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Scenes from morning skate: Lekkerimäki and Boeser swap lines as Canucks start road trip vs. Golden Knights

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By Jeff Paterson

Nov 15, 2026, 14:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 15, 2026, 13:51 EST

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The Vancouver Canucks (3-17-1) head out on the road for the start of a back-to-back set when they visit the Vegas Golden Knights (13-5-3) at T-Mobile Arena. Tonight’s game starts at 7 pm PCT.

The Canucks will face the Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City on Monday night.

What we saw

Dan Murphy

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#canucks lines vs VGK: DeBrusk-EP40-Lekk Ohgren-Rossi-Karlsson Cotter-Chytil-Boeser DOC-Sasson-Gallagher Buium-Hronek EP25-Willander Oleksiak-Crotty All 3 goalies here, Lankinen did starters routine

6:06 PM · Nov 15, 2026

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The Canucks appear to be swapping Brock Boeser and JonathanLekkerimäkii to start tonight’s game. Boeser is riding a six-game point streak and collected the 500th point of his NHL career, assisting on Elias Pettersson’s goal in a 5-1 loss to the New York Rangers on Friday. The goal was Pettersson’s first at 5-on-5 this season and pushed his team-leading total to 21 points in 21 games.

Filip Chytil and Tom Willander both returned from injury on Friday, while Cameron Crotty made his Canucks debut, logging 12:18 of ice time. Based on the morning skate, the Canucks will go with the same six defencemen they used on Friday.

According to Sportsnet’s Dan Murphy, Kevin Lankinen did the starter’s drills at morning skate, but then later reported that Leevi Meriläinen was the first of three netminders at the skate to leave the ice. If Meriläinen gets the nod tonight, it will be his fifth straight start and his ninth in the team’s last 10 games. With Lankinen struggling and without a win since opening night, the Canucks have recalled Nikita Tolopilo from AHL Abbotsford. He is expected to make his season debut at the NHL level on Monday in Utah.

As a team, the Canucks have lost seven straight and have just one win in their last 18 games (1-16-1).

Goals have been hard to come by for the Canucks of late. They have been held to one goal in each of their last two games and scored twice in each of the two games prior to that, for a total of six goals in their last four outings. Brock Boeser has two of the last six goals, with singles from Elias Pettersson, Jonathan Lekkerimäki, Max Sasson and Liam Öhgren.

The Opponent

The Golden Knights return to action following a 3-2 shootout loss at home to Nashville on Friday. Victor Olofsson and Rasmus Andersson scored, while Adin Hill stopped 30 of the 32 shots he faced. The loss snapped the team’s four-game win streak; however, Vegas now has just one outright loss in its last nine games (5-1-3). The club has points in all six games it has played in November (4-0-2).

Jack Eichel leads the team in scoring with 26 points while Mitch Marner is just two points back. Mark Stone has a team-high 10 goals. At 416, Stone is one point behind Jonathan Marchessault for the Knights franchise lead in scoring.

Danny Webster

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The experiment of Trevor Connelly on the top line is over. Ivan Barbashev will rejoin Jack Eichel and Mark Stone for Sunday against Vancouver. "That line has been good for a long time. Barbie's got his game in good order." Story: reviewjournal.com/sports/goldenk…

12:10 AM · Nov 15, 2026

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Vegas is the sixth-best defensive team in the league, allowing 2.62 goals per game. Hill and Carter Hart have alternated the past six starts. If that trend continues, Hart will have the net tonight.

The Golden Knights are potent on the power play, clicking on 27.4% of their chances with the man advantage. That has them tied for fifth in the NHL. Tomas Hertl leads the club with five power play goals. Overall, he has four goals and four assists on a six-game point streak.

News and notes

The Golden Knights defeated the Canucks 3-2 at Rogers Arena on October 4th and have won eight straight meetings between the teams. These clubs will face off twice more over the final 10 days of the regular season – March 25th in Vancouver and March 31st in Vegas.

The referees for tonight’s game are Kyle Rehman and Mike Sullivan.

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