VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Canucks have signed goaltender Chris Driedger to a professional tryout contract, the NHL club announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Driedger, 32, spent last season playing for Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Kontinental Hockey League, and posted an 8-9-2 record with a 3.05 goals-against average, a .897 save percentage and one shutout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The six-foot-four, 210-pound netminder from Winnipeg previously played in the NHL, splitting 67 regular-season games between the Ottawa Senators, Florida Panthers and Seattle Kraken.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He holds a career record of 31-24-5 with a 2.45 goals-against average, a .917 save percentage and five shutouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Driedger has also played in played in 217 career American Hockey League games, spending time with the Binghamton\/Belleville Senators, Springfield Thunderbirds, Coachella Valley Firebirds, Charlotte Checkers and Manitoba Moose, and amassed a 106-78-24 record with a 2.74 goals-against average, a .910 save percentage and eight shutouts.<\/p>\n
The Canucks also announced on Thursday that they have hired Sean Finn as an amateur scout after he spent seven seasons in the KHL.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Canucks have signed goaltender Chris Driedger to a professional tryout contract, the NHL club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[15539,5,6,20599,1352,285,1355,4,5945,5950,72,25,5157,1354,1361,73,43,1353,1356,27],"class_list":["post-650748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa-senators","tag-chris-driedger","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ice-hockey-contract","tag-ice-hockey-leagues","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-national-hockey-league-teams","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-seasons","tag-nhl-team-seasons","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-ottawasenators","tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","tag-senators","tag-sports","tag-top-level-sports-leagues","tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117169713526111824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650748","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=650748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}