{"id":132439,"date":"2025-07-20T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/132439\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:47:11","slug":"vancouver-canucks-tyler-myers-doesnt-hold-back-as-he-opens-up-on-goalie-thatcher-demkos-current-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/132439\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks&#8217; Tyler Myers Doesn&#8217;t Hold Back as He Opens Up on Goalie Thatcher Demko&#8217;s Current A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nVancouver Canucks&#8217; Tyler Myers Doesn&#8217;t Hold Back as He Opens Up on Goalie Thatcher Demko&#8217;s Current A<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/580501.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Vancouver Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko  defenseman Tyler Myers.\" title=\"Vancouver Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko  defenseman Tyler Myers.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tVancouver Canucks defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Tyler-Myers-10523\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Tyler Myers profile and hockey stats\">Tyler Myers<\/a> recently opened up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Thatcher-Demko-37817\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Thatcher Demko profile and hockey stats\">Thatcher Demko<\/a>&#8216;s return to full health after dealing with several injuries in the last 12+ months.Fans of the Vancouver Canucks were treated to some fantastic news on the morning of July 1st as the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/vancouver-canucks-officially-sign-goalie-thatcher-demko-to-monster-multi-year-contract-extension\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">locked up star goaltender Thatcher Demko<\/a> to a three-year contract extension beginning in the 2026-27 campaign which will now keep him in British Columbia for the next four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Demko&#8217;s contract extension not only thrilled fans of the team, but Canucks players were also very happy to see a deal get done with the star netminder, including defenseman Tyler Myers.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks&#8217; Tyler Myers shares very high praise for Thatcher Demko<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the Cam &amp; Strick Podcast last week, Vancouver Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers opened up about quite bit about several topics surrounding the team lately including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/vancouver-canucks-defenseman-tyler-myers-opens-up-in-details-about-feud-between-jt-miller-elias-pettersson\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the feud between J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson<\/a>, their struggles during the 2024-25 season and of course, Thatcher Demko.<\/p>\n<p>Myers was full of praise for his netminder, calling him &#8220;world class&#8221; and that they&#8217;re glad to see him return to full health after a very difficult past 12-14 months where he dealt with multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demmer is world class. You know, when anyone asks about him, asks any of us about him, we always say it&#8217;s hard to explain how good this guy actually is.&#8221; Myers said. &#8220;I know he&#8217;s feeling good coming into this year, so I&#8217;m excited for him to have that feeling because I know there were times last year where it got tough for him. We&#8217;ve all been through it, experiences I had with injuries, I tried to tell him &#8216;you&#8217;re going to get through it&#8217; and the way he&#8217;s feeling now, he&#8217;s excited and I&#8217;m excited for him because he&#8217;s that good and he&#8217;s great in the room. Really happy for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having Thatcher Demko return to 100 percent health is massive for the Vancouver Canucks as it&#8217;ll allow him to go back to being the team&#8217;s starting goaltender, alleviating some pressure from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Kevin-Lankinen-57755\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Kevin Lankinen profile and hockey stats\">Kevin Lankinen<\/a>, who in turn could end up becoming one of the best backups in the league, if he is able to replicate what he did last season.<\/p>\n<p>If, and it&#8217;s a big if, Thatcher Demko is able to return to his Vezina Trophy finalist form from two seasons ago, along with some other players having a bounce back year, the Vancouver Canucks could be a serious threat in the Pacific Division as they look to return to the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on CanucksDaily<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>15 MINUTES AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a025 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks&#8217; Tyler Myers Doesn&#8217;t Hold Back as He Opens Up on Goalie Thatcher Demko&#8217;s Current Ability<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe that Thatcher Demko can be the team&#8217;s starting goaltender next season?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCANUCKSDAILY.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[23400,894,1669,5,4,6377,19654,893,27,5692,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-132439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-cam-strick-podcast","9":"tag-canucks","10":"tag-canucks-daily","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-thatcher-demko","14":"tag-tyler-myers","15":"tag-vancouver","16":"tag-vancouver-canucks","17":"tag-vancouver-canucks-news","18":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114886583549311079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}