Vancouver Canucks at Carolina Hurricanes: game preview
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndat
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndFifty-five points apart last season
Vancouver finished last season 32nd in the league on 58 points. Carolina finished 2nd on 113, and the 2025-26 season series went CAR 2-0-0.
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Meeting number 42
Across 41 completed games, Vancouver lead the head-to-head 24-14-3.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 14 Nov 2025, Vancouver were 27th in the league and Carolina 4th. By 4 Mar 2026 it was 32nd and 3rd.
Carolina out-attempted Vancouver 326 to 230
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vancouver Canucks
Carolina Hurricanes
Carolina have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Vancouver, 4 for Carolina. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vancouver, 10 for Carolina.
2025-26: 82 games for Vancouver, 86 for Carolina.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Vancouver
Small sampleCarolina
Small sampleAndrei Svechnikov has 7 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Andrei Svechnikov vs Vancouver · game by game
See all: Andrei Svechnikov vs Vancouver · game by game →Kevin Lankinen has been the difference
Kevin Lankinen faced 92 shots across 3 appearances against Carolina and conceded 12, a .870 save percentage against a season figure of .824. Starters are confirmed on game day.
- .958 save percentage over his last three starts
2026-27: 2 GP · .943 SV% · GSAx +1
Also possible: Lankinen 43%
Injured: Demko (injured reserve)
- Started 3 of 4 this season
- 41 of the team's last 82 starts
2026-27: 3 GP · .851 SV% · GSAx −4
Also possible: Kochetkov 42%
Kevin Lankinen
See all: Kevin Lankinen →VAN · 1-2-0 in 2026-27 Chance to start · 43%
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Leevi Meriläinen .943 (2 GP)
Full game logPyotr Kochetkov
See all: Pyotr Kochetkov →CAR · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Chance to start · 42%
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Brandon Bussi .851 (3 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.7 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Vancouver4.754.502.633.85
Carolina2.753.003.612.93Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
7 on the injury lists
Vancouver · injuries
Carolina · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed G Nikita Tolopilo on waivers.
Claimed G Leevi Merilainen off waivers from Ottawa. Placed F Filip Chytil on injured reserve. Assigned F Braeden Cootes to Abbotsford (AHL).
Assigned Fs Ty Mueller, Riley Patterson, Ilya Safonov and Chase Wouters, Ds Kirill Kudryavtsev and Sawyer Mynio to Abbotsford (AHL). Loaned F Ben Berard and D Isaac Belliveau to Abbotsford. Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford F Trey Fix-Wolansky and Ds Cole Clayton and Jimmy Schuldt.
Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Vancouver · 2026 draft
See all: Vancouver · 2026 draft →Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →
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