{"id":413863,"date":"2026-01-18T06:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:17:49","slug":"canucks-kevin-lankinen-wont-start-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413863\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks&#8217; Kevin Lankinen: Won&#8217;t start after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768535911_663_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/VAN\/vancouver-canucks\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/396.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/2928071\/lankinen\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lankinen<\/a> won&#8217;t start in Saturday&#8217;s home game against Edmonton despite being the first goaltender off the ice following the morning skate. The netminder is dealing with an illness, but he&#8217;ll still dress as the backup goaltender, Brendan Batchelor of Sportsnet 650 reports.<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Tolopilo will get the start instead. Lankinen has a 6-13-4 record, 3.36 GAA and .887 save percentage in 24 appearances in 2025-26. His next chance to start will come at home against the Islanders on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lankinen won&#8217;t start in Saturday&#8217;s home game against Edmonton despite being the first goaltender off the ice following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,276,5,1538,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-413863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-fantasy-hockey","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-kevin-lankinen","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-vancouver","14":"tag-vancouver-canucks","15":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115914651455741312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413863","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=413863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}