2026-2027 NHL team preview: Vancouver Canucks

Sep 24, 2026, 3:12 PM ET|Comments (0)

from Daily Faceoff (Frank Seravalli),

On Dec. 12, they traded Hughes to the Minnesota Wild , and a Vancouver team that hadn’t shown many signs of life with a top-10 NHL player in the fold did about what you’d expect after losing one. After briefly mustering some pride to tear off a 5-2-0 run after the trade, the Canucks won just three of their next 25 (!). The fire sale saw tireless forechecker Kiefer Sherwood depart in January and team leaders Conor Garland and Tyler Myers end their Vancouver tenures in March. The undermanned Canucks slunk to a 58-point finish, comfortably the NHL’s low-water mark (14 points fewer than 31st-placed CHI ).

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