Horvat (10:24, lowest on canucks) played less than dorsett(12:51) tonight and drouin had 2:55 after the first period, not saying they should or will be loaned but I definitely can see a case being made...
Horvat has pretty consistently been low minute man for the Canucks...but as long as he's playing in that ~10 minute ballpark, it's hard to see him loaned out. The bottom-6 has been really clicking of late, and Horvat has been contributing enough.
However...with Kassian potentially coming back from injury at some point around the WJC, the bottom-6 could get a bit more crowded. Barring an injury somewhere, someone is going to have to come out of the lineup as a healthy scratch...unless that's Vey, or they hold Kassian out a bit longer, it could potentially be Horvat who sits. And if he's in danger of healthy scratch around the WJC timeframe, it would make some sense to loan him out instead.
I wouldn't be counting on Horvat for the WJC at this point...but i still wouldn't be completely ruling it out either (and Benning has suggested as much). Gonna be a situation to continue to watch...but it's more a question of whether Horvat is one of the 12 forwards playing for the Canucks night in and night out, then where his minute totals are i think.