{"id":276976,"date":"2025-11-11T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276976\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:44:07","slug":"vancouver-canucks-goalie-thatcher-demko-to-return-vs-winnipeg-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276976\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko to return vs. Winnipeg Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko will return to the net Tuesday when Vancouver hosts the Winnipeg Jets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vancouver head coach Adam Foote confirmed after morning skate that the 29-year-old all-star will get the start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Demko has not played since a 5-4 overtime win against the Predators on Nov. 3 in Nashville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Foote said on Friday the goalie was taking care of himself in a season with a condensed schedule, but did not say he was dealing with an injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Demko is 5-4-0 this season with a .912 save percentage and a 2.57 goals-against average. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-foot-four, 192-pound goalkeeper missed much of last season after suffering a knee injury in Game 1 of Vancouver\u2019s first-round playoff series against the Predators in the 2023-24 campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko will return to the net Tuesday when Vancouver hosts the Winnipeg Jets.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-276976","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\/276976","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=276976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}