Vancouver Canucks Vs Philadelphia Flyers Pregame Analysis – February 18th

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The Vancouver Canucks are set to face the Philadelphia Flyers this Saturday in a Hockey Night in Canada battle.

The Canucks have lost their last 3 games in brutal fashion, allowing 5-goals in 2 of their games and 6-goals in the other. Whether it’s goaltending or defense that’s the core issue is up for debate, but the reality is, they should not be allowing this many goals in one game, let alone 3 games.

The Flyers are also in the same boat as the Canucks, having lost their last 3 games as well. The Flyers most recently lost to the Seattle Kraken in a dominating 6-2 loss on Thursday. 

The Canucks will start goaltender Arturs Silovs for tonight’s game. The original plan was to have All-Star goaltender, Thatcher Demko, backup the starting goaltender of tonight’s game, but he reaggravated his injured knee in practice and is not out indefinitely when he was originally expected to return sometime this month. This hurts, as even the Canucks season has been lackluster (for a lack of a better word), Demko’s return would have been something to look forward to for Canucks fans despite his awful 3-10-2 record. 

The dark cloud over the Canucks organization continues to rain over them. Whichever team wins tonight will have their 3-game losing streak come to an end, while the losing team will make their losing streak come to 4 games.

After tonight’s game, the Canucks will make their way to Nashville for a road game against the Predators on Tuesday.

Former Vancouver Canucks head coach, John Tortorella, will make another return to Vancouver on the opposing side. He was the head coach for the Vancouver Canucks for one season and had a 36-35-11 record which wasn’t good enough for a playoff spot. He was replaced the next season by Willie Desjardins.

The game tonight will be on at 7 pm (PST). 

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