Worst Fears Confirmed For Vancouver Canucks Goalie Thatcher Demko After Leaving Maple Leafs Game with Injury

After months of trade speculations, injuries and drama that have surrounded the Vancouver Canucks, it was believed that with the recent trade of J.T. Miller, there would be a grace period to give fans a break, but unfortunately, that is not the case with the recent announcement about netminder Thatcher Demko.

Thatcher Demko has had a tough go of it ever since he returned from a knee injury on December 10th.

After going down in the first-round of the Stanley Cup playoffs last season, Thatcher Demko has had a long a difficult ten months trying to rehab a pair of knee injuries which almost ended his career.

Now that he is back, he has struggled to find his game, but recently, he has started to get back in the groove, even securing a shutout against the Colorado Avalanche on February 4th.

When things were just about starting to look up, Demko left today's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, appearing to tweak his lower body half way through the first period.

Fortunately they have Kevin Lankinen to step right in like he has done all season long, but Canucks fans' worst fears worst confirmed when it was announced Demko would not return to the game.

The unfortunate thing to this whole story is the 29-year-old is coming off easily his best career season.

He was the runner-up to Winnipeg Jets netminder Connor Hellebuyck for the Vezina Trophy and while there's still plenty of time to rebound this season, him leaving the game and not returning is extremely worrisome.