{"id":556055,"date":"2026-04-19T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:24:16","slug":"top-5-goals-of-the-2025-26-canucks-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556055\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 goals of the 2025-26 Canucks season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the page is turned completely on the smouldering wreckage of the 2025-26 Vancouver Canucks<\/a> season, we\u2019re going to take a moment to look back at the Top 5 Canucks goals. This is not a distraction ploy or an attempt to find silver linings. Coming up with a Top 10 list might have proved too difficult given the material provided, but through the disastrous 82-game grind, given all the darkness of the past seven months, there was still occasional light<\/a>. Of the 214 goals they scored, the Canucks managed to produce a handful of memorable ones. Here are the top 5:1) Elias Pettersson goes around the world in San Jose<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8CANUCKS GOAL\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n

Elias Pettersson scores a beauty to put the Canucks up 2-1.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

Elias Pettersson managed just 15 goals in the 74 games he played this season. However, there wasn\u2019t a prettier one in the bunch, and there wasn\u2019t a more artistic goal scored by anybody in Canucks colours this season. Supporting Evander Kane on the forecheck, Pettersson knocks the puck out of mid-air around Sharks forward Tyler Toffoli, completes a 360 spin to avoid contact and create space for himself, then corrals the puck and takes it to the net. As he\u2019s hacked by Timothy Lilljegren and bumped by Macklin Celebrini, a sprawling Pettersson draws Yaroslav Askarov out of position and banks the puck off the Sharks\u2019 netminder and into the net for a spectacular goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2) Conor Garland stickhandles in a phone booth<\/p>\n

Lol Conor Garland is unstoppable <\/p>\n

In one of the most entertaining Canucks games of the season, Conor Garland dazzled in tight to score an electrifying goal in Anaheim. Midway through the second period, Garland tried to spring Brock Boeser on a breakaway. Boeser stopped up, spotted Garland as the trailer on the play and fed him the puck in the slot. From there, Garland slipped the check of Troy Terry, undressed Ducks defender Drew Helleson and slid a backhand past netminder Petr Mrazek to give the Canucks a 3-1 lead in a game they went on to win 5-4.<\/p>\n

3) Kiefer Sherwood splits the D against Edmonton<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8CANUCKS GOAL\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n

WHAT. A. GOAL. KIEFER SHERWOOD IS ELECTRIC \u26a1\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

In the final minute of the second period in a late October game against the Oilers, Kiefer Sherwood absolutely dazzled with a solo dash. After collecting a touch pass from Brock Boeser in full flight, Sherwood attacked the Edmonton line with speed. With Jake Wallman scrambling to get back into position, Sherwood dangled Mattias Ekholm and then snapped a shot stick-side past Calvin Pickard. It was Sherwood\u2019s fifth goal of the season and his first of two on the night \u2013 he also scored the OT winner. And he also had a goal overturned on an offside challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

4) Linus Karlsson, trick-shot artist<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8 CANUCKS GOAL \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n

Linus Karlsson goes between the legs for his first goal of the season! <\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

Linus Karlsson opened his goal-scoring campaign in style going between his legs at the side of the net to get the Canucks on the board in an early November game against Colorado. After a Canucks power play, the team continued to apply pressure. Quinn Hughes danced in the Avs zone, left the puck for Evander Kane who slid it across to Filip Hronek at the left point. Hronek\u2019s quick shot was knocked down in front by defencemen Devon Toews. The puck fell to the right-handed Karlsson parked off the left goal post. In a scramble, his first attempt on the backhand was thwarted, but he stuck with it and on his second attempt, pulled the puck and his stick between his legs and was able to pop it home past a sprawling Mackenzie Blackwood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

5) Fil provides a thrill<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8Canucks goal\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n

Hronek makes it four unanswered goals!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5 Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

The accompanying video doesn\u2019t show the way the sequence started. Nor does it offer the context that has this goal included on this list. It only shows Jake DeBrusk setting up Filip Hronek for a tap-in at the net front off the rush. What you need to know is that this goal turned out to be the winner that snapped the team\u2019s 11-game winless streak in January. It also came in a game that saw the Capitals build an early 2-0 lead. Absolutely nothing was going the Canucks way at that point. And then something changed. The Canucks roared back with three straight goals before DeBrusk and Hronek combined on an absolutely perfectly executed two-on-one while the teams skated four aside. <\/p>\n

As the Caps pushed for the equalizer, the puck slid to Tom Willander deep in his own zone. He quickly moved it ahead to Hronek who broke out with DeBrusk. With John Carlson defending and Aleksei Protas hustling back, DeBrusk drew Carlsson to him, then crisply sent the puck to Hronek, who redirected past Logan Thompson on the stick side. It was a pretty goal \u2014 the kind the team didn\u2019t score enough of off the rush \u2014 and it was also the marker that mercifully ended 11 straight without a victory.<\/p>\n

Honourable mentions<\/p>\n

Brock Boeser\u2019s overtime winner with two seconds left in Nashville<\/p>\n

Zeev Buium\u2019s give and go goal with Nils H\u00f6glander in the team\u2019s home finale against Los Angeles last week<\/p>\n

Let us know in the comments if there was a goal from this past season that stood out for you.<\/p>\n

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