Come For The Banter - Stay For The Disappointment
Nucks Fan Rebuild & Retool Center - Come For The Banter - Stay For The Disappointment
7 p.m. ET; SNP, Utah16
Back home after the most successful road tour of the year. So much was accomplished.
Worst beat best. What a game that was. Maybe the only game we want to remember from this season of forgettable performances. Something to tell the grandkids... we watched the hapless Canucks score 8 goals. In a single game! And didn't give up 10.
Even better... Nucks have secured 32nd place. It wasn't easy, but that Footey coaching mojo has finally paid off. No other loser team in the league can claim the shame, the stench of last place. It's ours!
Young and old Nucks are free to win out all their remaining games. So many games. Or not enough games to ensure a couple more wins. Whatever.
This afternoon, the ROG will be filled with the wool of hockey, the tusks of leftover coyotes. Or something.
Record setting season! With still more records to smash into little fragments of our tears!
Game Day Chatter
Heading into tonight's game, the 2025-26 #Canucks are tied for the third lowest goal-differential in franchise history: 1984-85: -117 1972-73: -106 1971-72/2025-26: -94
— Adam Kierszenblat (@adamkblat.bsky.social) April 4, 2026 at 10:52 AM
More happy thoughts.
A Loss Saturday Night Would Ensure The 2025-26 #Canucks Secure A Franchise Record @thehockeynews.bsky.social thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouve...
— The Hockey News Vancouver Canucks (@thncanucks.bsky.social) April 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Game Day Lineups
Mammoth projected lineup
Clayton Keller -- Nick Schmaltz -- Lawson Crouse
Kailer Yamamoto -- Logan Cooley -- Dylan Guenther
JJ Peterka -- Michael Carcone -- Kevin Rooney
Alexander Kerfoot -- Kevin Stenlund -- Brandon Tanev
Mikhail Sergachev -- MacKenzie Weegar
Nate Schmidt -- John Marino
Ian Cole -- Sean Durzi
Karel Vejmelka
Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Nick DeSimone
Injured: Barrett Hayton (upper body), Jack McBain (lower body)
Canucks projected lineup
Drew O’Connor -- Marco Rossi -- Brock Boeser
Liam Ohgren -- Elias Pettersson -- Linus Karlsson
Max Sasson -- Teddy Blueger -- Jake DeBrusk
Curtis Douglas -- Ty Mueller -- Aatu Raty
Zeev Buium -- Filip Hronek
Marcus Pettersson -- Tom Willander
Elias Pettersson – Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Kevin Lankinen
Nikita Tolopilo
Scratched: Victor Mancini, Nils Hoglander
Injured: Evander Kane (undisclosed), Filip Chytil (facial fracture), Thatcher Demko (hip surgery), Derek Forbort (undisclosed)
Status report
Neither team was to hold a morning skate on Saturday. … McBain, a forward, left in the second period of a 6-2 win at the Seattle Kraken on Thursday and did not practice Friday, but coach Andre Tourigny did not have an update on his status. … Rooney was recalled from Tucson of the American Hockey League on Friday. ... Vancouver did not practice Friday. Mancini, a defenseman who was scratched the past two games, could come into the lineup for Joseph or defenseman Elias Pettersson. Hoglander, a forward who also was a healthy scratch in a 5-2 loss at the Minnesota Wild on Thursday, could return in place of Raty or Mueller, who made his season debut at Minnesota.
Game Day Battle Hymn
We're waiting. Could be a long wait. Enjoy the process.
F*uck the war mongering fascists and enjoy the game. As best you can.
