Vancouver Canucks at Anaheim Ducks: game preview
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndat
AnaheimDucks2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 18thThirty-four points apart last season
Vancouver finished last season 32nd in the league on 58 points. Anaheim finished 18th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went VAN 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 141
Across 140 completed games, Vancouver lead the head-to-head 74-54-12.
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 26 Nov 2025, Vancouver were 29th in the league and Anaheim 7th. By 12 Apr 2026 it was 32nd and 19th.
Anaheim out-attempted Vancouver 268 to 228
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vancouver Canucks
Anaheim Ducks
Anaheim 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, 2 for Anaheim. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vancouver, 10 for Anaheim.
2025-26: 82 games for Vancouver, 87 for Anaheim.
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 sampleAnaheim
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.
Vancouver crease
VAN · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Oct
No appearances against Anaheim in the last meetings.
Anaheim crease
ANA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Oct
No appearances against Vancouver in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.9 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
Anaheim3.502.503.333.51Goals 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
Anaheim · 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 D Tristan Luneau to a six-year contract extension.
Reassigned C Roger McQueen and C Cruz Lucius to San Diego (AHL). Recalled D Noah Warren, D Ian Mitchell and D Tristan Luneau from San Diego. Placed D Drew Helleson on injured reserve. Moved RW Troy Terry from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed G Laurent Brossoit and D Travis Mitchell on waivers.
Vancouver · 2026 draft
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