist for the Canucks. Baertschi, Alexandre Burrows, Markus Granlund and Ben Hutton all scored during Vancouvers four-goal second period.The focus is on us giving up some goals when we had a chance to close out a game, Canucks coach Willie Desjardins said.Sebastian Aho scored an early goal for Carolina and Michael Leighton made 13 saves in relief of Cam Ward, who stopped 15 shots.Miller made 24 saves but was pulled after Faulks goal in favor of Jacob Markstrom, who stopped four shots.Rask had all three of his points in the third period, also assisting on goals by Skinner and Hainsey. Derek Ryan had threee assists to help the Hurricanes win their seventh straight at home and keep some semblance of pace in a rugged Metropolitan Division.dddddddddddd The top five teams in the division entered Tuesday night with winning streaks of at least four games.Talk about turning points all the time and you talk about the ones that got away, Carolina coach Bill Peters said. You talk about the ones where you somehow stole a point or the goalie got you a win, all right? ... We were willing tonight, but (figuratively), we were legless. We couldnt get going. And then, all of a sudden, the power play got us going.Carolina also snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Canucks, who lost four of five on their Eastern road swing.Theres three games on that road trip we could have won that we didnt win, Desjardins said. Youve got to find ways to win those games. You just have to.Vancouver sure looked as though it was in control through 40 minutes, scoring four goals in the second to take a three-goal lead.Burrows tied it 4:11 into the second after taking a feed from behind the net and wristing it in, and Granlund gave Vancouver its first lead by pushing in a rebound.Hutton extended the lead with 11:13 left in the period by beating Leighton with a drive from the right circle, and Baertschi then capped his second career three-point game, making it 5-2 with a goal from point-blank range with 5:41 remaining.Game notes Hainsey and Vancouver D Luca Sbisa fought late in the first period, with each receiving a 5-minute major penalty. ... The Hurricanes activated Staal (concussion) and fellow center Elias Lindholm (lower body) before the game.UP NEXTCanucks: Vancouver heads back across the continent to begin a four-game homestand Friday night against Tampa Bay.Hurricanes: Carolina continues its four-game homestand Friday night with a visit from Metropolitan Division-rival Washington. ' ' '