Vancouver Canucks at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndat
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13thThirty-seven points apart last season
Vancouver finished last season 32nd in the league on 58 points. Vegas finished 13th on 95, and the 2025-26 season series went VGK 3-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 37
Across 36 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 25-7-3.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 4 Feb 2026, Vancouver were 32nd in the league and Vegas 11th. By 4 Oct it was 13th and 10th.
Vegas out-attempted Vancouver 307 to 208
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vancouver Canucks
Vegas Golden Knights
Vegas 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 Vegas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vancouver, 10 for Vegas.
2025-26: 82 games for Vancouver, 87 for Vegas.
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 sampleVegas
Small sampleShea Theodore has 5 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.
Shea Theodore vs Vancouver · game by game
See all: Shea Theodore vs Vancouver · game by game →Kevin Lankinen has been the difference
Kevin Lankinen faced 112 shots across 4 appearances against Vegas and conceded 12, a .893 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 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Leevi Meriläinen .943 (2 GP)
Full game logAdin Hill
See all: Adin Hill →VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 12 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (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
Vegas4.252.503.233.05Goals 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.
8 on the injury lists
Vancouver · injuries
Vegas · 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.
Signed C William Karlsson to a two-year contract.
Placed C Jakub Cormier, RW Matyas Hemmerling and C Jakub Uchacz on the injured non-roster list.
Placed D Jaycob Megna, D Adam Ginning, D Joe Fleming, C Jakub Demek and D Jeremy Davies on waivers.
Vancouver · 2026 draft
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