With five games remaining in their season, the Vancouver Canucks are going to be without three key players for at least their next two games.

The Canucks are in Dallas to take on the Stars tonight, and Sportsnet’s Iain MacIntyre offered up some injury updates from the team’s morning skate. According to MacIntyre, forwards Elias Pettersson and Filip Chytil, along with defenceman Tyler Myers, are not on the club’s two-game road trip, which gets started tonight and concludes in Colorado on Thursday.

Myers was injured during the Canucks’ loss to the Seattle Kraken last week, and has been day-to-day ever since. His absence has forced the Canucks to deploy Victor Mancini on the top pairing alongside Quinn Hughes, which has led to mixed results.

Up front, Elias Pettersson exited with an apparent upper-body injury during the Canucks’ loss to the New York Rangers back on March 22nd. He and Nils Höglander flew home, missing the remainder of the road trip. While Höglander returned against the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday, Pettersson still isn’t yet ready to play.

Any time injuries keep players out of the lineup this late into the season, you have to wonder if we’ve seen the last of them for the current campaign. If that’s indeed the case, Pettersson wraps 2024-25 — the first season of his new eight-year deal — with career-lows in goals, assists, and points (excluding the 2020-21 season, when he appeared in just 26 games).

For Chytil, the 25-year-old tallied two goals and four assists through 15 games with the Canucks following his trade from the New York Rangers in the deal that sent JT Miller to the Big Apple. Chytil has a long history with concussions, and it would be the least bit surprising if he didn’t return this season. We dove into Chytil’s concussion history last week, and you can read that article by clicking here.

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