Vancouver Canucks at Florida Panthers: game preview
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndat
FloridaPanthers2026-27: 2-0-2 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 40-38-4 · 84 pts · 25thTwenty-six points apart last season
Vancouver finished last season 32nd in the league on 58 points. Florida finished 25th on 84.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 49
Across 48 completed games, Vancouver lead the head-to-head 25-14-9.
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 17 Nov 2025, Vancouver were 26th in the league and Florida 23rd. By 17 Mar 2026 it was 32nd and 25th.
Florida out-attempted Vancouver 320 to 228
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vancouver Canucks
Florida Panthers
Florida 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 Florida. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vancouver, 10 for Florida.
2025-26: 82 games for Vancouver, 82 for Florida.
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 sampleFlorida
Small sampleQuinn Hughes 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.
Quinn Hughes vs Florida · game by game
See all: Quinn Hughes vs Florida · game by game →Kevin Lankinen has been the difference
Kevin Lankinen faced 78 shots across 3 appearances against Florida and conceded 4, a .949 save percentage against a season figure of .824. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Kevin Lankinen
See all: Kevin Lankinen →VAN · 1-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 12 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Leevi Meriläinen .943 (2 GP)
Full game logFlorida crease
FLA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 12 Oct
No appearances against Vancouver in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.5 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
Florida2.002.003.063.37Goals 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.
10 on the injury lists
Vancouver · injuries
Florida · 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 C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve. Called up D Alexander Petrovic from Charlotte (AHL).
Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve.
Placed RW/C Cole Schwindt, RD Alexander Petrovic, LD Donovan Sebrango, LW Kai Schwindt, LW Cole Reinhardt, RW Sam Lafferty and C/LW John Beecher on waivers. Agreed to terms with RW Nathan Bastian on a 1-year, two-way contract.
Vancouver · 2026 draft
See all: Vancouver · 2026 draft →Florida · 2026 draft
See all: Florida · 2026 draft →
Updated after every final