Edmonton Oilers at Vancouver Canucks: game preview
EdmontonOilers2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 41-30-11 · 93 pts · 14that
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndThirty-five points apart last season
Edmonton finished last season 14th in the league on 93 points. Vancouver finished 32nd on 58, and the 2025-26 season series went EDM 3-0-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 301
Across 300 completed games, Edmonton lead the head-to-head 168-103-28.
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 26 Oct 2025, Edmonton were 17th in the league and Vancouver 16th. By 1 Oct it was 1st and 16th.
Edmonton out-attempted Vancouver 332 to 229
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Edmonton Oilers
Vancouver Canucks
Edmonton 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 Edmonton, 4 for Vancouver. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Edmonton, 10 for Vancouver.
2025-26: 82 games for Edmonton, 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
Edmonton
Small sampleVancouver
Small sampleEvan Bouchard has 13 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.
Evan Bouchard vs Vancouver · game by game
See all: Evan Bouchard vs Vancouver · game by game →Tristan Jarry has been the difference
Tristan Jarry faced 54 shots across 2 appearances against Vancouver and conceded 6, a .889 save percentage against a season figure of .739. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Tristan Jarry
See all: Tristan Jarry →EDM · 0-0-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Mar
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Devon Levi .810 (2 GP)
Full game logKevin Lankinen
See all: Kevin Lankinen →VAN · 1-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Mar
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Leevi Meriläinen .943 (2 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 7.2 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
Edmonton5.674.673.443.28
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.
14 on the injury lists
Edmonton · injuries
Vancouver · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on injured reserve. Placed D Alec Regula on long-term injured reserve. Recalled F Josh Samanski under emergency conditions.
Placed G Matt Tomkins on waivers for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield (AHL).
Loaned D Tomas Cibulka, Fs Connor Clattenburg, Quinn Hutson, Viljami Marjala, William Nicholl and Aku Raty and G Connor Ungar to Bakersfield (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield Ds Josh Brown and Riley Stillman and F Eduards Tralmaks.
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.
Edmonton · 2026 draft
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