Projected Lineups for Canucks vs Kings – 11/7/24 – Hockey Writers – Projected Lineups

The Vancouver Canucks will face the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena. Here are the projected/expected lineups obtained from NHL.com staff writers, freelance writers, and others.

10:30 p.m. ET; FDSNW, SNP

The Canucks propose a plan

Jake DeBrusk – JT Miller – Brock Boeser
Pius Suter – Elias Pettersson – Conor Garland
Danton Heinen – Teddy Blueger – Kiefer Sherwood
Nils Hoglander – Aatu Raty – Daniel Sprong

Quinn Hughes – Filip Hronek
Carson Soucy – Tyler Myers
Erik Brannstrom – Vincent Desharnais

Kevin Lankinen
Arturs Silovs

Scratched: Noah Juulsen

Injured: Derek Forbort (lower body), Thatcher Demko (lower body), Dakota Joshua (testicular cancer recovery)

Status report

• Forbort, defender, week to week.
• Demko played a limited role in practice on Wednesday, but there was no update on when the goaltender could make his season debut.

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Proposed kings

Kevin Fiala – Anze Kopitar – Adrian Kempe
Akil Thomas – Phillip Danault – Trevor Moore
Warren Foegele – Quinton Byfield – Alex Laferriere
Andre Lee – Trevor Lewis – Tanner Jeannot

Mike Anderson – Jordan Spence
Joel Edmundson – Brandt Clarke
Vladislav Gavrikov – Kyle Burroughs

Darcy Kuemper
David Rittich

Scratched: Andreas Englund, Caleb Jones

Injured: Alex Turcotte (upper body), Drew Doughty (ankle), Arthur Kaliyev (clavicle)

Status report

• Turcotte, a forward, is day-to-day after walking in the second half of Monday's 3-0 win over the Nashville Predators; Kings coach Jim Hiller said Turcotte's injury was not a head injury or related to any previous concussions.
• Kaliyev, a forward, has started training on the ice but will have a long recovery process after suffering an injury early in training camp. … Fiala will sit in the starting lineup with Kopitar and Kempe after being promoted to the starting lineup in Tuesday's 5-1 win over the Minnesota Wild.

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