Projected Lineups for the Canucks vs Utah HC – 12/18/24

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Utah Hockey Club tonight at the Delta Center. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

CANUCKS (16-9-5) at UTAH (14-11-5)

10:00 p.m. ET; SNP, SN1, TVAS, Utah16

Canucks projected lineup

Conor Garland — J.T. Miller — Brock Boeser
Jake DeBrusk — Elias Pettersson — Max Sasson
Danton Heinen — Pius Suter — Kiefer Sherwood
Dakota Joshua — Teddy Blueger — Nils Hoglander

Quinn Hughes — Noah Juulsen
Carson Soucy — Tyler Myers
Erik Brannstrom — Vincent Desharnais

Thatcher Demko
Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Derek Forbort, Linus Karlsson, Phil Di Giuseppe

Injured: Filip Hronek (upper body)

Status report

The Canucks assigned goaltender Arturs Silovs and defenseman Mark Friedman to Abbotsford of the American Hockey League on Tuesday. Forwards Karlsson and Di Giuseppe were recalled from Abbotsford on Tuesday. … Canucks coach Rick Tocchet said Forbort will not play tonight against Utah but the defenseman “could possibly [play] tomorrow,” at the Vegas Golden Knights.

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Utah projected lineup

Clayton Keller — Barrett Hayton — Nick Schmaltz
Jack McBain — Logan Cooley — Dylan Guenther
Lawson Crouse — Nick Bjugstad — Matias Maccelli
Alexander Kerfoot — Kevin Stenlund — Michael Carcone

Mikhail Sergachev — Olli Maatta
Ian Cole — Michael Kesselring
Juuso Valimaki — Vladislav Kolyachonok

Karel Vejmelka
Jaxson Stauber

Scratched: Liam O’Brien, Dakota Mermis

Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body), Maveric Lamoureux (undisclosed), Sean Durzi (upper body), John Marino (upper body)

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