Overview
- Vancouver assigned defencemen Victor Mancini and Tom Willander to AHL Abbotsford on Sunday.
- The moves leave the club at the NHL maximum of 23 players ahead of Monday’s 2 p.m. PDT roster deadline, with Nils Höglander on injured reserve.
- Eighteen-year-old Braeden Cootes made the opening-night roster, becoming the first Canucks 18-year-old to do so since Petr Nedved in 1990.
- Jonathan Lekkerimäki likely secured his place after a two-goal performance in the preseason finale against Edmonton.
- Vancouver kept waiver-risk forwards Arshdeep Bains and Linus Karlsson on the roster, and Thatcher Demko and Kevin Lankinen are listed as the opening-night goaltenders.