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With 25 games remaining, will the 2025-26 Canucks reach the 60-point mark?
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Jeff Paterson
Feb 16, 2026, 18:13 EST
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At their current pace, the Vancouver Canucks will finish the 2025-26 National Hockey League season with 60.352 points. Of course, NHL math doesn’t work that way, so the Canucks won’t wind up with a point total that includes decimal points. The league works on nice round numbers. Which begs the question: will the Canucks crack the 60-point mark when the dust settles on this disaster of a season?
With 42 standings points accumulated through their first 57 games, the Canucks have collected 36.8% of the standings points available to them. At that rate, they will add approximately 18 points from their remaining 25 games when they get back to action on February 25th, following the three-week Olympic break. 
Hockey math gets easy this late in the season. For example, if the Canucks, somehow, manage to go 13-12 the rest of the way, they’d finish with 68 points on the season. But it’s folly to think a team that has won two of its past 19 games (2-14-3) will suddenly erupt to win more than it loses down the stretch. 
If the Canucks go 10-15 over the final 25, they’ll finish with 62 points on the season. But even 10 wins over the final 25 games could be difficult for this group, given how the season has gone so far.
Anything less than 10 wins over the balance of the schedule and the 60-point mark will become challenging to attain. 
If the Canucks go 8-15-2, they’d wind up with 60 points. If they go 7-16-2, they’ll finish with 58 points. A 6-17-2 wobble to the finish line will see them end up with 56 points. The fact of the matter is that 60 points is far from guaranteed. 
Then again, if the Canucks get Brock Boeser, Marco Rossi, Filip Chytil, Nils Höglander and Zeev Buium back from injury, the coaching staff will have lineup options they haven’t had for much of the season. Rossi and Chytil have not appeared in the same game for the Canucks this season, and the team’s centre depth (or lack thereof) is one of the biggest factors for things going as far off the rails as they have for the hockey club this year.
It’s expected the Canucks will peddle pending unrestricted free agents Evander Kane and Teddy Blueger, and there is still some hope they can find a trade partner willing to part with something for David Kämpf, too. 
At their best, Boeser, Rossi and Höglander represent upgrades on the trio that could be on its way out the door. And a healthy Buium will bring an element to the back end that this team can use as well. Given his lengthy injury history and his indifferent play in the two weeks prior to the Olympics, Chytil is simply too much of a wildcard at this stage for the Canucks to count on. But there is the potential for the Canucks to ice their strongest lineup of the season if they get all of those injured bodies back. 
There is also the matter of the remaining strength of schedule. According to Tankathon.com, the Canucks have the 20th-toughest schedule remaining. Sure, they still have a pair of games left against Vegas and still have to face the likes of Dallas, Colorado, Minnesota, Carolina and Tampa Bay. But they also have two left with Winnipeg and matchups still to come against St. Louis, Calgary, Nashville, and Ottawa. Some, or all, of those teams will surely be sellers before the March 6th trade deadline.
In full 82-game seasons, the Canucks finished with 69 points in 2016-17. That’s the franchise’s low water mark over the past 25 years. The 1998-99 Canucks went 23-47-12 to finish with 58 points. And three times in four years from the mid to late 1980s, the Canucks posted 59 points – all of those were in 80-game seasons.
Of course, devout tankists want no part of a 60-point season to solidify the Canucks chances of finishing with the best overall odds of winning the NHL Draft Lottery. However, with a seven-point gap between themselves and the 31st-place St. Louis Blues, the Canucks have a significant lead in the race to the bottom. And it’s important to note that 19 of the Blues’ 20 wins this season have come in regulation time compared to just 12 for the Canucks. So St. Louis holds a commanding edge in the league’s first tiebreaker.
Ultimately, the Canucks final point total doesn’t really matter. By almost every conceivable measure, this season has been a monumental disaster. From the home ice record, to trading their captain and star player, to shutting down their number one netminder because of yet another injury, it has gone from bad to worse for the Canucks this season. Still, it will be interesting to see what this team looks like when the season starts up again next week. Will there be any kind of spirited push to the finish line? What impact, if any, will the trade deadline have on the players that remain on the roster? And in the end, do the Canucks have what it takes to collect the 18 points needed from their final 25 games to reach the 60-point mark?
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