{"id":268524,"date":"2025-11-07T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268524\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:46:10","slug":"canucks-could-be-without-demko-for-weekend-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268524\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks could be without Demko for weekend games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 29-year-old all-star netminder was not on the ice with his teammates at a practice on Friday, and Vancouver has called goalie Jiri Patera up from the American Hockey League\u2019s Abbotsford Canucks Friday under emergency conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Adam Foote says Demko is taking care of himself in a season with a condensed schedule, but did not say he was dealing with an injury.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/32-Thoughts-podcast-Elliotte-Friedman-Kyle-Bukauskas-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"32 Thoughts: The Podcast\"\/>32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/p>\n<p>Hockey fans already know the name, but this is not the blog. From Sportsnet, 32 Thoughts: The Podcast with NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas is a weekly deep dive into the biggest news and interviews from the hockey world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest episode<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Demko is 5-4-0 this season with a .912 save percentage, a 2.57 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p>He missed much of last season after suffering a knee injury in Game 1 of Vancouver\u2019s first-round playoff series against the Nashville Predators in the 2023-24 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end of that season, he was named a finalist for the Vezina Trophy, awarded annually to the NHL\u2019s best goalie, after going 35-14-2 with a .918 save percentage and a 2.45 goals-against average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 29-year-old all-star netminder was not on the ice with his teammates at a practice on Friday, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-268524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}