Vancouver Canucks
The whole organization. One connected view.
Western Conference · Pacific DivisionOpen GM workspace2026–27
Current roster2413 F · 8 D · 3 GKnown commitmentsUS$67.3M18 / 18 contracts pricedFarm system#14Middle · board consensusNext gamevs MINOct 25
Line combinations
Provider projection · 2026-10-12
#74
#40
#47
#23
#6
#92
#63
#94
#13
#7
#8
#17
#25
#55
#2Goaltending
Kevin Lankinen
#32 · VAN · 31 years- SV%
- GAA
- Games
2025–26 · NHL regular season
Shots on goal faced
1,125 saves160 goals allowed
Source & scope
NHL stats API goalie summary (aggregated across clubs), data/goalie-stats-2025-26.json · 2026-09-21T18:03:37.296Z. Current roster; statistics from the stated season, across clubs. This selection does not identify tonight’s starter. Condensed footage does not establish full video coverage.
Contract horizon
Cap & contractsKnown AAV · 2026–2718 priced deals
Ceiling · ConfirmedUS$104M
Known committed share64.7%
Ceiling less known AAVUS$36.7M
ForwardsDefenceGoalies
Line: season-specific ceiling. * Outlook or assumption. Balance is not certified cap room.
Cap outlook assumptions
Local to this panel; does not change the GM financial scenario ceiling.
Sources, coverage & amounts
Sum of known AAV, not a complete payroll forecast or available cap room. Relief, bonuses and other charges are excluded. The file may contain later-dated signed terms; its file stamp is not a historical as-of reconstruction.
NHL/NHLPA · 2026–27: $104M · 2026-05-06
NHL/NHLPA · 2027–28: $113.5M · 2025-01-31 · subject to adjustment
Elliotte Friedman / Sportsnet · 2028–29: $127.5M · 2026-09-25 · reported estimate, not confirmed
Beyond that, no published limit in the checked sources. Any chosen growth is a planning assumption, not a forecast. Expiring commitments do not automatically fund a complete future roster.
1 contracts with unresolved terms remain outside the bars.
- F
- 41,087,500 USD
- D
- 12,416,667 USD
- G
- 13,775,000 USD
0 priced signed extensions included this season.
Contract ledger · file stamp 2026-09-21
Prospect pathways
Prospects
Caleb MalhotraC · Brantford BulldogsNHLETA —
Tom WillanderD · Vancouver CanucksNHLETA —
Jonathan LekkerimäkiRW · Abbotsford CanucksNHLETA —
Context & more prospects
Farm-board notables; recorded development stage, not an arrival forecast.
Caleb Malhotra: 67 GP · 2025–26 · 84 points
Tom Willander: 70 GP · 2025–26 · 21 points
Jonathan Lekkerimäki: 21 GP · 2025–26 · 20 points
Selection follows the farm board's published notable order. The NHL step is a pathway, not a confirmed move. Arrival dates and current rights are not verified here.
Braeden Cootes
Adam Novotný
All pathways & roster lanes →What changed
All movesResults, standings & source context
2026–27 regular season · current roster
Team overview
What the contracts tell us
What the contracts mean for the next moves
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Next game
2026–27
Upcoming games, columns & export
| Date | Opponent | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| vs MIN | Regular season | ||
| at ANA | Regular season | ||
| at SJS | Regular season | ||
| vs TOR | Regular season | ||
| vs ANA | Regular season |
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Vancouver Canucks are among the most talked-about (91st percentile); attention is up on the usual
How much the club is being talked about: the league's stories tagged to the club and to its players, daily pageviews of the club's article against its 90-day baseline, and posts naming the club on the connected networks (Bluesky). Attention, measured; not a claim about what it does to the room.
Social: .
Carrying the noise: Aatu Räty (), Zeev Buium (), Elias Pettersson ().
Latest from the league: Kucherov scores twice, Lightning rally past Canucks (2026-10-18) · Game Notes: Canucks at Lightning (2026-10-17) · Canucks Road Trip Comes to an End in Tampa Bay on Saturday Afternoon (2026-10-17)
Contract ledger · researched 2026-09-21
Vancouver Canucks contracts, 2026–27 onward
Every contract CapOrCup could source, one row per player, one column per season. Certified rows match a club or NHL release. Reported rows come from a named outlet and are labelled. Contracts with no public source are listed separately, and none are estimated.
| Player | 2026–27 | 2027–28 | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | |||
| Elias PetterssonCertifiedCNMC | |||
| Brock BoeserCertifiedRNMC | |||
| Jake DeBruskCertifiedLNMC | |||
| Marco RossiCertifiedC | |||
| Filip ChytilCertifiedC | |||
| Drew O'ConnorCertifiedL | |||
| Linus KarlssonCertifiedC | |||
| Max SassonReportedC | |||
| Aatu RätyReportedC | |||
| Arshdeep BainsReportedL | |||
| Defence · | |||
| Filip HronekCertifiedDNMC | |||
| Luke SchennCertifiedD | |||
| Victor ManciniCertifiedD | |||
| Zeev BuiumReportedD | |||
| Tom WillanderReportedD | |||
| Goalies · | |||
| Thatcher DemkoCertifiedGNMC | |||
| Kevin LankinenCertifiedGNMC | |||
| Nikita TolopiloReportedG | |||
| Sourced total | |||
| |||
Cap or Cup · league-wide signals
Who is earning the cap hit
Each priced VAN skater compared with every priced skater at the same position in the league. Open a signal for the full drill-down on the league board: the tests, the numbers, and what would change it.
Private scenario · 2026–27
Vancouver Canucks cap planner
Enter figures you trust. The planner never turns missing contract data into a published total, and saves only in this browser.
Line 1
Boeser · Pettersson · Rossi
Line 2
O'Connor
Line 3
DeBrusk · Karlsson · Ohgren · Sasson · Räty · Bains
Pair 1
Hronek
Pair 2
Buium
Pair 3
Willander · Schenn · Mancini
Projected lineup · as of 2026-10-12
Vancouver Canucks as the feed projects it
Sportradar NHL API v7, team depth charts depth chart (licensed feed (30-day trial)): the club's intended lines, pairs, power-play units and goalie order, under Manny Malhotra. Measured lines above come from last season's shift charts; this is what the club says it means to do. "Expected starter" is first on the chart, not a confirmed start.
Line 1 · Jake DeBrusk · Elias Pettersson · Jonathan Lekkerimäki
Line 2 · Paul Cotter · Marco Rossi · Brock Boeser
Line 3 · Liam Ohgren · Max Sasson · Linus Karlsson
Line 4 · Arshdeep Bains · Aatu Raty · Brendan Gallagher
Pair 1 · Zeev Buium · Filip Hronek
Pair 2 · Elias Pettersson · Tom Willander
Pair 3 · Guillaume Brisebois · Luke Schenn
Power play 1 · Jake DeBrusk · Elias Pettersson · Brock Boeser · Filip Hronek · Marco Rossi
Power play 2 · Jonathan Lekkerimäki · Linus Karlsson · Liam Ohgren · Zeev Buium · Tom Willander
Goalies · expected starter Kevin Lankinen · Leevi Meriläinen
Official roster
Who is in the organization now
| Player | # | Pos | Age | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | ||||
| Arshdeep Bains | 13 | L | ||
| Brock Boeser | 6 | R | ||
| Filip Chytil | 77 | C | ||
| Paul Cotter | 47 | L | ||
| Jake DeBrusk | 74 | L | ||
| Brendan Gallagher | 7 | R | ||
| Linus Karlsson | 94 | C | ||
| Jonathan Lekkerimäki | 88 | R | ||
| Drew O'Connor | 18 | L | ||
| Liam Ohgren | 92 | L | ||
| Elias Pettersson | 40 | C | ||
| Marco Rossi | 23 | C | ||
| Max Sasson | 63 | C | ||
| Defense · | ||||
| Guillaume Brisebois | 55 | D | ||
| Zeev Buium | 8 | D | ||
| Filip Hronek | 17 | D | ||
| Victor Mancini | 90 | D | ||
| Jamie Oleksiak | 4 | D | ||
| Elias Pettersson | 25 | D | ||
| Luke Schenn | 2 | D | ||
| Tom Willander | 5 | D | ||
| Goalies · | ||||
| Thatcher Demko | 35 | G | ||
| Kevin Lankinen | 32 | G | ||
| Leevi Meriläinen | 31 | G | ||
2025–26 production
Last season’s scoring leaders
Club totals with VAN.
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1Range not available Elias PetterssonC | |||||
| #2Range not available Filip HronekD | |||||
| #3Range not available Brock BoeserR | |||||
| #4Range not available Jake DeBruskL | |||||
| #5Range not available Linus KarlssonC | |||||
| #6Range not available Evander KaneL | |||||
| #7Range not available Drew O'ConnorL | |||||
| #8Range not available Conor GarlandR | |||||
| #9Range not available Kiefer SherwoodL | |||||
| #10Range not available Quinn HughesD |
Shots for
shots a game, expected per shot
Shots against
allowed a game, expected per shot
From the video · model judgement
How they gained the zone in condensed games
Read from the league's free condensed games: entries carried in against dumped in, entries denied at the line for and against, and the rest of what the model could see. A condensed game is a sample of the game, so these are observations from the games read, not season counts.
Games read: VAN at CGY (2026010031), EDM at VAN (2026010037).
Coaching style · 2025-26
Close to the league on every measure
How the bench was run, measured from the shift charts and the play-by-play (a mid-season coaching change is not separated). Each is set against the league median; style words appear only where the club is clearly away from it.
System group
Plays like Los Angeles Kings, Florida Panthers, Washington Capitals, Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, Nashville Predators, Anaheim Ducks
Four groups found by clustering every club's shot profile for and against. The group is described only by the features that set it apart from the league; no label is invented for it.
Goal archive ·
Vancouver Canucks: every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Assistant GM
Vancouver Canucks: the front-office read
Every idea below is computed from sourced contracts, 2025–26 production, roster lanes, pick ownership and standings. Nothing is a rumour. Prices are computed guides from production and contract surplus, not market quotes.
Direction and front office
Selling
Selling now: veterans are available and the club is taking picks and prospects.
How this GM trades: . Sunk-cost risk: unknown.
Decisions that cannot wait
Most urgent
Ranked by how soon the decision is forced: offer-sheet dates, cap compliance, deadlines and sell-offs.
Aliaksei Protas (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Kevin Fiala (LAK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Ivan Barbashev (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Drew O'Connor
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Plan for the cap you might get
Cap outlook
Sourced commitments against the announced or projected ceiling, and against a flat cap at today's (the ceiling stayed flat in 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24). Unpriced contracts are not counted, so real room is smaller.
| Season | Committed | Ceiling | Room (projected) | Room (flat cap) | Needs growth | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026–27 | ||||||
| 2027–28 | ||||||
| 2028–29 | ||||||
| 2029–30 |
Long, expensive contracts: Elias Pettersson ( through 2031–32: ); Brock Boeser ( through 2032–33: ); Filip Hronek ( through 2031–32: ); Jake DeBrusk ( through 2030–31: ).
Expansion: none announced
Protection slots are worth something
The NHL has not approved or announced an expansion team or expansion draft. In June 2026 it gave the Friedkin family a six-month window to explore a second Texas team in Houston or Austin (about $3.5 billion for the fee and an arena). The Board of Governors met on September 22, 2026 without announcing a decision; any expansion would still need a vote of the Board. No expansion draft is announced. Reported, not official: a Houston or Austin team could be awarded before the end of 2026 and would begin play in 2029-30, which would put its expansion draft in June 2029. The league is also reported to be talking with at least two other groups about a 34th team. Checks here apply the rules to today's rosters and contracts as a planning scenario, not a forecast. The format is not announced either: one new club per draft (a club could face a draft in consecutive years) or two clubs in the same draft (a club could lose two players at once). Under the 2021 rules a club protects 7 forwards, 3 defencemen and 1 goalie (or 8 skaters and 1 goalie). Every no-movement clause in force must be protected and uses a slot, so its real cost is the player it pushes off.
If a draft is announced: ask a no-move player to waive for the draft, trade an exposed player now rather than lose them for nothing, or make a side deal with the expansion club to steer its pick.
Where the roster is thin
Needs
A position (centre, wing, defence pair or goal) counts as a need when most of its regulars are unsigned past this season, or when they produce below the league average for that position.
Left wing
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
Right wing
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
Left-shot defence
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
See it coming
Offer-sheet exposure
This club's own RFAs for summer 2027: what their production is worth on the open market, which compensation band an aggressive offer would fall in, and whether the club could match with the room it has committed. The 2027–28 ceiling is not set; this uses the current ceiling.
Aatu Räty
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Arshdeep Bains
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Players other clubs might move
Trade targets
Realistic targets, not wish lists: young players stuck behind veterans, salary a cap-strapped club has to move, rentals on selling clubs, and good contracts priced by what they are worth. Young franchise-core players and anyone with a no-move or full no-trade clause are left out.
Aliaksei Protas (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Kevin Fiala (LAK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Ivan Barbashev (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Igor Chernyshov (SJS)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Felix Unger Sorum (CAR)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- White noise
- Price guide
Fabian Lysell (BOS)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Price guide
Nick Robertson (PIT)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Mackie Samoskevich (SEA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Michael Carcone (UTA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Arseny Gritsyuk (NJD)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Mattias Samuelsson (BUF)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Olen Zellweger (BUF)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Restricted free agents, summer 2027
Offer-sheet candidates
RFAs at clubs tight on cap. Compensation depends on the offer's AAV band and must be paid in the offering club's own picks; the Carlsson offer sheet in July 2026 showed how far a club will go to match.
Matias Maccelli (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Calum Ritchie (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- Own 2027 picks held
Gabe Perreault (NYR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Maxim Shabanov (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Trades with three or more clubs
Multi-team ideas
Chains where every club receives a player in a need lane, gives up roughly what it gets, and stays under the cap. Salary retention is used at most once per contract (the 2025 MOU bars a second retention on the same contract within 75 regular-season days) and never above 50%.
ANA → DET → TOR → VAN → BOS
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → TOR: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at TOR: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - TOR → VAN: Nick Paul (salary, )
Gate at VAN: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - VAN → BOS: Max Sasson (sell-high, )
Gate at BOS: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - BOS → ANA: Fabian Lysell (blocked, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → TOR → VAN → BOS
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → TOR: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at TOR: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - TOR → VAN: Nick Paul (salary, )
Gate at VAN: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - VAN → BOS: Drew O'Connor (sell-high, )
Gate at BOS: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - BOS → ANA: Fabian Lysell (blocked, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → TOR → VAN → MTL
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → TOR: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at TOR: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - TOR → VAN: Nick Paul (salary, )
Gate at VAN: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - VAN → MTL: Drew O'Connor (sell-high, )
Gate at MTL: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - MTL → ANA: Zachary Bolduc (salary, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
Ideas to start from
Trade concepts
Each is priced from the player's tier and the contract's surplus over its remaining term, then cap-checked: salary in against salary out. A shape to test, not a final price.
Concept: Igor Chernyshov (SJS)
- Contract
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Nick Robertson (PIT)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Mackie Samoskevich (SEA)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Michael Carcone (UTA)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Sell while the price is high
Sell-high candidates
Players in their prime who produce more than their cap hit suggests, with the deal ending within two seasons: the moment their trade value peaks.
Drew O'Connor
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Max Sasson
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Players to build around
Young players to build around
Players under 24, judged on NHL games played and five-on-five scoring rate, their prospect ranking, and what they are producing now.
Liam Ohgren
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
Tom Willander
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Aatu Räty
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
Riley Patterson
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Latest roster move
Zeev Buium
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Summer 2027
Free-agent targets
Pending UFAs (26 to 32, no extension signed) in this club's need lanes. The current cap hit is shown for reference, not as an estimate of the next contract.
Jason Robertson (DAL)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Dmitri Voronkov (CBJ)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
Alex DeBrincat (DET)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Kirill Marchenko (CBJ)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Quinn Hughes (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Vince Dunn (SEA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
League context
Where the market is going
Price of production at signing: cap hit per point of pace in the season before the deal, from the sourced contract ledger. Samples depend on how many deals are priced.
The ledger holds contracts still active in 2026-27, so one- and two-year deals signed in 2024 are missing from the 2024 column. Segments with different term mixes are therefore not comparable here; the term-matched reading is the pricing study on the integrity page.
Goalies: by raw save percentage, a goalie's season after changing teams is almost unrelated to the one before (correlation across moves, vs for goalies who stayed). Adjusted for shot quality the gap disappears ( stayed vs moved): the system changes the shots a goalie faces, so judge goalies on goals saved above expected. of established-goalie trades returned a first-round pick against for productive skaters ( goalie trades: a small sample).
Largest cap hits signed in summer 2026: Leo Carlsson (), Connor Bedard (), Cutter Gauthier (), Pavel Dorofeyev (), Alex Tuch ().
Ask the Vancouver Canucks assistant GM
Answers use only the ideas above, the club's contracts and trades, and the CBA, and cite each one. If the facts do not support an answer, it says so.
GM horizon
Ryan Johnson: 0.4 years in
How long GMs have lasted since 1967, and what that implies for a GM who has served this long. A GM who expects to be gone soon has a reason to buy today; this is the base rate, not a read on him.
Win-now premium
Vancouver Canucks: what deadline rentals cost
A rental is a pending unrestricted free agent bought between January 1 and the deadline. Its price is the pick value sent, in expected career NHL games. Part of a price can be rational: a win is worth more to a club on the playoff line. This splits the price above the league mean into what the standings on the trade date explain and what they do not.
Win value is the rise in the club's chance of reaching the playoff line from one more win, in percentage points. Units are expected career games of the picks sent; a price in cap-share dollars needs the Worth model on rentals, which is not adopted. Not netted: the rental's quality, salary retained by the seller, and players or prospects sent. A rental's expiry is quoted from the trade's NHL.com story, or from the contract archive where the story is silent (an archive expiry can be a restricted one).
Farm-system consensus · front-office read
There is usable depth here, but the organization needs development wins rather than assuming draft pedigree will carry it.
- 01Separate near-term graduates from long-horizon bets.
- 02Find the position where opportunity is blocked or missing.
- 03Move a future only when the playoff gain survives the downside case.
Draft picks · 2027–2029
Vancouver Canucks picks
Every round for the next three drafts: the club's own picks, picks it has acquired, and picks it has traded away, with any conditions. "Own" means the pick was checked against the club's trades since 2023; "Own, unconfirmed" means no trade is on record but that check has not been done.
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Vancouver Canucks roster moves
Waivers, claims, injured-reserve placements, assignments to the minors and signings in the last 45 days, as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). Facts, not inferences: no cause is read into an injured-reserve placement, and what each move does to the cap lives on the cap table.
Aatu Raty
Jacob Quillan
Brandon Buhr
Filip Chytil
Aatu Raty
Akil Thomas
Chris Driedger
Jack Thompson
Akil Thomas
Nikita Tolopilo
Leevi Meriläinen
Filip Chytil
Braeden Cootes
Matt Stienburg
Aleksei Medvedev
Brooks Rogowski
Adam Novotny
Yaroslav Bryzgalov
Jimmy Schuldt
Cole Clayton
Trey Fix-Wolansky
Sawyer Mynio
Kirill Kudryavtsev
Chase Wouters
Ilya Safonov
Riley Patterson
Ty Mueller
Bennett Schimek
Austin Brimmer
Lucian Bernat
Ty Young
Anri Ravinskis
Aku Koskenvuo
Gabriel Chiarot
Vilmer Alriksson
Mackenzie MacEachern
Injury listings · as of 2026-10-18
Vancouver Canucks injury listings
What the club has published (Sportradar NHL API v7, league injuries feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)): status, body area, listed-since and expected-return dates. CapOrCup infers no cause from a listing and keeps its own availability measure, games not dressed, separate.
Waiver wire · last 3 league days
Placed on waivers, league-wide
Every player any club placed on waivers in the last three league days, with what the feed shows next: claimed, cleared to the minors, or nothing yet. A claim costs no assets, only a roster spot and the whole contract, and claiming priority follows the standings.
Jacob Bernard-Docker
Aatu Raty
Alex Barre-Boulet
Fit components (description)
Who fits here: fit: not yet validated
No ranking of who fits Vancouver Canucks is shown until the move backtest passes. What follows describes how Vancouver Canucks plays and is coached, and the roster rules any addition must clear. The lane-based matchmaker stays on the Assistant GM.
Head coach: , in charge since 2026-09-29 (4 regular-season games on file). Assistants: Not on file.
Usage by player cluster: fewer than three players in every cluster, so none is shown.
Contracts counted toward the 50 limit: . Active roster for the 23-man limit: Not on file.
as of 2026-04-16
Vancouver Canucks
trades
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Ryan Johnson
- 2030 1st-round pick
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Ryan Johnson
Montréal Canadiens receive
GM: Kent Hughes
- Future considerations
Nashville Predators receive
GM: Chris MacFarland
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Ryan Johnson
- 2029 3rd-round pick · now owned by COL
Toronto Maple Leafs receive
GM: John Chayka
- 2026 6th-round pick ()
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Ryan Johnson
- 2027 5th-round pick · now back with TOR
Edmonton Oilers receive
GM: Stan Bowman
- Josh Bloom
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- Jayden Grubbe
Washington Capitals receive
GM: Chris Patrick
- David Kampf
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- 2026 6th-round pick
Boston Bruins receive
GM: Don Sweeney
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- 2026 6th-round pick
Columbus Blue Jackets receive
GM: Don Waddell
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- 2026 3rd-round pick
- 2028 2nd-round pick · now owned by VAN
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
San Jose Sharks receive
GM: Mike Grier
Dallas Stars receive
GM: Jim Nill
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now owned by VAN
- 2029 4th-round pick · now owned by VAN
Salary retained:
San Jose Sharks receive
GM: Mike Grier
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- Cole Clayton
- 2026 2nd-round pick
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now owned by VAN
Minnesota Wild receive
GM: Bill Guerin
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- Marco Rossi
- Liam Ohgren
- Zeev Buium
- 2026 1st-round pick
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2027 4th-round pick · now back with VAN
Toronto Maple Leafs receive
GM: Brad Treliving
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- 2028 4th-round pick · now owned by VAN
Pittsburgh Penguins receive
GM: Kyle Dubas
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- Chase Stillman
- 2027 4th-round pick · now back with PIT
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Future considerations
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- Evander Kane
Edmonton Oilers receive
GM: Stan Bowman
- 2025 4th-round pick
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
- Carson Soucy
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- 2025 3rd-round pick
Nashville Predators receive
GM: Barry Trotz
- Mark Friedman
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- Future considerations
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
Pittsburgh Penguins receive
GM: Kyle Dubas
- Danton Heinen
- Vincent Desharnais
- Melvin Fernstrom
- 2025 1st-round pick
How the ledger is built
- 2024–25 onward: parsed from NHL.com's season trade pages, which list every trade. Each card links to the NHL.com announcement.
- 2019–20 to 2023–24: parsed from NHL.com trade announcements tagged to a club. Some trades are missing; those seasons are marked partial.
- "Details incomplete" means the announcement did not state one side; the original sentence is shown instead of a guess.
- Picks in 2027–2029 show their current owner from the verified pick ledger.
Statistical schedule · 2026-27 · as of 2026-10-18
Vancouver Canucks: difficulty rank #18Range not available
Every game priced by the model with the club's rest state. Difficulty averages four league ranks (opponents , rest , travel , back-to-backs ); expected points is the model's own forecast and depends on the club as much as the schedule. League table on the schedule page.
By month: 2026-09: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-10: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-11: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-12: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-01: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-02: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-03: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-04: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back.
Game by game
games
Price is the model's chance for this club at the morning of the game with rest known; it moves when rosters are published. The spot names what the schedule did to the club that night.