Projected Lineups for Canucks vs Kings – 2/26/25

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Los Angeles Kings tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

CANUCKS (26-20-11) at KINGS (31-17-7)

10 p.m. ET; MAX, truTV, TNT, SN

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk — Elias Pettersson — Nils Hoglander
Dakota Joshua — Filip Chytil — Conor Garland
Drew O’Connor — Pius Suter — Brock Boeser
Arshdeep Bains — Teddy Blueger — Kiefer Sherwood

Quinn Hughes — Filip Hronek
Marcus Pettersson — Tyler Myers
Elias Nils Pettersson — Derek Forbort

Kevin Lankinen
Arturs Silovs

Scratched: Carson Soucy, Nils Aman, Victor Mancini

Injured: Thatcher Demko (lower body), Noah Juulsen (lower body)

Status report:

Hughes is a game-time decision after missing six games because of an undisclosed injury; if he cannot play, Forbort likely would play on the first pair with Hronek. … The Canucks made changes to their lines in practice Monday, including moving Hoglander up to the first line and Hronek to the fourth line.

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Kings projected lineup

Alex Turcotte — Anze Kopitar — Adrian Kempe
Warren Foegele — Phillip Danault — Trevor Moore
Kevin Fiala — Quinton Byfield — Alex Laferriere
Tanner Jeannot — Trevor Lewis

Mikey Anderson — Vladislav Gavrikov
Joel Edmundson — Drew Doughty
Jacob Moverare — Jordan Spence
Brandt Clarke

David Rittich
Darcy Kuemper

Scratched: Kyle Burroughs, Akil Thomas

Injured: None

Status report:

Hughes is a game-time decision after missing six games because of an undisclosed injury; if he cannot play, Forbort likely would play on the first pair with Hronek. … The Canucks made changes to their lines in practice Monday, including moving Hoglander up to the first line and Hronek to the fourth line.

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