Vancouver Canucks Announce Lines & Starting GoalieFor Most Important Game of the Season vs St. Louis Blues
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The Vancouver Canucks will kick off their six-game road trip in St. Louis tonight and the team's projected lines, defensive pairings and starting netminder were revealed at the morning skate.
Rick Tocchet's group are set to enter the most important time of the 2024-25 season starting on Thursday as their road trip begins in St. Louis against a Blues team that is tied with them for the final wild card spot in the Western Conference.
To call tonight's game Vancouver's most important of the 2024-25 season would be an understatement and with a win in regulation, the Canucks' playoff odds would shoot to just above 50 percent.
Projected lines, defensive pairings & starting netminder vs St. Louis Blues
The Vancouver Canucks took to the ice at Enterprise Center in St. Louis on Thursday for their morning skate and it appears that the lines will look the same from Tuesday's big win over the Winnipeg Jets.
Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet said that Conor Garland, who skated on the fourth line this morning, will be a game-time decision again and he'll speak with him this afternoon to see if he's good to go.
If Garland is able to go, he more than likely won't be on the fourth line and one would assume that he'll swap places with Kiefer Sherwood, who was in the 2RW role at the morning skate.
It also appears that 2022 first-round pick Jonathan Lekkerimaki will be a healthy scratch to start the road trip, which certainly won't sit well with fans and at this point, he'd be better off playing top-six minutes and developing in the AHL rather than in the press box in the NHL.
Defensive pairings also stayed the same this morning, with Victor Mancini set to be a healthy scractch for a second consecutive game in favor of rookie blueliner Elias Pettersson.
Kevin Lankinen is set to get the nod in between the pipes and is looking for his 25th win of the 2024-25 season in just his 45th game.
As for tonight's backup, that'll go to Arturs Silovs and while he did have his own net once again at the morning skate, injured netminder Thatcher Demko will be the odd man out, but is progressing, according to Rick Tocchet.
"#canucks in the LOO
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Silovs" Sportsnet's Dan Murphy post on X on Thursday.
Puck drop for tonight's game against the St. Louis Blues is set for 4:30 pm PT on Sportsnet Pacific.
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