The Vancouver Canucks\u2019 2025-26 season\u00a0comes to an end\u00a0on Thursday night when the team\u00a0travels to Edmonton to face the\u00a0Oilers for their final game of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marco Rossi picked up another assist on Tuesday night, giving him four points in his last three games. The 24-year-old centre has really turned it on since early March. Rossi has 20 points (7g-13a) in his last 21 games and is continuing to build chemistry with the Canucks\u2019 first power play unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake DeBrusk scored his 23rd\u00a0goal of the season on Tuesday. It was his 19th\u00a0power play goal this year, which is a new career high for the forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Oilers have secured a playoff spot but don\u2019t know whether they will face the Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings, Colorado Avalanche or Utah Mammoth in the opening round of the NHL playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Edmonton is 6-2-2 in their last 10 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They are 21-14-5 on home ice this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Connor McDavid leads the league with 134 points this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They are without Leon Draisaitl, who is expected to\u00a0return to the lineup at some point in the opening round of the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Oilers\u2019 power play ranks first in the league,\u00a0scoring on\u00a030.1% of their\u00a0opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their penalty kill is 21st\u00a0in the league, killing off 77.7% of their penalties.<\/p>\n
The Story:\u00a0Foote Praises His Leaders\u00a0<\/p>\n
Head Coach Adam Foote has liked the way his team has been playing to close out the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canucks are on a three-game winning streak, but the wins and losses\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0matter as much as the style of play does at this point in their season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Foote highlighted the leadership of Filip Hronek, Teddy Blueger, Marcus Pettersson, and Brock Boeser following Tuesday\u2019s win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way they\u2019re leading allows the youth to grow, and grow faster,\u201d said Foote about the four veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re\u00a0holding them accountable, but in\u00a0a different way, which is\u00a0very positive\u00a0to see. So,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not a fluke what happened the last three games.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Players are sticking up for each other, blocking shots, not getting pushed around, and making the rink a fun place to be around, but also a place to work hard.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Top Performers over the Last Five Games\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake DeBrusk: 4g-0a-4p\u00a0
Marco Rossi: 2g-2a-4p\u00a0
Brock Boeser: 1g-3a-4p\u00a0
Filip Hronek: 0g-3a-3p\u00a0
Elias Pettersson: 0g-3a-3p\u00a0<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s game is at 6:00 p.m. PT, and you can watch the game on Sportsnet or listen to Brendan Batchelor\u2019s radio call on Sportsnet 650 and the Sportsnet Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks\u2019 2025-26 season\u00a0comes to an end\u00a0on Thursday night when the team\u00a0travels to Edmonton to face the\u00a0Oilers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-553515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vancouver","12":"tag-vancouver-canucks","13":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116411612833482932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553515","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=553515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}