New Jersey Devils at Vancouver Canucks: game preview
New JerseyDevils2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 42-37-3 · 87 pts · 21stat
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndTwenty-nine points apart last season
New Jersey finished last season 21st in the league on 87 points. Vancouver finished 32nd on 58, and the 2025-26 season series went NJD 1-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 80
Across 79 completed games, Vancouver lead the head-to-head 40-33-6.
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 14 Dec 2025, New Jersey were 16th in the league and Vancouver 32nd. By 23 Jan 2026 it was 18th and 32nd.
Vancouver out-attempted New Jersey 288 to 279
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New Jersey Devils
Vancouver Canucks
New Jersey 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 New Jersey, 4 for Vancouver. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for New Jersey, 10 for Vancouver.
2025-26: 82 games for New Jersey, 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
New Jersey
Small sampleVancouver
Small sampleNico Hischier 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.
Nico Hischier vs Vancouver · game by game
See all: Nico Hischier vs Vancouver · game by game →Thatcher Demko has started most of these meetings
Thatcher Demko played 3 of the last 5 meetings with New Jersey, with a .895 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 31 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 1 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
New Jersey crease
NJD · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 31 Jan
Thatcher Demko
See all: Thatcher Demko →VAN · 8-10-1 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 31 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Kevin Lankinen .824 (3 GP) · Leevi Meriläinen .943 (2 GP)
Full game logScoring 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
New Jersey2.004.332.803.10
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.
10 on the injury lists
New Jersey · injuries
Vancouver · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers.
Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers. Placed C/RW Marc McLaughlin, LD Vladislav Kolyachonok, G David Rittich, LW Riley Tufte, LD Topias Vilen, and C/RW Colin White on waivers.
Assigned Ds Mikael Diotte, Ethan Edwards, Jeremy Hanzel, Etienne Morin and Anton Silaev, Fs Josh Filmon, Lenni Hameenaho, Shane Lachance, Matyas Melovsky, Xavier Parent, Cam Squires and Ben Steeves and G Jakub Malek to Utica (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Utica Ds DJ King, Charles Leddy and Eamon Powell, Fs Tristan Ashbrook, Zachary Gallant, Gabe Klassen, Jack Malone, Justin Pearson, Ryan Schmelzer, Cristophe Tellier and Jermey Wilmer and Gs Jeremy Brodeur and Seth Eisele.
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.
New Jersey · 2026 draft
See all: New Jersey · 2026 draft →Vancouver · 2026 draft
See all: Vancouver · 2026 draft →
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