Projected Lineups for the Canucks vs Blue Jackets – 3/28/25

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

CANUCKS (34-26-12) at BLUE JACKETS (32-29-9)

7 p.m. ET; FDSNOH, SNP

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk — Pius Suter — Brock Boeser
Drew O’Connor — Teddy Blueger — Conor Garland
Dakota Joshua — Aatu Raty — Kiefer Sherwood
Linus Karlsson — Nils Aman — Jonathan Lekkerimaki

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

Kevin Lankinen
Thatcher Demko

Scratched: Victor Mancini, Arturs Silovs, Max Sasson

Injured: Filip Chytil (concussion), Noah Juulsen (lower body), Elias Pettersson (undisclosed), Nils Hoglander (undisclosed)

Status report:

Sasson, a forward, was recalled from Abbotsford of the American Hockey League on Friday

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Blue Jackets projected lineup

Dmitri Voronkov — Sean Monahan — Kirill Marchenko
Boone Jenner — Adam Fantilli — Kent Johnson
Cole Sillinger — Justin Danforth — Mathieu Olivier
Zach Aston-Reese — Sean Kuraly — Luke Kunin

Zach Werenski — Dante Fabbro
Ivan Provorov — Damon Severson
Denton Mateychuk — Erik Gudbranson

Elvis Merzlikins
Daniil Tarasov

Scratched: Jordan Harris, Jack Johnson, Christian Fischer, Yegor Chinakhov, James van Riemsdyk, Jack Williams, Jake Christiansen

Injured: None

Status report:

Sillinger returns after missing 11 games because of an upper-body injury. … Van Riemsdyk, a forward, comes out.

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