Vancouver Canucks fantasy preview 2026-27.
8 skaters and 1 goaltender clear the pool line. Elias Pettersson leads at 2.06 blended ESPN points per game. The club ranks 23rd in the league in power-play points and 32nd in goals. Every figure below is a completed season or a published calendar.
Every Vancouver name in the 2026-27 pool
Sorted by desk rank in the format selected above. Any header re-sorts. Counting columns are 2025-26 season totals. The value chip is consensus rank minus desk rank: mint means the desk is higher on him than the four published boards, coral means the room makes you pay.
| Pos | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67of 400 | Elias Pettersson | C | 27 | 2.04 | 1.95 | 2.06 | -0.50 | 15-36-51 in 74 | 22 | 132 | 67 | 108 | 51% | 102 | +35 | |
| 150of 400 | Filip Hronek | D | 28 | 1.76 | 1.58 | 1.69 | -0.08 | 8-41-49 in 82 | 21 | 137 | 133 | 100 | 46% | 188 | +38 | |
| 169of 400 | Brock Boeser | RW | 29 | 1.53 | 1.65 | 1.62 | +0.55 | 22-26-48 in 75 | 19 | 166 | 54 | 26 | 45% | 161 | -8 | |
| 189of 400 | Marco RossiNEW · MIN | C | 25 | 1.61 | 1.61 | 1.57 | +0.19 | 12-23-35 in 50 | 14 | 66 | 47 | 30 | 48% | 203 | +14 | |
| 193of 400 | Jake DeBrusk | LW | 29 | 1.51 | 1.66 | 1.55 | +0.10 | 23-19-42 in 81 | 24 | 219 | 66 | 34 | 44% | 150 | -43 | |
| 314of 400 | Jamie OleksiakNEW · SEA | D | 33 | 1.18 | 1.40 | 1.28 | -0.09 | 5-10-15 in 78 | 0 | 77 | 112 | 106 | — | — | n/r | |
| 377of 400 | Luke SchennNEW · BUF | D | 36 | 1.10 | 1.29 | 1.17 | 0.00 | 1-6-7 in 50 | 0 | 35 | 149 | 57 | — | — | n/r | |
| 499of 400 | Zeev BuiumNEW · MINSoph | D | 20 | 1.00 | — | 1.00 | — | -0.15 | 6-20-26 in 76 | 13 | 73 | 28 | 55 | — | 237 | -262 |
- 67 Elias Pettersson C · age 27 · mkt 102 2.06blend 2.0425-26 1.9524-25 -0.50H2−H1 22PPP 132SOG 67HIT 108BLK 51%PG% 15-36-51 in 74+35
- 150 Filip Hronek D · age 28 · mkt 188 1.69blend 1.7625-26 1.5824-25 -0.08H2−H1 21PPP 137SOG 133HIT 100BLK 46%PG% 8-41-49 in 82+38
- 169 Brock Boeser RW · age 29 · mkt 161 1.62blend 1.5325-26 1.6524-25 +0.55H2−H1 19PPP 166SOG 54HIT 26BLK 45%PG% 22-26-48 in 75-8
- 189 Marco Rossi C · age 25 · mkt 203 1.57blend 1.6125-26 1.6124-25 +0.19H2−H1 14PPP 66SOG 47HIT 30BLK 48%PG% 12-23-35 in 50+14
- 193 Jake DeBrusk LW · age 29 · mkt 150 1.55blend 1.5125-26 1.6624-25 +0.10H2−H1 24PPP 219SOG 66HIT 34BLK 44%PG% 23-19-42 in 81-43
- 314 Jamie Oleksiak D · age 33 · mkt n/r 1.28blend 1.1825-26 1.4024-25 -0.09H2−H1 0PPP 77SOG 112HIT 106BLK —PG% 5-10-15 in 78n/r
- 377 Luke Schenn D · age 36 · mkt n/r 1.17blend 1.1025-26 1.2924-25 0.00H2−H1 0PPP 35SOG 149HIT 57BLK —PG% 1-6-7 in 50n/r
- 499 Zeev Buium D · age 20 · mkt 237 1.00blend 1.0025-26 —24-25 -0.15H2−H1 13PPP 73SOG 28HIT 55BLK —PG% 6-20-26 in 76-262
Vancouver are 23rd in power-play points
Six categories, summed across every Vancouver skater in the pool for 2025-26, each drawn against the league average of the same sum. The tick on every track is that average. Thin in both halves of a category league. Draft the top of this board and leave.
- G 92 lg avg 194 32nd
- A 181 lg avg 329 32nd
- PPP 113 lg avg 130 23rd
- SOG 905 lg avg 1644 32nd
- HIT 656 lg avg 909 27th
- BLK 516 lg avg 789 29th
Where the blended points sit
Share of the club's total blended points per game contributed by forwards, defencemen and goaltenders in the pool. A club heavy in the D band is a club whose value survives a league that starts four defencemen.
Deep at defence, barren at left wing
Ordered by blend inside each column, tinted by the same number on a fixed league-wide scale. Darker is better, and an empty column is the club telling you where you will have to shop elsewhere. Every tile links to the player.
Crease 1
Vancouver against the other 31
Draftable stock
1 Vancouver skaters inside the desk's top 100 — 30th of 32
Every club, sorted. DAL lead with 5; the thinnest club has 0. A tall bar is a roster you will keep bumping into in the first eight rounds.
Power-play concentration
59.3% held by the top three — 9th-most concentrated
Above the league median of 55.2%. The names outside the top three are even-strength assets.
One Vancouver name in the crease
Last season's starts, split between the goaltenders the pool ranks here. The calendar puts 11 back-to-backs in front of them, and those are the nights the starter does not get.
The tick is the league median busiest-goaltender share, 64.7% across the 32 clubs with a pool-ranked crease. Demko sits at 100.0%.
| Goaltender | GS | W | SO | GAA | SV% | Blend | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thatcher Demkoage 30 · mkt n/r | 20 | 8 | 1 | 2.90 | 0.895 | 1.24 | Depth |
Power-play points are normally split in Vancouver
- 1 Jake DeBrusk LW 24 PPP · 21.2% · 57.1% of his own points
- 2 Elias Pettersson C 22 PPP · 19.5% · 43.1% of his own points
- 3 Filip Hronek D 21 PPP · 18.6% · 42.9% of his own points
59.3% is a league-typical split: a first unit that takes most of it, a second unit that is not decorative.
3 in, 4 out
Only moves that changed a ranked player's club are tracked. Every blend on this page is computed from the player's own history, so a summer arrival brings his numbers with him.
Arrivals
- Marco Rossi part of Quinn Hughes return
- Zeev Buium part of Quinn Hughes return
- Liam Ohgren part of Quinn Hughes return
Departures
- Quinn Hughes for Marco Rossi, Zeev Buium, Liam Ohgren + 2026 1st; UFA after 2026-27; joins Kaprizov/Boldy/Faber
- Kiefer Sherwood part of Vancouver sell-off
- Conor Garland destination not captured
- Tyler Myers destination not captured
The Vancouver schedule edge
The only input on this page that is already known. It does nothing to a first-round pick and a great deal to your last two bench spots.
Season opens 2026-09-29. Mint tiles help you; coral tiles cost you.
What this roster already did
Brock Boeser put up 3-1-4 with 5 shots on 2024-01-27 for VAN, worth 9.5 ESPN points. It is the 27th-biggest single game in the desk's ten-season file.
Elias Pettersson owns the 16th-best C season in the ten-year file: 2022-23, 80 games, 39-63-102, 2.89 ESPN points per game.
3 Vancouver names to keep on the shelf
Where they play now and their NHL games so far. None of these are draft-night picks in a standard 12-team league. They are the names that change this page next August.
- Zeev Buium Vancouver Canucks NHL 76 GP · 26 P 76 NHL games
- Braeden Cootes WHL 17 GP · 23 P · 1.35 P/GP 3 NHL games
- Caleb Malhotra OHL 67 GP · 84 P · 1.25 P/GP no NHL games yet
Reading the Vancouver board
8 Vancouver skaters clear the pool line, plus 1 goaltender. Elias Pettersson sets the ceiling: 2.06 a night, 67th in the pool. Filip Hronek (1.69) follows 0.37 back. Usage can flip that order.
Shape: 23rd in power-play points, 32nd in goals. Thin in both halves of a category league. Draft the top of this board and leave.
Filip Hronek is the widest gap: desk 150, market 188. 38 slots in your favour. Zeev Buium runs the other way, 499 here against 237. You pay 262 slots over. 2 names carry a 20-slot edge.
Three players hold 59.3% of the club's 113 power-play points. A league-typical split, which makes the third name the underpriced one.
32 off-nights of 84, 15th in the league. 11 back-to-backs, 9th-fewest. Neutral at the bottom of your roster.
Thatcher Demko started 20 at 2.90 and 0.895. A backup's workload. The rates are a small sample.
3 in, 4 out on the tracked ledger, headlined by Marco Rossi. Average pool age 28.4. 2 trending up, 3 down. Next in line: Zeev Buium.
What this page does not know
Caveats, printed as the builder wrote them
- There is no projection here. Every rate is a weighted blend of what already happened, 0.6 on 2025-26, 0.3 on 2024-25, 0.1 on 2023-24, so a player whose role is about to change will be mispriced by exactly the amount his role changes.
- The DNA bars are club sums, not rates. A club with more pool-ranked skaters sums higher, which is the point: it measures the fantasy roster you can draft, not the average player on it.
- Power-play share is a proxy for first-unit time, not a measurement of it. It reads last season's points, so a club that rebuilt its top unit in the summer will read wrong until the season corrects it.
- The depth chart uses the pool's listed position. It is not a line-combination projection and no club has confirmed any of it.
- PG% is joined from a 250-player game-level build. Where a skater is missing from that build the column is blank rather than estimated.
- Roster membership follows the live NHL roster feed as of 2026-08-31. Training-camp cuts, waiver claims and September trades are not in it.
- Goaltender start counts are last season's, from whatever club the goaltender played for. They are workload evidence, not a depth-chart declaration.