{"id":544729,"date":"2026-04-07T02:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544729\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:18:38","slug":"canucks-recall-jiri-patera-kevin-lankinen-out-day-to-day-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544729\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks Recall Jiri Patera, Kevin Lankinen Out Day-To-Day \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/author\/gabriel-foley\" title=\"Posts by Gabriel Foley\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Foley<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at April 6, 2026 4:08 pm  <\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Canucks have recalled depth goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/paterji01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jiri Patera<\/a> under emergency conditions. His recall comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lankike01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Lankinen<\/a> sustained a day-to-day, upper-body injury during Monday\u2019s morning practice <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DhaliwalSports\/status\/2041229264767557816?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK News<\/a>. Patera will likely backup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tolopni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nikita Tolopilo<\/a> in Tuesday\u2019s game against the Vegas Golden Knights if Lankinen is not ready to return.<\/p>\n<p>Lankinen has been Vancouver\u2019s de facto starter since usual starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/demkoth01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thatcher Demko<\/a> sustained a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2026\/01\/thatcher-demkos-season-in-question.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">season-ending injury<\/a> in January. Lankinen recorded just one win to go with a .885 save percentage in 11 games during the month of March. That performance brought his year-long totals up to nine wins and a .875 Sv% in 44 appearances. It is the second-most Lankinen has ever played in a single NHL season after he posted 25 wins and a .902 Sv% in 51 games last season. Tolopilo hasn\u2019t yet topped Lankinen\u2019s performance from the backup role, with only five wins and a .880 Sv% in 18 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Those performances will set a low bar for Patera if he needs to fill out Vancouver\u2019s roster. The 27 year old has appeared in nine NHL games before, including one this season \u2013 his only appearance with Vancouver. He has three wins and a .892 Sv% in those appearances. Patera has also recorded 11 wins and a .907 Sv% in 29 AHL games this season. He has planted his feet as a career minor-league goalie after being drafted by the Vegas Golden Knights in the sixth-round of the 2017 NHL Draft. Patera\u2019s stint on Vancouver\u2019s roster will likely be limited to backup duties until Lankinen is back to full health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gabriel Foley | at April 6, 2026 4:08 pm The Vancouver Canucks have recalled depth goaltender Jiri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[401,894,5,402,6877,1538,4,405,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-544729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-canucks","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-jiri-patera","13":"tag-kevin-lankinen","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-vancouver","17":"tag-vancouver-canucks","18":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361033171398529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544729","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=544729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}