The Vancouver Canucks will be without goaltender Thatcher Demko for the rest of the season.

On Tuesday morning, the club announced that their starting goaltender would miss the rest of the 2025-26 campaign and will undergo hip surgery.

“After consulting with our team doctors and outside specialists, Thatcher Demko will be shut down for the rest of the year,” said GM Patrik Allvin in a statement put out by the team. “Thatcher will undergo surgery next week for an injury unrelated to the one that kept him out of action last season. Following his rehab, he will be ready for the start of training camp in September.”

Demko, who turned 30 just last month, last played for the Canucks on January 10th, when he exited after the first period against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

This is yet another line in the growing list of injuries Demko, who the Canucks extended on a three-year deal last offseason, has suffered in his young career. It’s also not the first time he’s undergone hip surgery, either.

The season after the Canucks drafted him, when he was a sophomore at Boston College and put up an eye-popping .925 save percentage, Demko underwent surgery on both hips. As chronicled by the late Jason Botchford, Demko had been playing through the hip injury for four seasons, and by the time he had surgery in 2015, Demko had zero degrees of internal rotation in his hips.

Demko missed most of the 2024-25 season with a knee injury that he suffered in the dying moments of the Canucks’ Game 1 matchup in the first round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Nashville Predators. Demko suffered multiple setbacks in his recovery from that injury, and opened about the frustrations around that injury. Demko has had multiple IR stints since that knee injury as well.

With Demko out, the Canucks will rely on Kevin Lankinen, Nikita Tolopilo, and Jiri Patera between the pipes down the final stretch of the season as they hunt down a high draft positioning with hopes of landing one of Ivar Stenberg or Gavin McKenna. As Allvin mentioned in the statement, the Canucks are anticipating that Demko will be ready for training camp in September.