{"id":25758,"date":"2025-07-27T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25758\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:34:07","slug":"will-the-canucks-be-canadas-worst-nhl-team-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25758\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Canucks be Canada\u2019s worst NHL team in 2025-26?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a disappointing 2024-25 season for the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, who finished with a 38-30-14 record and 90 points, falling six points shy of the second Wild Card spot in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n

Beyond the production of Quinn Hughes, the 25-year-old defender who led the team in both assists (60) and points (76), the Canucks didn\u2019t have much to work with, as only Brock Boeser and Conor Garland were able to hit the 50-point mark, and no one was able to reach 30 goals. <\/p>\n

Going into next season, fans are asking themselves a number of questions, like if Elias Pettersson, now entering year two of an eight-year, $92.8 million contract<\/a>, will ever return to form, or whether Thatcher Demko, who signed a three-year, $25.5 million contract extension<\/a> earlier this month, will stay healthy. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and Matt Larkin rank all seven of Canada\u2019s NHL teams and where the Canucks fall on that list, and if Vancouver\u2019s offseason has helped make them good enough to get back into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. <\/p>\n

Tyler Yaremchuk: We both agreed that Vancouver is dead last, 7th out of seven. I don\u2019t even think it needs that much explaining, but when you look at center depth: okay, Elias Pettersson, what is he? Even if he takes a big step forward and he is a bonafide top-line center for you, you\u2019re still taking a gamble on Filip Chytil finding a way to be healthy. Even if he\u2019s been healthy, asking him to be a 2C is a pretty big ask. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of hope on that Vancouver roster. I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re guaranteed to miss the playoffs, but it\u2019s pretty easy to put them dead last in this ranking. <\/p>\n

Matt Larkin: I agree, and for me, the Canucks are at the top of my \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d power rankings. The team really struggled to find its identity. They weren\u2019t good enough to make the playoffs, and what have you added to this roster? <\/p>\n

You\u2019re pretty much running back the same core group, and like you said, hoping for a better season from Pettersson, hoping for health from Chytil, and you\u2019re bringing back Brock Boeser and Thatcher Demko, which is considered \u201ca win\u201d that they retained both players \u2013 but again, all you\u2019re doing is maintaining the core of a team that was not good enough to make the playoffs. <\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a disappointing 2024-25 season for the Vancouver Canucks, who finished with a 38-30-14 record and 90…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-25758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}