Projected Lineups for the Canucks vs Stars – 04/08/25

The Vancouver Canucks visit the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others. 

CANUCKS (35-29-13) at STARS (50-22-5)

8 p.m. ET; Victory+, SNP

Canucks Projected Lineup

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

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

Thatcher Demko
Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: None

Injured: Nils Aman (undisclosed), Filip Chytil (concussion), Noah Juulsen (lower body), Tyler Myers (undisclosed), Elias Pettersson (upper body)

Status Report: 

The Canucks reassigned forward Jonathan Lekkerimaki to Abbotsford of the American Hockey League on Tuesday.

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Stars Projected Lineup

Jason Robertson — Roope Hintz — Mikko Rantanen
Mason Marchment — Matt Duchene — Mikael Granlund
Jamie Benn — Wyatt Johnston — Mavrik Bourque
Evgenii Dadonov — Sam Steel — Colin Blackwell

Thomas Harley — Ilya Lyubushkin
Esa Lindell — Cody Ceci
Lian Bichsel — Matt Dumba

Casey DeSmith
Jake Oettinger

Scratched: Oscar Back, Brendan Smith

Injured: Miro Heiskanen (knee), Nils Lundkvist (shoulder), Tyler Seguin (hip)

Status Report: 

Stars coach Pete DeBoer said there will be a game-time decision among the forward group; if a forward cannot dress, Back is expected to dress and take a spot on the fourth line.

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