Canucks assign MacKenzie MacEachern to AHL Abbotsford

MacEachern signed a two-year, two-way deal worth $1.55 million, carrying a league minimum of $775,000 annually, with the Canucks on July 1 this past summer.

The Bloomington Hills, Michigan, native started the 2025-26 season with the Abbotsford Canucks. MacEachern played the first seven games of the season in the AHL, scoring two goals and 12 shots on goal, but finished with a minus-9 rating. He then earned a shot in Vancouver, receiving the call-up on October 29 ahead of their three-game road trip against the St. Louis Blues, Minnesota Wild, and Nashville Predators, with Conor Garland not making the trip.

The left-winger suited up in all three games of that road trip, where he grabbed an assist and a plus-2 rating in the 5-2 loss to the Wild. MacEachern remained with the team during their four-game homestand, but did not draw into the lineup. He found himself back in the lineup against the Carolina Hurricanes, where he picked up his second assist of the season, and compounded that with a goal and an assist in the next game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

With MacEachern being sent down, the Canucks now have 13 healthy forwards on the roster: Arshdeep Bains, Brock Boeser, Jake DeBrusk, Conor Garland, David Kämpf, Evander Kane, Linus Karlsson, Drew O’Connor, Elias Pettersson, Aatu Räty, Lukas Reichel, Max Sasson, and Kiefer Sherwood. Bains and Reichel have been serving as healthy scratches – Bains for five games and Reichel for the previous two games.

MacEachern will now join Jonathan Lekkerimäki, Victor Mancini, Nils Aman and Jiri Patera, who was sent down earlier in the day, as players to suit up in Vancouver who are now down to help the 3-12-1-2 Abbotsford Canucks.