Vancouver Canucks at Edmonton Oilers

EDM controlled play at 5v5 last season, 51.0% of the expected goals to 43.2%; EDM's power play ran at 30.5% against a VAN kill at 71.5%.

In goal, neither team has named a starter. Last season Tristan Jarry (EDM) saved -23.1 goals above expected to Kevin Lankinen's -44.4, on save percentages of 0.882 and 0.875.

None of that is the model read. This is a rating-and-home-ice forecast; the full prediction — confirmed goalies, rest and form, priced against the market — publishes inside the seven days before puck drop and replaces these numbers. Edmonton Oilers over Vancouver Canucks is where it starts, not where it ends.

Best posted price per side across 10 books, taken Sep 17. The percentages beside them are what those prices imply with the book’s margin removed.

Total 6.5 · over -108 at FanDuel · under +100 at DraftKings. No lean either way: the preseason forecast has no goal model, so the model’s total publishes with the slate.

This is a rating forecast against a posted price, not a bet. No stake is sized and nothing here enters the graded ledger. The full model read publishes inside seven days of puck drop and replaces these numbers.

No starter is named this far out. These are each side’s projected starters on the current roster, with last season’s numbers.

VAN

Kevin Lankinen

SV%

0.875

GSAx

-44.4

GAA

3.70

Record

11-27-5

47 games, 2025-26

EDM

Tristan Jarry

SV%

0.882

GSAx

-23.1

GAA

3.32

Record

18-9-3

33 games, 2025-26