Who is favoured, Anaheim Ducks or Vancouver Canucks?

Anaheim Ducks, at 55.3% in PuckCast's preseason forecast. That is a rating-based forecast; the full model read, with goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of puck drop.

What is a preseason forecast?

A win probability from each team's regressed preseason rating and home ice, the same ratings behind the 2026-27 projected standings. Those ratings are calibrated at the season level, for standings and playoff odds; this single-game percentage is a plain rating formula and has not been graded on its own yet. It is deliberately unsure about any single game, and the confidence grade says how far it leans.

When does the real prediction publish?

Inside the seven-day window before the game. The model re-scores it on every refresh until puck drop, with the confirmed starting goalies, and this page shows that read instead of the forecast.

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2026-27 forecast · Sat, Mar 27, 4:00 PM ET

Anaheim DucksANA

94 proj. pts · 53.3% playoffs

Lukas Dostal · 0.888 SV%

Bvs4:00 PM ET

Vancouver CanucksVAN

80 proj. pts · 21.8% playoffs

A preseason forecast from each team's regressed rating and home ice, the ratings behind the projected standings. The full model read, with the starting goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of the game and replaces this page’s numbers. How the model works

The read

Preseason ratings · last season’s record

ANA controlled play at 5v5 last season, 51.0% of the expected goals to 43.2%; ANA's power play ran at 20.2% against a VAN kill at 71.5%.

In goal, neither team has named a starter. Last season Lukas Dostal (ANA) saved -32.8 goals above expected to Kevin Lankinen's -44.4, on save percentages of 0.888 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. Anaheim Ducks over Vancouver Canucks is where it starts, not where it ends.

In goal

goalie board

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

ANA

Lukas Dostal

SV%: 0.888
GSAx: -32.8
GAA: 3.10
Record: 30-20-4

56 games, 2025-26

VAN

Kevin Lankinen

SV%: 0.875
GSAx: -44.4
GAA: 3.70
Record: 11-27-5

47 games, 2025-26

ANA	Metric	VAN
51.0%	xGF% (5v5)	43.2%
52.4%	Shot share	46.5%
3.2	Goals for / game	2.6
3.5	Goals against / game	3.8
20.2%	Power play	21.8%
75.6%	Penalty kill	71.5%
47.8%	Faceoffs	49.3%

Who drives it

2026-27 projected points

Anaheim Ducks

Player	Pos	G	A	Pts
Cutter Gauthier	L	34	29	63
Leo Carlsson	C	25	34	60
Beckett Sennecke	R	21	34	55
Troy Terry	R	19	33	51

Vancouver Canucks

Player	Pos	G	A	Pts
Elias Pettersson	C	23	42	65

Last season, head to head

ledger

Date	Game	Pick	Score	Result
2026-04-12	VAN @ ANA	ANA	VAN 4–3 ANA	Missed
2026-03-24	ANA @ VAN	ANA	ANA 5–3 VAN	Correct
2026-01-29	ANA @ VAN	ANA	ANA 0–2 VAN	Missed
2025-11-26	VAN @ ANA	ANA	VAN 5–4 ANA	Missed

Season outlook

projected standings

Team	Proj. points	Playoff odds
Anaheim Ducks	94	53.3%
Vancouver Canucks	80	21.8%