Canucks Line Combos Read Description

Team: 2022-23 Vancouver Canucks

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 6, 2022

Published: Sep. 6, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Taxi Squad is for mid-season callups

-Podkolzin-Pettersson-Garland line showed hints of brilliance last year

-Miller and Boeser have been glued together for a while. Kuzmenko is a good player to complete the trio

-Horvat and Hoglander have played together and done fairly well. Hopefully Hoglander bounces back playing alongside cap. Mikheyev brings much needed speed to the forward group

-Fourth line is where things can get shuffled. Lazar is likely a lock. Hopefully Tanner Pearson is moved because he is not a fourth line player, but we really don't have room for him in the top 9. Joshua likely is on the NHL roster as GM Allvin seems to like him. Would like to see Lockwood get some time especially if he does well in training camp. Other players in the taxi squad are callups in case of injury, or youngsters who could get a few games in if things go south near the end of the year
-Quinn Hughes relocated to RD. Can be OEL but Hughes-OEL is the main goal

-De Haan stay at home d man to backup the chaos giraffe Myers

-Schenn playing with Rathbone acting as mentor like he did with Hughes

Powerplay 1 stays pretty much the same.
Powerplay 2 has no center. Will start shifts on the fly.

Penalty Kill 1 has improved with recent additions
Penalty Kill 2 includes Pettersson and Hughes who used their high hockey IQ to prevent goals against last year. I tried something new hwhich is to include 3 d men and only 1 forward.

Demko will be the starter, likely playing around 60 games
Martin hopefully provides steady numbers playing around 20 games.


Overall, I think if everybody is playing as good as they can, this can definitely be a playoff team. I have no worries about out offense. Defense wise, it may be a bit concerning but Demko has shown he can carry this team further than they should.