{"id":490682,"date":"2026-02-21T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490682\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:57:07","slug":"canucks-jonathan-lekkerimaki-undergoing-season-ending-shoulder-surgery-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490682\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks\u2019 Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canucks\u2019 Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery: report<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/canucksarmy.com\/vancouver-canucks-player-stats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> forward Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki will miss the remainder of the season and requires shoulder surgery, according to a report from Rick Dhaliwal of Donnie and Dhali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tweet-body_root__o7v_S\" lang=\"et\" dir=\"auto\">Lekkerim\u00e4ki is having season ending shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Lekkerim\u00e4ki has appeared in 13 NHL games with the Canucks this season, and he played in the club\u2019s last five games prior to the Olympic break before being reassigned to Abbotsford to stay fresh during the break. During that time, Lekkerim\u00e4ki tallied three goals and one assist through five games, bringing his overall AHL season output to 13 goals and seven assists across 21 games. Lekkerim\u00e4ki did not appear in Abbotsford\u2019s road game against the Henderson Silver Knights on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks originally selected Lekkerim\u00e4ki with the 15th overall pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. A natural goalscorer, Lekkerim\u00e4ki has struggled to put together the other elements of his game required to be an effective contributor at the NHL level, though Abbotsford head coach <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/canucksarmy.com\/news\/vancouver-canucks-roster-moves-jonathan-lekkerimaki-stick-around-call-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Malhotra did note not long ago<\/a> that Lekkerim\u00e4ki had taken great strides in those areas this season. Here is what Malhotra had to say, speaking on Canucks Central:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Lekky [Lekkerim\u00e4ki] has a better understanding now that it\u2019s not necessarily just the production aspect that is going to get him to the next level. It\u2019s the consistency of winning puck battles and being in the right position and being physical in the regards of, you know, going into a corner one-on-one and coming up with a puck\u2026 We understand he\u2019s not going to play the same as a D-Petey [Elias Pettersson] perhaps and lay guys out, but the element of being strong on pucks and physically is something that is a very transferable skill and is a necessary skill for the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is not yet a timeline for Lekkerim\u00e4ki\u2019s return to action, but we will be sure to post updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by bet365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canucks\u2019 Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery: report Vancouver Canucks forward Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki will miss the remainder of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-490682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490682","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=490682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}