{"id":273361,"date":"2025-11-10T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273361\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:06:07","slug":"thatcher-demko-to-miss-sunday-start-against-visiting-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273361\/","title":{"rendered":"Thatcher Demko to miss Sunday start against visiting Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/thatcher-demko\/8477967\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/thatcher-demko\/8477967\" target=\"_blank\">Thatcher Demko<\/a> will not start Sunday\u2019s NHL game against the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-foote\/8456283\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-foote\/8456283\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Foote<\/a> confirmed on Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-lankinen\/8480947\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-lankinen\/8480947\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Lankinen<\/a> will start for Vancouver against the Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lankinen played Saturday in the Canucks 4-3 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jiri-patera\/8480238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jiri-patera\/8480238\" target=\"_blank\">Jiri Patera<\/a>, a call-up from the AHL Abbotsford Canucks, serving as backup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Demko missed practice Friday, but Foote said he skated Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe felt good, he had a good day,\u201d said Foote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Foote said Demko could play Tuesday when the Canucks end a four-game home stand against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old Demko played in Vancouver\u2019s 5-4 overtime win against Nashville on Monday, but not in a 5-4 loss to Chicago on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In nine games this year Demko has a 5-4-0 record, a 2.57 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A knee injury limited Demko to just 23 games last season. He had a 10-8-3 record with one shutout. He had a 2.90 goals-against average and 889 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jim Morris, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Vancouver Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko will not start Sunday\u2019s NHL game against the visiting Colorado Avalanche.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-273361","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\/273361","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=273361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}