Vancouver Canucks at New York Rangers: game preview
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndat
NY RangersRangers2026-27: 4-1-0 · 8 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 30thNineteen points apart last season
Vancouver finished last season 32nd in the league on 58 points. NY Rangers finished 30th on 77.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 144
Across 143 completed games, NY Rangers lead the head-to-head 95-42-6.
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 28 Oct 2025, Vancouver were 25th in the league and NY Rangers 24th. By 16 Dec 2025 it was 32nd and 20th.
NY Rangers out-attempted Vancouver 274 to 251
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vancouver Canucks
New York Rangers
NY Rangers 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, 5 for NY Rangers. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vancouver, 10 for NY Rangers.
2025-26: 82 games for Vancouver, 82 for NY Rangers.
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 sampleNY Rangers
Small sampleElias Pettersson has 6 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.
Elias Pettersson vs NY Rangers · game by game
See all: Elias Pettersson vs NY Rangers · game by game →Thatcher Demko has been the difference
Thatcher Demko faced 89 shots across 3 appearances against NY Rangers and conceded 4, a .955 save percentage against a season figure of .897. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 10 Oct: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 9 Oct: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Thatcher Demko
See all: Thatcher Demko →VAN · 8-10-1 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 8 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Kevin Lankinen .824 (3 GP) · Leevi Meriläinen .943 (2 GP)
Full game logIgor Shesterkin
See all: Igor Shesterkin →NYR · 3-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 8 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Dylan Garand 1.000 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.4 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
NY Rangers3.201.602.903.05Goals 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.
9 on the injury lists
Vancouver · injuries
NY Rangers · 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.
Recalled C Gabriel Beaudoin from Hartford (AHL). Placed C Joe Veleno on injured reserve.
Placed D Matthew Robertson on waivers.
Placed G Joonas Korpisalo on injured reserve. Recalled G Dylan Garand from Hartford (AHL).
Vancouver · 2026 draft
See all: Vancouver · 2026 draft →NY Rangers · 2026 draft
See all: NY Rangers · 2026 draft →Sunday 11 October · the full slate
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