{"id":303468,"date":"2025-11-24T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:18:08","slug":"lankinen-starts-hronek-in-vs-flames-after-missing-saturdays-practice-with-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303468\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankinen starts, Hronek in vs. Flames after missing Saturday\u2019s practice with illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canucks lineup notes: Lankinen starts, Hronek in vs. Flames after missing Saturday\u2019s practice with illness<\/p>\n

Kevin Lankinen gets the start tonight. Filip Hronek<\/a>, who missed Saturday\u2019s practice with an illness, will be in the lineup. Foote informed us that there would be no other lineup changes from Thursday\u2019s 4-2 loss to the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n

This will be Lankinen\u2019s seventh start in the last nine games, and his 12th start of the season. In his previous 11 starts, Lankinen holds a 4-6-2 record, with a 3.46 goals against average and a .886 save percentage. Thatcher Demko drew the start on opening night against the Flames, in what was a 5-1 victory. Lankinen played the Flames three times last season, where he finished with a 2-1 record, with a 1.97 goals against average and a .925 save percentage.<\/p>\n

Hronek has appeared in all 22 games for the Canucks this season. He has one goal and 11 assists for 12 points, a plus-three rating in 24:23 minutes of average ice time. The Czech defenceman has played the most minutes for the Canucks this season, logging 536:19 in just 22 games \u2013 that ranks 14th in total ice time in the National Hockey League this season.<\/p>\n

Foote said there were no other lineup changes. So expect the same 18 skaters. However, according to line rushes after Saturday\u2019s practice, some adjustments were made. Jake DeBrusk and Kiefer Sherwood switched spots in the lineup. Here are the projected lines according to line rushes from practice:<\/p>\n

Jake DeBrusk \u2013 Elias Pettersson \u2013 Evander Kane
\nBrock Boeser \u2013 David K\u00e4mpf \u2013 Conor Garland
Drew O\u2019Connor \u2013 Aatu R\u00e4ty<\/a> \u2013 Kiefer Sherwood
\nMackenzie MacEachern \u2013 Max Sasson \u2013 Linus Karlsson<\/p>\n

Quinn Hughes \u2013 Tyler Myers
Marcus Pettersson \u2013 PO Joseph (Hronek placeholder)
Elias Pettersson \u2013 Tom Willander<\/p>\n

With Hronek returning, he is likely to return to the top pairing with Hughes. Myers filled in for Joseph, skated as a placeholder. Puck drop for Canucks vs. Flames is scheduled for 6 PM PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canucks lineup notes: Lankinen starts, Hronek in vs. Flames after missing Saturday\u2019s practice with illness Kevin Lankinen gets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-303468","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\/303468","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=303468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}