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Game Preview / Gamethread #72: Canucks vs Islanders

March 26, 2025
- Westy

CANUCKS (33-26-12) at ISLANDERS (32-28-10)

7:30 p.m. ET; MSGSN, SN, TVAS

Look at the lineup below....Good lord. Not a lot of skill....but there is a lot of "Grit". Maybe this is the type of team that can grind out a few must wins, with a goalie named Demko. I hope someone is whispering the word "playoffs" to Demko and then blow bubbles around him to remind him of the good times. One last run for Thatcher before he gets traded at the draft. Frankie is liquidating faster than Hudson's Bay.

Unfortunately, the Canucks need the Flames to remember they suck and start losing ASAP.

Hey Calgary!

Game Day Lineups

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk -- Pius Suter -- Brock Boeser

Jonathan Lekkerimaki -- Teddy Bleuger -- Conor Garland

Drew O'Connor -- Nils Aman -- Kiefer Sherwood

Dakota Joshua -- Aatu Raty -- Linus Karlsson

Quinn Hughes -- Tyler Myers

Marcus Pettersson -- Filip Hronek

Derek Forbort -- Elias Pettersson

Thatcher Demko

Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Victor Mancini, Arturs Silovs

Injured: Filip Chytil (concussion), Noah Juulsen (lower body), Elias Pettersson (undisclosed), Nils Hoglander (undisclosed)

Islanders projected lineup

Simon Holmstrom -- Bo Horvat -- Kyle Palmieri

Anders Lee -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Anthony Duclair

Pierre Engvall -- Casey Cizikas -- Hudson Fasching

Maxim Tsyplakov -- Kyle MacLean -- Marc Gatcomb

Alexander Romanov -- Tony DeAngelo

Adam Pelech -- Noah Dobson

Mike Reilly -- Ryan Pulock

Ilya Sorokin

Marcus Hogberg

Scratched: Scott Perunovich, Matt Martin, Scott Mayfield, Adam Boqvist

Injured: Mathew Barzal (lower body), Semyon Varlamov (lower body)

Status report

Demko will make his second straight start after missing 15 games with a lower-body injury. ... Fasching will return after missing a 4-3 shootout loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday because of illness. ... Boqvist, a defenseman who played forward Monday, will come out.

Game Day Chatter

Math is fun

Game Day Battle Hymn.

It's been a long, disappointing season and the hope is slowly draining from us....but, you can grab a drink of your choice and get that last bit of optimism in you veins.

Go Coconuts Go!

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