Fresh off the heels of a 5-2 defeat at the hands of Macklin Celebrini and the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night, the Vancouver Canucks took to the ice on Wednesday for a late morning practice.
The Vancouver Canucks confirmed what many had been bracing for: Thatcher Demko will undergo hip surgery and is done for the season. The announcement didn’t exactly land like a shock — he’s been out since January 10 — but there’s something different about hearing it officially.
The Vancouver Canucks got on the board first Tuesday night, but the lead disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived. Macklin Celebrini had a goal and three assists, the San Jose Sharks scored three times in a 4:04 span in the opening period, and walked away with a 5–2 victory at Rogers Arena.
Oh man. The Vancouver Canucks got absolutely pummeled last night at the hands of the San Jose Sharks, dropping a 5-2 decision. It wasn’t even close either, with the Canucks getting walked early, often, and heavily.
This game started great for the Canucks! With the two sides playing at 4-on-4 within the first minute of the game (thanks Conor Garland), Elias Pettersson and Jake DeBrusk played catch in the offensive zone before feeding young Tom Willander, who wired home his third goal of the season.
There's more to hockey than scoring goals and stopping pucks. For some players, putting up points came second to their main task: angering their opponents.
In the annals of Vancouver sports history, few figures command as much respect as the man who patrolled the crease for the Canucks during the peak of the 1990s.
What Macklin Celebrini is doing in his sophomore NHL season is downright ridiculous. After a rookie campaign in which he put up 63 points in 70 games as an 18-year-old, the North Vancouver native’s 26 goals and 48 assists through 50 games this season have him on pace to finish 2025-26 with 43 goals and 122 total points.
According to a report by Iain McIntyre, later confirmed by the coach in the media scrum on Tuesday, Vancouver Canucks rookie defenseman Zeev Buium has a broken bone near his cheek after being struck by a puck on Sunday.
It’s been a hectic news day for Adam Foote and the Vancouver Canucks, and not in a fun way. Ahead of their game against the San Jose Sharks, Foote updated the assembled media on the status of Brock Boeser and Zeev Buium, neither of whom will dress against the Sharks due to injuries sustained in Sunday’s loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Vancouver Canucks are getting dealt a tough blow, regarding the health of goaltender Thatcher Demko. Demko is going to miss the rest of the season after needing surgery, per NHL.com.
It’s safe to say the Evander Kane homecoming experiment hasn’t worked out quite the way many had planned when the Vancouver Canucks traded a fourth-round pick to the Edmonton Oilers for his services over the summer.
Trade talks look to be heating up around Evander Kane this week, and now we have some insight on what the Vancouver Canucks may be looking for in return.
The San Jose Sharks visit the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. The Sharks look a lot less like a rebuilding afterthought and more like a team that’s figured out how it wants to play.
The Canucks are going through a nightmarish season both on and off the ice. The team is sitting last in the league, with star players Quinn Hughes and Kiefer Sherwood already traded and Elias Pettersson potentially on the move ahead of the trade deadline.
The Vancouver Canucks entered this season openly embracing a rebuild, and recent moves have only reinforced that direction. The franchise traded former captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild in December and moved leading scorer Kiefer Sherwood to the San Jose Sharks earlier this month.
1/26/2026: CHEK TV’s Rick Dhaliwal reported today that the Canucks have given Kane’s agent, Dan Milstein of Gold Star Hockey, permission to help facilitate a trade for his client.
The Vancouver Canucks announced today that defenseman Victor Mancini and forward Jonathan Lekkerimaki have been recalled from the team’s AHL affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks.
The Vancouver Canucks are going to be without their new young defenseman and a veteran winger for some time, as the team announced Monday afternoon that they have placed Zeev Buium and Brock Boeser on injured reserve.