A total of 46 players that once wore a Vancouver Canucks sweater put on the uniform of another team in the 2024-25 season. Of these, 42 were skaters and another four were goaltenders. The forwards and defencemen accumulated a total of 667 points, while the goalies amassed 44 wins.
Following a similar exercise from yesterday, let’s look around the league and do a check up on how the other 34 former Canucks are doing:
Top Scorers
Jared McCann (Seattle Kraken)
2024-25 Stats: 82 GP, 22G, 30A, 61P
Stats with the Canucks: 69 GP, 9G, 9A, 18P
One of the two former Canucks who led their team in points this season. 2024-2025 was a step back offensively for McCann, continuing his downward trend since scoring 40 goals and 70 points in 2022-23.
Bo Horvat (New York Islanders)
2024-25 Stats: 81 GP, 28G, 29A, 57P
Stats with the Canucks: 621 GP, 201G, 219A, 420P
The Canucks’ former Captain took a big step back on the scoresheet this year but still lead the Islanders in points. He would have been the highest scoring forward on the Canucks and would tie Jake DeBrusk for team lead in goals, had he remained in Vancouver.
Tyler Toffoli (San Jose Sharks)
2024-25 Stats: 78 GP, 30G, 24A, 54P
Stats with the Canucks: 10 GP, 6G, 4A, 10P
The one-time deadline rental has bounced around the league since the Canucks’ chose not to re-sign him in 2020; he’s playing for his fifth team in five seasons. Still a potent goal scorer, Toffoli’s poor plus/minus rating is not that bad when taken into the context of how bad the rest of the Sharks are.
Recent Former Friends
We included most of the recent former friends yesterday. Click here to get an update on the other 13 players!
Carson Soucy (New York Rangers)
2024-25 Stats: 16 GP, 1G, 2A, 3P
Stats with the Canucks: 99 GP, 5G, 11A, 16P
Soucy’s drop-off this season is one of the more baffling things to have happened. Last season, he stabilized his pairing and formed an effective shut-down unit with Tyler Myers. Soucy’s poor play sank whoever he was paired with. Along with the emergence of Elias Pettersson (D), Soucy quickly became expendable – and reports of his play with the Rangers paint the same picture.
Andrew Kuzmenko (Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers, & Los Angeles Kings)
2024-25 Stats: 66 GP, 11G, 26A, 37P
Stats with the Canucks: 124 GP, 47G, 48A, 95P
After finding success early in Calgary, Kuzmenko struggled with stronger system play this season. He was later traded to the Flyers, where he scored five points in seven games. He’s now found a good home with the Kings. Given how his career has gone and how big his personality is, it’s a joy to watch him thrive in the playoffs.
Bouncing Back
Tanner Pearson (Vegas Golden Knights)
2024-25 Stats: 78 GP, 12G, 15A, 27P
Stats with the Canucks: 221 GP, 55G, 59A, 114P
Awesome! Finally Pearson has fully recovered from a horrific wrist injury, and on a team that utilizes him correctly, Pearson has revitalized his career. He’s played a third-line role with the Golden Knights and has been a solid secondary contributor during their current playoff run.
Adam Gaudette (Ottawa Senators)
2024-25 Stats: 81 GP, 19G, 7A, 26P
Stats with the Canucks: 153 GP, 21G, 31A, 52P
Gaudette’s goal scoring to begin the 2024-25 season was incredible but inflated by an unsustainable shooting percentage. He managed to play the entire season. Reuniting with former Canucks’ coach Travis Green was the perfect planetary alignment for him.
Anthony Beauvillier (Pittsburgh Penguins & Washington Capitals)
2024-25 Stats: 81 GP, 15G, 10A, 25P
Stats with the Canucks: 55 GP, 11G, 17A, 28P
A streaky scorer his entire career, Beauvillier did well enough in Pittsburgh to warrant a second-round pick from the Capitals at the trade deadline. He went a little cold after arriving in Washington, but is back to his old playoff-scoring tricks, as he’s currently enjoying top-line time with Alex Ovechkin and Dylan Strome.
Defencemen of Ages Past
Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Toronto Maple Leafs)
2024-25 Stats: 77 GP, 4G, 25A, 29P
Stats with the Canucks: 133 GP, 7G, 44A, 51P
The Oliver Ekman-Larsson career resurgence continues. After a solid bounce-back season as a key contributor to a Stanley Cup-winning team, his play has not dropped off. If anything, the one they call OEL has been even more valuable to an inconsistent Maple Leafs’ defensive group.
Nate Schmidt (Florida Panthers)
2024-25 Stats: 80 GP, 5G, 14A, 19P
Stats with the Canucks: 54 GP, 5G, 10A, 15P
Like OEL before him, Schmidt is trying to revive his career in sunny Florida. While not as vital as Ekman-Larsson was, Schmidt has provided solid two-way play as a fourth defender. Not known for his goal-scoring ability, Schmidt has three goals (and one assist) across his first six playoff games with the Panthers.
Jalen Chatfield (Carolina Hurricanes)
2024-25 Stats: 79 GP, 7G, 11A, 18P
Stats with the Canucks: 18 GP, 0G, 1A, 1P
A lot of ink has been spilled about Chatfield’s climb from undrafted free agent signee to steady NHLer. He brings a hard style focused on making the smart play and taking a beating. After signing a life-changing contract, he’s continued his role with the Hurricanes while providing his normal production.
Chris Tanev (Toronto Maple Leafs)
2024-25 Stats: 75 GP, 3G, 15A, 18P
Stats with the Canucks: 514 GP, 22G, 96A, 118P
It’s been six full seasons since Chris Tanev last played for the Canucks. Yet, he’s still as loved now as he was back then. He was remarkably healthy this season and led the Maple Leafs in penalty killing minutes and blocked shots.
Luke Schenn (Nashville Predators & Winnipeg Jets)
2024-25 Stats: 76 GP, 1G, 6A, 7P
Stats with the Canucks: 139 GP, 8G, 32A, 40P
After reviving his career in Vancouver and getting traded back to the city where he started his career (Toronto Maple Leafs), Schenn signed a three-year contract with the Predators, only to get moved back to Canada, joining the Jets for their playoff run. Before his time in Winnipeg, Schenn had a brief stopover in Pittsburgh this season, but the rugged rearguard didn’t suit up for any game action for the Penguins.
Erik Gudbranson (Columbus Blue Jackets)
2024-25 Stats: 16 GP, 0G, 4A, 4P
Stats with the Canucks: 139 GP, 5G, 14A, 19P
Gudbranson and Schenn played the same amount of games for the Vancouver Canucks, with Gudbranson managing under half as many points as Schenn in the blue and green. After bouncing around, he parlayed a solid season as a third-pairing defenceman for the Calgary Flames into a shocking four-year contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Heading into the final year of his deal, Gudbranson has carved out a niche as a respected veteran in Columbus.
Bottom-6 Role Players
Jason Dickinson (Chicago Blackhawks)
2024-25 Stats: 57 GP, 7G, 9A, 16P
Stats with the Canucks: 62 GP, 5G, 6A, 11P
Jason Dickinson parlayed a 22-goal campaign last season into a two-year, $9.5 million contract, which immediately went sour. Dickinson was just plain bad this season. Seemingly channelling his failures into a singular moment, he hit Filip Chytil from behind with a nasty cheapshot that ended Chytil’s season. Dickinson would not step foot on the ice for the remainder of the game.
Tyler Motte (Detroit Red Wings)
2024-25 Stats: 55 GP 4G, 5A, 9P
Stats with the Canucks: 196 GP, 28G, 22A, 50P
Somewhat of a minor folk hero in Vancouver, Motte’s injury issues continue. He’s still valued enough around the league to remain on NHL rosters. It’s a shame his body can’t handle the style he needs to play to be effective.
Justin Dowling (New Jersey Devils)
2024-25 Stats: 52 GP, 2G, 5A, 7P
Stats with the Canucks: 22 GP, 2G, 2A, 4P
The 2024-25 season represented a career high in games played and points. Over a third of his entire career games came in this past season. He’s even played a regular role in the Devils playoff run. He’s also their second-lowest scoring regular forward.
Spare Forwards
Jimmy Vesey (New York Rangers & Colorado Avalanche)
2024-25 Stats: 43GP, 5G, 3A, 8P
Stats with the Canucks: 20 GP, 0G, 3A, 3P
In 2020-21, Jimmy Vesey played some of the most uninspired hockey any Canucks fan has ever seen. He was better the season afterwards, but you’d think his career would have almost been over despite his relative youth. Following those two moribund seasons, he returned to where he started his hockey career and was once again a productive bottom-six producer. That couldn’t be replicated this season and was a frequent healthy scratch before being traded to Colorado. With the Avalanche, it wasn’t much different, as he would play just 10 regular season games and zero in their opening-round loss to the Dallas Stars.
Matthew Highmore (Ottawa Senators)
2024-25 Stats: 41 GP, 2G, 4A, 6P
Stats with the Canucks: 64 GP, 8G, 9A, 17P
Highmore has bounced between the AHL and NHL. Being reunited with his old head coach in Vancouver, Travis Green, has certainly helped him re-find his footing. You’ll get some speed and physicality with him, but little offensive output.
Curtis Lazar (New Jersey Devils)
2024-25 Stats: 48 GP, 2G, 3A, 5P
Stats with the Canucks: 45 GP, 3G, 2A, 5P
The local boy, much like Danton Heinen, didn’t last a full season with the team he grew up cheering for. His production was around where one would expect it to be, but he was ineffective and spent most games as an afterthought. Lazar had a career year with the Devils last season but his stats are eerily similar to his time with the Canucks this year.
Jonah Gadjovich (Florida Panthers)
2024-25 Stats: 42 GP, 4G, 0A, 4P
Stats with the Canucks: 1 GP, 0G, 0A, 0P
While Gadjovich only played one game as a Canuck, he managed to rack up 17 penalty minutes. That one game was a good indication of how his career would go. Through 160 NHL games, he has 312 penalty minutes. He has his name engraved on the Stanley Cup after hoisting the trophy with the Panthers last season, and no one can ever take that away from him.
Extra Defencemen
Troy Stecher (Edmonton Oilers)
2024-25 Stats: 66 GP, 3G, 4A, 7P
Stats with the Canucks: 286 GP, 11G, 64A, 75P
After bouncing around as a part-time player, Troy from Richmond was a regular on the Oilers’ blueline this season. With the additions of John Klingberg and Jake Walman last in the season, Stecher has been more used in a seventh defenceman role.
Travis Hamonic (Ottawa Senators)
2024-25 Stats: 59 GP, 1G, 6A, 7P
Stats with the Canucks: 62 GP, 6G, 11A, 17P
Hamonic has alternated between injured and seventh defenceman status for the last two seasons. He’s been passed on the depth chart by several younger options. This may be the end of the veteran’s NHL career.
Kyle Burroughs (Los Angeles Kings)
2024-25 Stats: 33 GP, 0G, 3A, 3P
Stats with the Canucks: 90 GP, 3G, 7A, 10P
The Vancouverite had a career season in 2023-24; setting career highs in almost every statistical category. Unfortunately, that included his plus/minus rating, set at an ugly minus-42. Sent off to Los Angeles in the offseason, he’s been relegated to a spare part.
Ben Hutton (Vegas Golden Knights)
2024-25 Stats: 11 GP, 0G, 2A, 2P
Stats with the Canucks: 276 GP, 11G, 59A, 70P
Both of Hutton’s points came against the Canucks in the last game of the season. Thanks, Ben. Apologies, that should be Stanley Cup winner, Ben Hutton.
The Call-Ups
Zach MacEwen (Ottawa Senators)
2024-25 Stats: 21 GP, 2G, 1A, 3P
Stats with the Canucks: 55 GP, 6G, 3A, 9P
Like Jonah Gadjovich, MacEwen’s role in the NHL is to be the tough guy. He hasn’t been quite as successful at it, however. After a full 2021-2022 season in Philadelphia, he’s bounced around the league. Like Gaudette and Highmore, he’s landed in Ottawa to play with his former coach.
Joseph Labate (Columbus Blue Jackets)
2024-25 Stats: 6 GP, 0G, 1A, 1P
Stats with the Canucks: 13 GP, 0G, 0A, 0P
The last time Labate appeared in the NHL was in the 2016-17 season. Over those seven seasons, he played for five different teams in three countries. He was drafted by the Canucks in 2011. This is a man who made it to the NHL this season through sheer stick-to-itiveness.
Brendan Gaunce (Minnesota Wild)
2024-25 Stats: 12 GP, 0G, 1A, 1P
Stats with the Canucks: 117 GP, 6G, 9A, 15P
The former first-round pick is still chugging along. Apart from the 2020-21 season, he’s appeared in every NHL season since his debut in 2015-16. Slow and steady has always described Gaunce, and that continues today.
Riley Stillman (Carolina Hurricanes)
2024-25 Stats: 5 GP 0G, 0A, 0P
Stats with the Canucks: 32 GP, 0G, 5A, 5P
There’s just not much to say about Stillman. Over the last two seasons, he’s spent more time in the AHL than the NHL and hasn’t been particularly effective at that level either.
Travis Dermott (Minnesota Wild & Edmonton Oilers)
Alas, what could have been. Dermott joins a long list of players who’ve had their careers derailed by concussions. Thankfully, he’s been mostly healthy the last two seasons. This season’s journey between Edmonton and Minnesota has been silly; signing with the Oilers in the offseason, waived and picked up by the Wild, and then waived by the Wild only to be claimed by the Oilers.
Travis Boyd (Minnesota Wild)
In the cheapest seasons of the Coyotes, Boyd was their number one centre. Last season, he was primarily utilized as a 13th forward. This season, the Minnesota native returned home but spent the vast majority of the time in Iowa.
Goaltenders
Jacob Markstrom (New Jersey Devils)
2024-25 Stats: 49 GP, 26-16-6 record, 2.50 GAA, 0.900 SV%
Stats with the Canucks: 229 GP, 99-93-27 record, 2.73 GAA, 0.913 SV%
Markstrom was part of a remarkable run of consistency in Canucks starting goaltenders. There’s a through-line of Roberto Luongo to Ryan Miller to Jacob Markstrom to Thatcher Demko. He was excellent in Vancouver and Calgary and has brought steady goaltending to New Jersey – they needed him to.
Last season, the Devils were sunk by poor goaltending and much of their turnaround this year can be attributed to having someone actually capable of stopping pucks.
Spencer Martin (Carolina Hurricanes)
2024-25 Stats: 9 GP, 3-4-1 record, 3.89 GAA, 0.846 SV%
Stats with the Canucks: 35 GP, 14-15-4 record, 3.56 GAA, 0.887 SV%
Martin’s first season as a Canuck was a huge success and earned him his first one-way contract. His second season was horrid, however. He ended up bouncing between the Hurricanes and Blue Jackets afterwards and provided competent enough goaltending depth for the Hurricanes to keep him around.
Louis Domingue (New York Rangers)
2024-25 Stats: 1 GP, 1-0-0 record, 2.00 GAA, 0.926 SV%
Stats with the Canucks: 1 GP, 0-1-0 record, 4.08 GAA, 0.882 SV%
Remember Louis Domingue’s only game as a Canuck? It was a 5-3 loss to the Blue Jackets on March 1, 2020.
He ended up spending the playoff bubble with the Canucks and served as their third goaltender.
Hopefully, you enjoyed this trip down memory lane. While a good amount of former Canucks are still in the NHL, apart from a few, they haven’t made much of an impact. With the way this offseason is shaping up, there will be a few more to add to this list at the end of next season.
