Top 5 goals of the 2025-26 Canucks season

Elias Pettersson managed just 15 goals in the 74 games he played this season. However, there wasn’t a prettier one in the bunch, and there wasn’t a more artistic goal scored by anybody in Canucks colours this season. Supporting Evander Kane on the forecheck, Pettersson knocks the puck out of mid-air around Sharks forward Tyler Toffoli, completes a 360 spin to avoid contact and create space for himself, then corrals the puck and takes it to the net. As he’s hacked by Timothy Lilljegren and bumped by Macklin Celebrini, a sprawling Pettersson draws Yaroslav Askarov out of position and banks the puck off the Sharks’ netminder and into the net for a spectacular goal. 

2) Conor Garland stickhandles in a phone booth

In one of the most entertaining Canucks games of the season, Conor Garland dazzled in tight to score an electrifying goal in Anaheim. Midway through the second period, Garland tried to spring Brock Boeser on a breakaway. Boeser stopped up, spotted Garland as the trailer on the play and fed him the puck in the slot. From there, Garland slipped the check of Troy Terry, undressed Ducks defender Drew Helleson and slid a backhand past netminder Petr Mrazek to give the Canucks a 3-1 lead in a game they went on to win 5-4.

3) Kiefer Sherwood splits the D against Edmonton

In the final minute of the second period in a late October game against the Oilers, Kiefer Sherwood absolutely dazzled with a solo dash. After collecting a touch pass from Brock Boeser in full flight, Sherwood attacked the Edmonton line with speed. With Jake Wallman scrambling to get back into position, Sherwood dangled Mattias Ekholm and then snapped a shot stick-side past Calvin Pickard. It was Sherwood’s fifth goal of the season and his first of two on the night – he also scored the OT winner. And he also had a goal overturned on an offside challenge. 

4) Linus Karlsson, trick-shot artist

Linus Karlsson opened his goal-scoring campaign in style going between his legs at the side of the net to get the Canucks on the board in an early November game against Colorado. After a Canucks power play, the team continued to apply pressure. Quinn Hughes danced in the Avs zone, left the puck for Evander Kane who slid it across to Filip Hronek at the left point. Hronek’s quick shot was knocked down in front by defencemen Devon Toews. The puck fell to the right-handed Karlsson parked off the left goal post. In a scramble, his first attempt on the backhand was thwarted, but he stuck with it and on his second attempt, pulled the puck and his stick between his legs and was able to pop it home past a sprawling Mackenzie Blackwood. 

5) Fil provides a thrill

The accompanying video doesn’t show the way the sequence started. Nor does it offer the context that has this goal included on this list. It only shows Jake DeBrusk setting up Filip Hronek for a tap-in at the net front off the rush. What you need to know is that this goal turned out to be the winner that snapped the team’s 11-game winless streak in January. It also came in a game that saw the Capitals build an early 2-0 lead. Absolutely nothing was going the Canucks way at that point. And then something changed. The Canucks roared back with three straight goals before DeBrusk and Hronek combined on an absolutely perfectly executed two-on-one while the teams skated four aside.

As the Caps pushed for the equalizer, the puck slid to Tom Willander deep in his own zone. He quickly moved it ahead to Hronek who broke out with DeBrusk. With John Carlson defending and Aleksei Protas hustling back, DeBrusk drew Carlsson to him, then crisply sent the puck to Hronek, who redirected past Logan Thompson on the stick side. It was a pretty goal — the kind the team didn’t score enough of off the rush — and it was also the marker that mercifully ended 11 straight without a victory.

Honourable mentions

Brock Boeser’s overtime winner with two seconds left in Nashville

Zeev Buium’s give and go goal with Nils Höglander in the team’s home finale against Los Angeles last week

Let us know in the comments if there was a goal from this past season that stood out for you.