{"id":305809,"date":"2025-11-25T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305809\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:29:06","slug":"foote-confirms-thatcher-demko-will-travel-with-canucks-on-upcoming-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305809\/","title":{"rendered":"Foote confirms Thatcher Demko will travel with Canucks on upcoming road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Monday\u2019s practice, Vancouver Canucks<\/a> Head Coach met with the media ahead of their four-game road trip, providing injury updates on a trio of his ailing players.Foote confirmed that goaltender Thatcher Demko will travel with the hockey club. However, he doesn\u2019t expect him to see game action, but mentioned that recently called-up Nikita Tolopilo<\/a> might.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have to see him during the road trip,\u201d Foote said when asked if Tolopilo would play on the road trip. \u201cI mean, Demmer is going to join us on the trip, I\u2019m not sure if he\u2019d be ready at the end of it or not. I can\u2019t see Lanks playing the first three. So chances are you probably see Tolo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demko last appeared on November 11 against the Winnipeg Jets. He exited after allowing three goals in the first period and was placed on injured reserve without an official timeline from the hockey club.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been Kevin Lankinen who has been tasked to carry the load in the crease for the Canucks in his absence. He has appeared in all but one game (Florida Panthers) since November 5 (eight of nine games). Jiri Patera made his Canucks debut against the Panthers, allowing seven goals in the Canucks\u2019 8-5 loss.<\/p>\n

Tolopilo will likely draw into one of their back-to-back games on Friday against the San Jose Sharks or Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings. The Belarusian started one game last season, stopping 16 of the 17 shots he faced, securing his first-ever NHL victory against the Sharks.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeddy, right now, is being evaluated after today. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s ready to go. Hoggy was gonna meet us late, but I think we\u2019re gonna hold him back. He\u2019s still on a good target date.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Monday\u2019s practice, Vancouver Canucks Head Coach met with the media ahead of their four-game road trip, providing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305809","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\/305809","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=305809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}