Vancouver Canucks Vs New York Rangers Pregame Analysis – February 15th

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The Vancouver Canucks play their 55th game tonight against the New York Rangers. 

The Canucks play their 2nd straight home game, following a 6-1 brutal loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Monday night. 

The Rangers are currently on a 5-game win streak and a 7-game point streak entering tonight’s game. They will look to extend their streaks against the struggling Vancouver Canucks.

The Canucks are currently 6th last in the league but are close to falling even further down the standings with teams below them starting to catch up to them. Teams like the Arizona Coyotes, San Jose Sharks, and Anaheim Ducks are 6 or fewer points away from jumping over the Cancuks in the standings. For Canucks fans, they might look at this in a good way, as the further they fall down the standings, the better chance they will have to land franchise-changing talent and personal Canucks fan, Connor Bedard. The Vancouver native is touted as a generational talent, and I’m sure even he is getting excited at the thought of playing for his hometown team.

The Canucks will have some changes to their lineup tonight. Canucks goaltender, Spencer Martin, was placed on waivers on Monday and went unclaimed, meaning he will report to the Canucks AHL affiliate, Abbotsford Canucks. His first start on the Abbotsford Canucks wasn’t too great, as he let in 3 goals in the first period. Not too good for someone who was playing on the main Canucks team.

Canucks head coach, Rick Tocchet, has confirmed that 21-year-old, Arturs Silovs, will get the start in goal tonight. It will be his NHL debut against a top 5 team in the NHL… yikes!

The Canucks are currently 21-29-4 heading into this game. They will play again at home on Saturday against the Philidelphia Flyers. The game will be on at 7 pm (PST).

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