New Era Nucks go into the big apple to prove they're big enough to play - win or lose.

7 p.m. ET; MSG, SNP

In case you missed the former wet coast tsunami that rolled into Quinnesota on the weekend, there's not much to say. That hasn't already been said one-hundred-billion times.

As much as we enjoy Canucks off-ice drama after long, long weeks of speculation, angsty insinuations and unrepressed commiserations we've moved on. We won the trade. We're still the worst team in the league. Life is good.

So good, the Nucks are on a reunion tour in the far east to visit and possibly beat former Nucks players and their teams. Today it's New York. Friday it's New York. It's always about New York.

Today Nucks faceoff against the Miller-led Rags. It's either an indictment or compliment to the Nucking franchise that provides captaining material to the league. That's leadership. To trade for. Or away.

Whatever. We don't care. Life is good in the bottom of the beast.

While the New Era Nucks are younger, more dynamic - now with one decent center, the Rags are old, ugly and more miserable than ever before. Likely beatable at home. At least we hope so... pretty much.

GAME DAY CHATTER

I assume we play our nemesis Quick tonight. Let's hope the Rangers scoring woes at home continue tonight. Rangers goalies are getting pissed. I assume Ziba didn't miss his meeting today? I predict another 2-1 #Canucks win tonight. I predict we win every game 2-1 the rest of the year.

— DJTaxman77 (@taxman77.bsky.social) December 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM

Today is game 2 of the Canucks Revenge Tour (revenge for what, I don't know). I'm cheering them on, so let's get Rossi that 50th career goal & Kampf closer to his 50th as well. A couple of other guys are due for a goal so it's time to collect. All for one one, one for all, all that crap. #canucks

— Terry & dog 🦮...🇨🇦🍁 (@aweebitdaft.bsky.social) December 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM

GAME DAY LINEUPS

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk -- Marco Rossi -- Brock Boeser

Nils Hoglander -- David Kampf -- Conor Garland

Kiefer Sherwood -- Drew O'Connor -- Evander Kane

Liam Ohgren -- Max Sasson -- Linus Karlsson

Filip Hronek -- Marcus Pettersson

Zeev Buium -- Tyler Myers

Elias Pettersson -- Tom Willander

Thatcher Demko

Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: P.O Joseph, Aatu Raty, Arshdeep Bains

Injured: Elias Pettersson (upper body), Filip Chytil (concussion protocol), Teddy Blueger (lower body), Derek Forbort (undisclosed)

Rangers projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Vincent Trocheck -- Alexis Lafreniere

Conor Sheary -- Mika Zibanejad -- J.T. Miller

Brett Berard -- Noah Laba -- Will Cuylle

Taylor Raddysh -- Sam Carrick -- Matt Rempe

Vladislav Gavrikov -- Braden Schneider

Carson Soucy -- Will Borgen

Urho Vaakanainen -- Matthew Robertson

Jonathan Quick

Igor Shesterkin

Scratched: Jonny Brodzinski, Jaroslav Chmelar, Scott Morrow

Injured: Adam Fox (upper body), Adam Edstrom (lower body)

Status report

Boeser did not participate in the morning skate but will play for the Canucks, who will use the same lineup from their 2-1 win against the New Jersey Devils on Saturday. … Zibanejad is expected to play after being a healthy scratch in a 4-1 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Monday, when he missed a team meeting that morning.

GAME DAY BATTLE HYMN

We're still on our NM Nostalgia kick - hanging back in the 80s when losing still felt important and right. Today we have a new motto: We're All Apathetic Canucks.

Fuck the fascists and broligarchs! Go Canucks Go!