New York Islanders at Vancouver Canucks: game preview
NY IslandersIslanders2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 43-34-5 · 91 pts · 19that
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndThirty-three points apart last season
NY Islanders finished last season 19th in the league on 91 points. Vancouver finished 32nd on 58.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 132
Across 131 completed games, NY Islanders lead the head-to-head 70-48-13.
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 19 Dec 2025, NY Islanders were 10th in the league and Vancouver 30th. By 19 Jan 2026 it was 9th and 32nd.
Vancouver out-attempted NY Islanders 303 to 269
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New York Islanders
Vancouver Canucks
NY Islanders 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 NY Islanders, 4 for Vancouver. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Islanders, 10 for Vancouver.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Islanders, 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
NY Islanders
Small sampleVancouver
Small sampleFilip Hronek 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.
Filip Hronek vs NY Islanders · game by game
See all: Filip Hronek vs NY Islanders · game by game →Ilya Sorokin has started most of these meetings
Ilya Sorokin played 4 of the last 5 meetings with Vancouver, with a .877 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 2 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 3 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Ilya Sorokin
See all: Ilya Sorokin →NYI · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Semyon Varlamov .864 (1 GP)
Full game logVancouver crease
VAN · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
Two goalies used against NY Islanders
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
NY Islanders3.002.332.842.94
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.
7 on the injury lists
NY Islanders · injuries
Vancouver · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Agreed to terms with LD Logan Stanley on a 1-Year contract worth $1.5M. Placed G Vitek Vanecek on waivers with the intention of sending to Hamilton (AHL)
Waived Fs Tanner Fritz, Matt Luff and Nathan Chaffee. Waived Fs Dylan Foudy and Hudson Kuefler for the purpose of sending to Hamilton (AHL).
Signed F Alex Jefferies to a one-year contract.
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.
NY Islanders · 2026 draft
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