The Vancouver Canucks have their final dress rehearsal tonight against the Edmonton Oilers before kicking off their season in less than a week against the Calgary Flames.

While there are still many questions to be answered regarding the Canucks’ roster and who will make the opening night lineup, the betting market appears to have a sense of how Vancouver will perform in 2025-26.

Following a breakout 2023-24 season, the betting markets thought highly of the Canucks, projecting them as one of the favourites to repeat as Pacific Division champions. However, nobody could have expected the injuries and turmoil in the locker room that resulted in the Canucks regressing enough to miss the postseason entirely.

Can the Canucks return to the playoffs? Or will fans see their team miss the postseason for the fifth time in six years? Let’s see what the betting markets think:

Team Stats

Canucks to make the playoffs (+105)

Examining the odds board, the betting market indicates that the Canucks will likely miss the playoffs this season. They have the Vegas Golden Knights, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings, Winnipeg Jets, Utah Mammoth and St. Louis Blues all with better odds of making the postseason.

Canucks regular season points 90.5 (-105)

Following a 109-point 2023-24 season, the Canucks had a regular season point total of 99.5. Heading into this season, they’ve dropped nine points in the projections down to 90.5. As reflected in the odds to make the playoffs, the Canucks have the 10th-highest regular season point total in the Western Conference, trailing only the Blues and Mammoth by two points.

Canucks to win Pacific division (+1400)

As defending Pacific Division champions, Vancouver was given +300 to repeat. However, this season has seen their odds drop substantially to +1400. The betting markets have the Pacific Division as a two-horse race between the Golden Knights (+150) and Oilers (+155). The Kings, who had one of the worst July 1s in the league, have a far better chance to win the division at +425 odds, which makes sense considering they finished second last season.

Canucks to win the Stanley Cup (+5500)

Many believed the Canucks had officially broke out of a hopeful playoff team to a Stanley Cup contender, as they were just +1400 to win the Stanley Cup. However, their missed postseason dropped their odds all the way down to +5500. To put that into perspective, the Blues are one spot ahead of them at +4000, and the Philadelphia Flyers are the one below them at +7500 odds.

Odds courtesy of bet365

Player Stats

Here are the top seven Canucks players’ point and goal projections, according to the betting markets.

Evander Kane – 17.5 goals | 35.5 points

The 34-year-old is far from his prime days, as he was in Winnipeg, Buffalo, and even San Jose. Before missing the entire 2024-25 season due to sports hernia surgery, Kane had 39 points in 43 games, 28 points in 41 games and 44 points in 77 games. The 6’2″ power forward has proven he’s still got the offensive chops to produce, but it’s been his health that has restricted him. However, heading into a contract year and playing in his hometown, Kane should be extra motivated to prove to his new organization that he’s worth an extension.

Filip Chytil – 18.5 goals | 39.5 points

The 2025-26 season presents Chytil’s biggest opportunity yet in the NHL, starting the season as a No. 2 centre. Chytil has only ever reached the 40-point mark in one season – the 2022-23 season, when he scored 22 goals and 45 points in 74 games. But like Kane, it’s not skill that will hold Chytil back; it’s injury. We all know about his concussion history, but if he is to stay healthy and produce in his elevated role, Chytil should smash this line and have a career year.

Jake DeBrusk – 23.5 goals | 45.5 points

Last season, DeBrusk had a betting line of 48.5 points. This was ultimately a fantastic line, as DeBrusk scored 28 goals and 20 assists for 48 points. This season, DeBrusk’s line drops three points to 45.5 – a feat he has surpassed in two of the past three seasons. According to training camp and preseason, DeBrusk is skating on a line with Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser on the top line, and that configuration has not varied much. And if fans believe in a Pettersson bounce-back, it should trickle to his linemates’ success as well.

Conor Garland – 20.5 goals | 53.5 points

Garland has been great since joining the Canucks. However, he has yet to hit either of these projections. In his four seasons in Vancouver, Garland has always finished between the 17-20 goal and 46-52 point mark. One big question mark surrounding Garland heading into the 2025-26 season is where he’s going to play. He skated with Nils Höglander and Teddy Blueger in training camp, but in yesterday’s practice, he skated with Kane and Chytil on the presumed second line. If that’s where he begins the season, and those linemates stay healthy, then Garland could certainly have his best season as a Canuck.

Brock Boeser – 28.5 goals | 58.5 points

Boeser has only eclipsed these projections in the 2023-24 season, where he scored 40 goals and 76 points in 81 games. Last season, the betting markets had Boeser projected to score 32.5 goals and 64.5 points. Even if he played a full 82-game season, Boeser’s 25 goals and 50 points would still have him short of those projections. Now slated to be Pettersson’s running mate, Canucks brass are hoping the two can spark their old chemistry from the early 2020s.

Elias Pettersson – 27.5 goals | 76.5 points

There were high expectations for Pettersson last season, as the betting markets had projected the Swede to score 34.5 goals and 90.5 points. However, a knee injury affected his offseason training, which led to a slow start to the season, and that really didn’t turn around until March. He finished far below last year’s projections, scoring just 15 goals and 45 points. But coming into this season, Pettersson looks dangerous and determined to show Canucks fans that he can bounce-back to the player they remember him to be. Pettersson has surpassed the goal projection in four of his seven seasons and his point totals twice in his career.

Quinn Hughes – 15.5 goals | 84.5 points

There should be no doubt about Quinn’s ability to hit these projections. Hughes exploded onto the scene in 2023-24, where he scored 17 goals and 92 points in 82 games. Had injuries not limited him to just 68 games, Quinn would have smashed last year’s point projection of 84.5 points, as he was on pace to replicate his 92-point season. Hughes has carried the team on his back for the previous two seasons; there’s no reason to expect he can’t surpass this year’s totals with a full bill of health.

Kane, Chytil, Garland, DeBrusk, and Boeser odds courtesy of PlayNow.

Pettersson and Hughes odds courtesy of bet365.

Awards

Here are the five of the Canucks’ odds to win significant hardware this season:

James Norris Trophy – Quinn Hughes (+200) / Hart Trophy – Quinn Hughes (+4000)

Coming off his 2023-24 Norris Trophy campaign, Hughes was given +700 odds to repeat. And he very well could have had he not missed 14 games. In fact, he was so dominant that many started to give him Hart Trophy consideration. This season, the betting markets view the Norris Trophy as a two-horse race between Cale Makar and Hughes. The two defencemen are the only two blueliners with under +1000 odds.

It’s much more of a long shot for Hughes to win the Hart Trophy at +4000 odds. However, suppose it’s a repeat of last season, where Pettersson can’t find his game and Hughes leads the team in points and into the playoffs. If that’s the case, the Canucks captain should be viewed as one of the most valuable players to his team across the league – if he isn’t viewed as that already.

Jack Adams – Adam Foote (+2500)

The Jack Adams Award typically goes to the coach who turns around a struggling organization and brings them to the postseason. Well, after Rick Tocchet won the award in 2023-24, and the Canucks missed the playoffs last year, they fall into that category this season – especially for first-year Head Coach Adam Foote. However, Foote has a few other coaches who are in the same situation with better odds to win the award: Andre Tourigny (Utah Mammoth), Joel Quenneville (Anaheim Ducks), Dean Evason (Columbus Blue Jackets), Mike Sullivan (New York Rangers), and Todd McLellan (Detroit Red Wings).

Vezina Trophy – Thatcher Demko (+4000)

These odds seem a little disrespectful for a goaltender who finished runner-up for the award just two seasons ago. By all accounts, it appears Demko is fully healthy heading into the 2025-26 campaign. He will need to stay healthy to earn consideration this season, but with the best defence corps to start the year he’s had in his career, Demko has extreme value on this line. However, with the coaching staff likely managing his starts, especially with a quality 1B in Kevin Lankinen behind him, he may not play enough games to garner votes for the trophy.

Calder Trophy – Jonathan Lekkerimäki (+5000)

Now, this is a long shot. However, with the Höglander injury, Lekkerimäki has a chance at making the opening night roster. And if he can continue to play as he has in the preseason, Lekkerimäki could carve out a role at the NHL level. He’ll need to fit in the top six to get any consideration. But if you read into the Canucks’ training camp lines, they had Höglander with Blueger and Garland on the presumed third line and Lekkerimäki in the top six with Kane and Chytil. So, there’s an even clearer path for the 21-year-old to take this opportunity and run with it. However, the betting markets have Ivan Demidov as a runaway favourite at +180 odds.

What do you think, Canucks fans? Do you think the betting markets are being fair to the Canucks and their player projections? Will they go over or under those totals? Let us know in the comments below!

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