The Vancouver Canucks’ 2024 calendar year stats, and what they say about the team

Welcome to Vancouver Canucks hockey…in the Year 2025!

That really does still sound like a made-up sci-fi concept, and in keeping with that, we’re going to avoid the topic of the current year altogether for this article and instead try a little more living in the past.

The calendar year 2024 was a significant one for the Canucks. It marked the return of the team to the NHL postseason, it marked the first Norris Trophy win in franchise history, and it brought countless new players into the franchise.

All too often in hockey, we focus exclusively on seasons. But years matter, too. With that in mind, we put together a rundown of the Canucks’ team and individual stats from January 1, 2024, right through to December 31, 2024…and we’ve got plenty of additional commentary to add beyond that.

Note: We’ve decided that the playoffs are a different beast entirely, and so this article will focus solely on regular season results. No postseason stats have been included.

With that said, let’s begin this review in year now.

The Vancouver Canucks in 2024

Honestly, this feels about right.

The Canucks, as a team, enjoyed some real ups and downs throughout 2024. The sum total leaves them in the upper third of the league in terms of actual results, like wins, losses, and special team success rates.

But then the goals for and goals against are both sitting at essentially league-average, and both look like numbers that need to improve before the Canucks can really start making plans for playoff contention.

(Players listed below here in descending order of 2024 point totals)

Quinn Hughes

You had to know Hughes was going to be at the top of this list. 2024 was his year, with him going well over a point-per-game and leading the team in scoring by a ten-point margin. More impressive than that? How about a 23-assist lead on the next Canuck (and a 31-assist lead on number three on the list!)

JT Miller

Miller’s difficulties in the opening half of the 2024/25 season are well-documented, but they really don’t show up on the 2024 statline. Miller led all forwards in goals despite missing 11 games and tied for the team lead in points-per-game with Hughes. This isn’t quite 100+-point pace for Miller, but it’s not as far off as some might think.

 Elias Pettersson

The year 2024 wasn’t Pettersson’s best by any stretch. Most peg his struggles as beginning as of February 2024, and it’s been a long ten months since then. Still, Pettersson manages to walk away from the year as the team’s top goal-scorer with 31 and to fall just six points short of point-per-game status. It’s far from his best, but it’s not nearly as bad as advertised.

Brock Boeser

Despite missing time with that head injury and a few other minor ailments, Boeser still comes out of 2024 with an appropriately symmetrical 30 goals and 30 assists. Over a full 82-game schedule, that does pace him a bit below the 40 goals he achieved over the 2023/24 campaign, but not by much. In an inconsistent year for the team as a whole, Boeser has been Mr. Consistency for the Canucks. 

Conor Garland

Only two Canucks played all 82 regular season games in the year 2024, and Garland was one of them. A near-60-point result is excellent production for Garland’s role and salary, and folks who watched him play can attest that he brings more to the table than just raw point totals. Aside from the core four listed above, Garland was probably the Canucks’ most important skater in 2024.

Pius Suter

It’s a testament to just how hot Suter has been in the early goings of 2024/25 that he makes it this high on the list. But, if one includes his playoff heroics in the opinion, 2024 has been a real banner year for Suter. He’s putting up a 0.5 PPG rate in all sorts of different depth roles and has developed a reputation as a clutch performer. All this in the year that Suter hits UFA!

Teddy Blueger

Blueger was the second Canuck to play in all 82 games, and he, too, was a picture of consistency. The heyday of the Joshua-Blueger-Garland line was as much in 2023 as 2024, so Blueger’s point totals aren’t all that high, but they’re high enough for someone who is ostensibly 4C on the depth chart. Blueger has been and continues to be a terrific investment for the Canucks.

Filip Hronek

Hronek comes in as the second-highest-scoring defender, almost by default, but 2024 was decidedly not his year. The vast majority of his 2023/24 production came in the 2023 half, and just when he appeared to be getting back on track in 2024/25, he suffered a long-term injury (or two). The results here are still fine, but it’s the knowledge that Hronek can perform significantly better that makes his return so exciting.

Jake DeBrusk

The Canucks should have no complaints about the value they’re getting from their biggest signing of the summer. DeBrusk finishes the year with the fifth-highest PPG rating and is well on pace for 30+ goals over a full season. 

Nils Höglander

It’s tough not to feel for Höglander. All but two of these goals and six of these points came in the last three-and-a-half months of the 2023/24 season. That was a great end to a campaign for Höglander, but wow, has it ever transitioned into a disastrous start to 2024/25.

That said, for a full season’s worth of work, the sum total isn’t outright awful. Höglander needs a big 2025 to get his NHL career back on track.

Tyler Myers

Aside from Hughes, Myers has been the only truly consistent feature on the Canucks’ blueline, and he deserves credit for that alone. There have been signs of an offensive renaissance at times, but over any lengthy span, Myers trends back toward the 20-ish-point defender he’s been since arriving in Vancouver.

Dakota Joshua

It hasn’t been the best calendar year for Joshua. His production slowed down a bit as 2023/24 progressed, and then he was diagnosed with cancer this past summer and needed to miss a good chunk of the start of the season while he recovered. He’s since struggled to get his feet back under him, and his numbers have really slipped as a result.

Kiefer Sherwood

It’s pretty exceptional that Sherwood surpassed Joshua’s goal total for the year in 14 fewer games. Sherwood has been nothing short of revelational since joining the Canucks, and there’s nothing more that needs to be said for these numbers at a rate of just $1.5 million.

Danton Heinen

Heinen has always been a streaky player. Although he’s had some cold stretches since signing in Vancouver, the overall results after three months seem fairly reasonable for his role and salary.

Nikita Zadorov

Zadorov made a massive impact on this franchise in just a half-year’s worth of play, but that impact can’t be measured very accurately by stats. Still, it’s worth mentioning that Zadorov had a better PPG rate for the Canucks in 2024 than both Myers and Erik Brännström.

Elias Lindholm

One could look at these results and deem the Lindholm trade a total bust for the Canucks. But then this cuts out the 2024 playoff run, which was far and away from where Lindholm did his best work. In retrospect, we remain split on the deal.

Ilya Mikheyev

If you ever wonder why the Canucks had to pay so much to dump Mikheyev’s contract, just look at these numbers. Then realize that they were obtained with ample opportunity in the top six. It ain’t pretty. 

Sam Lafferty

By the time the calendar flipped over to 2024, Lafferty’s hot start with the Canucks was long since over, and he was back to being a relatively run-of-the-mill fourth-liner with the numbers to match.

Erik Brännström

Brännström has been solid for the Canucks, and certainly well worth the price of acquisition. But these numbers don’t exactly scream “the answer to the Canucks’ puck-moving woes,” which explains why the team hasn’t stopped looking for an upgrade. 

Carson Soucy

Soucy’s value to the team was never going to be found on the scoresheet. His defensive efforts have been up and down throughout 2024, but they’re more up than down of late, and that’s all that really matters for a player like this.

Ian Cole

Many have said that the Canucks miss Cole’s veteran presence this year. And that’s probably true. But they definitely don’t miss his production.

Noah Juulsen

Juulsen closes out our list with 54 games played, a higher number than a player of Juulsen’s calibre should have reasonably been asked to play on a team this competitive. All things considered, he’s handled it adequately.

(We had to stop somewhere, and we decided to call it at Juulsen. The following players also played for the Canucks in 2024 but recorded fewer than six points on the year: Nils Åman, Max Sasson, Phil Di Giuseppe, Aatu Räty, Daniel Sprong, Vincent Desharnais, Derek Forbort, Vasily Podkolzin, Andrei Kuzmenko, Arshdeep Bains, Jonathan Lekkerimäki, Mark Friedman, Linus Karlsson.)

But let’s not forget the goaltenders!

Thatcher Demko

Despite his absences, Demko still finishes the year as the Canucks’ busiest and best goaltender. Demko had the most games played, the most wins, the highest winning percentage, and the highest save percentage. He didn’t earn his Vezina nomination in the 2024 half of 2023/24, but – aside from getting injured – he didn’t do anything to lose it, either.

Kevin Lankinen

We wondered if Lankinen’s record might be closer to Demko’s, but the Canucks’ recent on-ice struggles and Demko’s return ended those chances. Still, it’s important to note that Lankinen has one more shutout and a slightly lower goals-against-average than Demko, all the while playing behind a lower-quality defensive effort than was put forth in the majority of Demko’s 2024 games.

Casey DeSmith

DeSmith escapes his time in Vancouver with a technical .500 record, but more losses than wins and a sub-.900 save-percentage. DeSmith tread water fine enough for the Canucks, but didn’t end up being worth the price paid to acquire him (the necessity of dumping Tanner Pearson’s contract aside.)

Arturs Silovs

In some regards, 2024 was a great year for Silovs. But that’s almost all down to a legendary playoff run. It was not a great regular season year for Silovs, and especially not on the 2024/25 side of the equation. He, too, escapes with a technical .500 record but a downright ugly save percentage. It’s now up to Silovs to rebuild his game in Abbotsford.