"You win some, you lose some and Kevin Bieksa is happy to say he's won more than he's lost.

The Canucks defenceman was back in the lineup Monday night no worse for wear, other than the shiner under his left eye he was sporting courtesy of the hard punch he took from Calgary Flame forward Tom Kostopoulos on Saturday night.

"You are naive to think you are going to go through your NHL career without taking a good shot or losing a fight," Bieksa said before the Canucks met the Dallas Stars at Rogers Arena.

"I have done it to several guys and now I got it a little bit back. You take it and move forward."

Bieksa insists he wasn't bothered in the least by the fact Kostopoulos landed that hard right hand in their first-period fight. What bugged him was that he wasn't able to return to play in the game because his eye was nearly swollen shut by the blow that also buckled Bieksa's knees.

"To tell you the truth, I wasn't worried," he said. "I like getting hit in fights. It tests you, it makes you hungrier. The only thing that was upsetting is that I couldn't continue to play the game. ... When you have impaired vision you can't go out there and play. To sit and watch was tough."

Bieksa said his three-year-old son Cole was shocked to see his eye when he woke up Sunday morning.

"My son said to me when I woke up, 'Dad, you have got one eye open and one eye shut, why are you doing that?'" he said."