Projected Lineups for the Canucks vs Golden Knights – 4/16/25 - The Hockey Writers -

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

GOLDEN KNIGHTS (49-22-10) at CANUCKS (38-29-14)

10 p.m. ET; SN360, SNP, TNT, truTV, MAX

Golden Knights projected lineup

Brandon Saad –Tomas Hertl — Pavel Dorofeyev
Reilly Smith — William Karlsson — Victor Olofsson
Ivan Barbashev — Nicolas Roy — Keegan Kolesar
Tanner Pearson — Brett Howden — Alexander Holtz

Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore
Nicolas Hague — Zach Whitecloud
Ben Hutton — Kaedan Korczak

Akira Schmid
Ilya Samsonov

Scratched: Jack Eichel, Mark Stone, Cole Schwindt, Jonas Rondbjerg, Alex Pietrangelo, Noah Hanifin, Adin Hill

Injured: None

Status report:

The Golden Knights did not hold a morning skate following a 5-4 shootout loss at the Calgary Flames on Tuesday, so it’s unclear if any of the players who were rested will return for their regular-season finale; the list could include Hill, a goalie, Stone, a forward, Eichel, a center, and defensemen Pietrangelo and Hanifin

Latest for THW:

Canucks projected lineup

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

Quinn Hughes — Elias Nils Pettersson
Marcus Pettersson — Filip Hronek
Derek Forbort — Victor Mancini

Kevin Lankinen
Nikita Tolopilo

Scratched: Ty Mueller

Injured: Thatcher Demko (illness), Tyler Myers (shoulder), Filip Chytil (concussion), Noah Juulsen (lower body), Elias Pettersson (upper body), Nils Aman (upper body)

Status Report:

Sasson skated Wednesday after missing two games with an undisclosed injury and appears set to return in place of Mueller, a forward, on the second line.