{"id":336287,"date":"2025-12-03T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/336287\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:55:09","slug":"canucks-reassign-nikita-tolopilo-elias-pettersson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/336287\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks Reassign Nikita Tolopilo, Elias Pettersson"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a team announcement<\/a>, the Vancouver Canucks have assigned netminder Nikita Tolopilo<\/a> and defenseman Elias N. Pettersson<\/a> to the AHL\u2019s Abbotsford Canucks. The transaction indirectly confirms that the Canucks had previously activated Tolopilo from the non-roster designation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nearly 10 days since Tolopilo was initially recalled by the Canucks. Dealing with an injury to Thatcher Demko<\/a> and a brief leave of absence from Kevin Lankinen<\/a>, Vancouver had to rely on Tolopilo and Ji\u0159\u00ed Patera<\/a> for a short period.<\/p>\n

He played relatively well in his first NHL action of the 2025-26 campaign, securing a 5-4 win over the Anaheim Ducks on 41 shots. Unfortunately, that success didn\u2019t translate to his next start against the San Jose Sharks, where he managed a .875 SV% on 24 shots.<\/p>\n

Following the loss to San Jose, Tolopilo took his own leave of absence for the birth of his child and hadn\u2019t played since. He\u2019ll return to Abbotsford, where he\u2019s managed a 1-3-1 record in five games with a .901 SV% while Vancouver moves forward with a combination of Lankinen and Patera for the time being.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pettersson will suit up in his first AHL appearance of the season. Cracking the Canucks roster out of training camp, the 21-year-old blueliner has tallied two assists in 24 games with a -6 rating, averaging 13:29 of ice time per night. It\u2019s essentially the same production he provided last season, when he scored one goal and three points in 28 games with a -4 rating while finishing with an ATOI of 12:49.<\/p>\n

Simply put, the former 80th overall pick of the 2022 NHL Draft hasn\u2019t earned a spot on the NHL blue line, even on a disappointing Vancouver team. He\u2019ll look to build confidence and develop in the AHL for the foreseeable future. Unless the Canucks unexpectedly activate Derek Forbort<\/a> from the LTIR or make a separate call-up, they\u2019ll play their next few contests with six defenseman on the active roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a team announcement, the Vancouver Canucks have assigned netminder Nikita Tolopilo and defenseman Elias N. Pettersson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,45754,5,4,8662,405,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-336287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-elias-pettersson-d","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nikita-tolopilo","13":"tag-transactions","14":"tag-vancouver","15":"tag-vancouver-canucks","16":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115657161071339074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336287","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=336287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}