Driedger, 32, spent last season playing in the KHL for Traktor Chelyabinsk, posting a 3.05 goals-against average and .897 save percentage in 23 games.<\/p>\n
A native of Winnipeg, Driedger last played in the NHL during the 2023-24 season. <\/p>\n
He was signed by the Florida Panthers as a free agent ahead of the 2024-25 season and then traded to the Winnipeg Jets for Kaapo Kahkonen on March 6, 2025, but saw game action only with each team’s AHL affiliate.<\/p>\n
In 67 career NHL games with the Seattle Kraken, Florida Panthers and Ottawa Senators, Driedger has a 31-24-5 record, 2.45 goals-against average, .917 save percentage and five shutouts.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-four, 210-pound netminder was drafted by the Senators as the 76th-overall pick in 2012.<\/p>\n
Vancouver currently has a tandem of veteran goaltenders in Thatcher Demko and Kevin Lankinen, though Demko’s injury status is uncertain ahead of training camp.<\/p>\n
Driedger has also played in 217 career American Hockey League games, spending time with the Binghamton\/Belleville Senators, Springfield Thunderbirds, Coachella Valley Firebirds, Charlotte Checkers and Manitoba Moose, and amassed a 106-78-24 record with a 2.74 goals-against average, a .910 save percentage and eight shutouts.<\/p>\n
The Canucks also announced on Thursday that they have hired Sean Finn as an amateur scout after he spent seven seasons in the KHL.<\/p>\n
— with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driedger, 32, spent last season playing in the KHL for Traktor Chelyabinsk, posting a 3.05 goals-against average and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-870567","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\/870567","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=870567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}