St. Louis Blues at Vancouver Canucks: game preview
St. LouisBlues2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 37-33-12 · 86 pts · 22ndat
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndTwenty-eight points apart last season
St. Louis finished last season 22nd in the league on 86 points. Vancouver finished 32nd on 58.
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Meeting number 239
Across 238 completed games, St. Louis lead the head-to-head 130-87-21.
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 13 Oct 2025, St. Louis were 13th in the league and Vancouver 26th. By 21 Mar 2026 it was 28th and 32nd.
St. Louis out-attempted Vancouver 192 to 151
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
St. Louis Blues
Vancouver Canucks
St. Louis 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: 3 games for St. Louis, 4 for Vancouver. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for St. Louis, 10 for Vancouver.
2025-26: 82 games for St. Louis, 82 for Vancouver.
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
St. Louis
Small sampleVancouver
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
St. Louis crease
STL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Mar
No appearances against Vancouver in the last meetings.
Vancouver crease
VAN · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Mar
No appearances against St. Louis 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
St. Louis2.333.332.823.15
Vancouver4.754.502.633.85Goals 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
St. Louis · injuries
Vancouver · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Alexey Toropchenko on injured reserve.
Placed G Georgii Romanov and D Calle Rosen on waivers. Claimed RD Justin Barron off waivers.
Placed D Marc Andre Gaudet was placed on waivers.
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.
St. Louis · 2026 draft
See all: St. Louis · 2026 draft →Vancouver · 2026 draft
See all: Vancouver · 2026 draft →Saturday 20 March · the full slate
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