Canterbury may turn to exciting youngster Marcelo Montoya after Will Hopoate was taken to hospital and Kerrod Holland suffered a shoulder injury in Thursday's loss to the Sydney Roosters.
Des Hasler's squad is about to receive a test of its depth in the outside backs after the pair went down in a bruising encounter at Allianz Stadium.
Hopoate was taken to hospital with a fractured eye socket after a nasty head collision with Zane Tetevano in the second half and is awaiting further scans to decide if he will require surgery.
Winger Holland is expected to miss several weeks after suffering an AC joint injury in his shoulder while scoring the side's opening try.
Holland's exit from the game not only forced Hasler into reshuffling his backline, his goal-kicking was also missed with stand-in kicker Moses Mbye missing three conversion attempts.
Hasler admitted the match could have turned out differently had Holland stayed on.
"He's hurt his shoulder so he'll be out for a little while," Hasler said.
"Which is a shame because he probably would have kicked a couple of those goals."
Should Hopoate be ruled out Brett Morris is likely to move to fullback, opening the door for highly-rated youngster Montoya to make his NRL debut on the wing.
Reimis Smith, who scored two tries on debut last year, and Tyrone Phillips also shape as options.
Hasler praised his side after they shrugged off a hefty injury toll to get within four of the Roosters.
"All those trademarks are embedded into this club and into this team," Hasler said.
"We just need to start getting some results."
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