NHL Betting Preview: Canucks vs Rangers

The Vancouver Canucks meet the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden, with face-off scheduled for 19:00 on Tuesday, December 16.

Rangers Stand Out as a Value Bet

The -132 about the Rangers look very attractive when it comes to the Moneyline. We think the Canucks can be beaten, so this is our prediction.

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Rangers Won 2-0 in Teams’ Last Encounter

Vancouver Canucks won their previous game 2-1. This was a road victory at Prudential Center against New Jersey Devils. Jake DeBrusk and Zeev Buium scored one goal each. Goalie Thatcher Demko was red hot in the net, stopping 25 shots (.962).

New York Rangers lost when they last took to the ice. At Madison Square Garden, they were turned over 4-1 at home to Anaheim Ducks. Rangers had 27 shots and Matthew Robertson scored the only goal.

Head-to-Head Statistics

The Rangers had the edge in the most recent encounter between these teams. At Delta Center, they recorded a 2-0 win over the Canucks. It’s been three victories on the bounce for the Rangers when playing the Canucks. On the head-to-head front, they have won 6 of the past 10.

Starting Goalies

Thatcher Demko (Expected)

Season	W-L-OTL:	GAA:	SV%:	SO:
24/25	6-5-0	2.7	.903	0
23/24	35-14-2	2.45	.918	5

Jonathan Quick (Expected)

Season	W-L-OTL:	GAA:	SV%:	SO:
24/25	3-3-1	1.9	.937	1
23/24	18-6-2	2.62	.911	2

Vancouver Canucks – Last 10 Games

3 wins, 6 losses and 1 overtime loss, averaging 2.0 goals from 27.4 shots on goal, with a 11.6% powerplay efficiency. The Canucks have been giving up 3.1 goals from 25.0 shots, averaging 4.1 penalties with a penalty-killing efficiency of 85.4%.

Aatu Raety is the top points scorer with 5 points, 2 goals and 3 assists, with Tom Willander racking up 5 points, 1 goal and 4 assists, in the past 10 games. Goalie Kevin Lankinen have a 3.50 goal against average with a .848 save percentage.

New York Rangers – Last 10 Games

The Rangers have 5 wins, 3 losses and 2 overtime losses, averaging 2.8 goals from 26.4 shots on goal, with a 16.0% powerplay efficiency. They have been conceding 2.9 goals from 28.5 shots, averaging 2.9 penalties per game with a penalty-killing efficiency of 86.2%.

The top points scorer is Artemi Panarin with 14 points, 5 goals and 9 assists, while Mika Zibanejad is next best after having 10 points, 4 goals and 6 assists. Goalie Igor Shesterkin have a 2.66 GAA with a .906 SV%.

Vancouver Canucks vs New York Rangers Prediction & Picks

Take in the full Vancouver Canucks vs New York Rangers betting outlook — from our expert match prediction and correct score pick to player prop insights and a bet builder tailored for value.

Game Prediction

We’re keeping our pick simple and backing New York Rangers to win. The home team should be able to triumph in this NHL game and you can get them at a tempting -132.

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Key Canucks vs Rangers stats:

Canucks have lost 7 of their last 10 games.
Canucks have lost 14 of their last 20 games.
Rangers have won the last 3 games between these teams.

Rangers Moneyline Probability

According to the best NHL betting sites, our pick has a 56.8% chance of winning. Our analysts think there’s a stronger chance of success and calculate the probability to be 60-65%. It’s why we think it’s worth placing this hockey bet.

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Our Game Prediction

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Player Prop Picks

Top Pick: J.T. Miller Over 1.5 Shots -200

J.T. Miller (Rangers) has had Over 1.5 shots on goal in 5 straight games at home. We’re going to take him on the Overs for Shots on Goal, with this line making plenty of appeal at odds of -200.

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Same Game Parlay Picks

Moneyline Rangers

To Score Artemi Panarin

Shots on Goal J.T. Miller Over 1.5

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Correct Score Prediction

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3 - 4 Rangers logo

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You can secure odds of +1000 that the Rangers are able to land a 4-3 victory. Correct score betting can provide plenty of fun and it’s a way of landing bigger odds.

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Vancouver Canucks vs New York Rangers Odds

The odds and lines are updated on a frequent basis. You might therefore find that they are different to the ones listed for the above betting predictions.

Rangers Have the Shortest Odds to Win

Sportsbooks’ favorites New York Rangers are regarded as likeliest victors for this game and the -132 about them triumphing means a 57% chance based on their current Moneyline betting odds. At +110, Vancouver Canucks are regarded as having a lower probability of winning.

The puck line is 1.5 and the total goals line is 5.5. A Totals wager is always available and can often provide value selections. There’s an opportunity to bet Over 5.5 at -115.

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Puck Line

Total Goals

Artemi Panarin Favorite to Find the Net First

Artemi Panarin is favorite to be First Goalscorer at +1000. If you want to back him to score the last goal, you can get similar odds.

Player Goals

Artemi Panarin (Rangers)

J.T. Miller (Rangers)

Vincent Trocheck (Rangers)

Mika Zibanejad (Rangers)

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Player Assists

Artemi Panarin (Rangers)

J.T. Miller (Rangers)

Vincent Trocheck (Rangers)

Mika Zibanejad (Rangers)

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Player Shots

Artemi Panarin (Rangers)

Mika Zibanejad (Rangers)

Conor Garland (Canucks)

Jake DeBrusk (Canucks)

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Micro Betting

Among the various options for wagering on the NHL, you will find that micro betting is provided. It focuses on short-term in-game outcomes such as whether a goal will be scored within the next 10 minutes.

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Last 5 Games

Canucks

NHL: 14/12 Canucks2 Devils 1
NHL: 12/12 Sabres3 Canucks 2
NHL: 09/12 Red Wings4 Canucks 0
NHL: 07/12 Wild2 Canucks 4
NHL: 06/12 Mammoth4 Canucks 1

Rangers

NHL: 16/12 Ducks4 Rangers 1
NHL: 14/12 Canadiens4 Rangers 5
NHL: 11/12 Rangers0 Blackhawks 3
NHL: 08/12 Golden Knights3 Rangers 2
NHL: 06/12 Avalanche3 Rangers 2

Head to Head

Vancouver vs NY Rangers

NHL: 29/10 2025 Rangers 2 Canucks 0
NHL: 22/03 2025 Canucks 3 Rangers 5
NHL: 20/11 2024 Rangers 4 Canucks 3
NHL: 09/01 2024 Canucks 6 Rangers 3
NHL: 29/10 2023 Rangers 4 Canucks 3
NHL: 16/02 2023 Rangers 6 Canucks 4
NHL: 09/02 2023 Canucks 3 Rangers 4
NHL: 28/02 2022 Canucks 5 Rangers 2
NHL: 03/11 2021 Rangers 2 Canucks 3
NHL: 05/01 2020 Rangers 1 Canucks 2

Team Stats

Latest regular season and playoff games stats.

Vancouver Canucks Stats

New York Rangers Stats

Moneyline

3 wins and 7 defeats in the last 10 games
4 wins and 6 defeats in the last 10 games on the road

Moneyline

5 wins and 5 defeats in the last 10 games
4 wins and 6 defeats in the last 10 home games

Puck Line

+1.5 Betting Line: Have covered the +1.5 puck line in 6 of the last 10 games
+1.5 Betting Line on the Road: Have covered the +1.5 puck line in 7 of the last 10 games on the road

Puck Line

-1.5 Betting Line: Have covered the -1.5 puck line in 3 of the last 10 games
-1.5 Betting Line at Home: Have covered the -1.5 puck line in 1 of the last 10 home games

Total Goals

Game Totals: An average of 5.10 goals in the previous 10 games
Game Totals on the Road: An average of 6.80 goals in the previous 10 games on the road
Over 5.5: Covered in 3 of the previous 10 games
Over 5.5 on the Road: Covered in 6 of the previous 10 games on the road
Team Totals: Have scored an average of 2.00 goals and allowed 3.10 goals in the last 10 games
Team Totals on the Road: Have scored an average of 3.20 pts and allowed 3.60 goals in the last 10 games on the road

Total Goals

Game Totals: An average of 5.70 goals in the previous 10 games
Game Totals at Home: An average of 5.60 goals in the previous 10 home games
Over 5.5: Covered in 4 of the previous 10 games
Over 5.5 at Home: Covered in 2 of the previous 10 home games
Team Totals: Have scored an average of 2.80 goals and allowed 2.90 goals in the last 10 games
Team Totals at Home: Have scored an average of 2.40 goals and allowed 3.20 goals in the last 10 home games

Team Stats - Avg/Game

Last 10 Games

Goals Powerplay: 0.5
Shots: 27.4
Goals Shorthanded: 0
Penalties: 4.1
Empty Net Goals: 0.1
Penalty Minutes: 8.2
Blocks: 16.9
Faceoff Wins : 28.1
Hits: 19.9
Giveaways: 13.7
Takeaways: 4.4

Last 10 Games on the Road

Goals Powerplay: 1
Shots: 23.2
Goals Shorthanded: 0.1
Penalties: 5
Empty Net Goals: 0.2
Penalty Minutes: 12.7
Blocks: 12.4
Faceoff Wins : 29.2
Hits: 19.4
Giveaways: 13.3
Takeaways: 4.2

Team Stats - Avg/Game

Last 10 Games

Goals Powerplay: 0.4
Shots: 26.4
Goals Shorthanded: 0
Penalties: 2.9
Empty Net Goals: 0.3
Penalty Minutes: 5.9
Blocks: 14.5
Faceoff Wins : 30.2
Hits: 29.3
Giveaways: 15.4
Takeaways: 3

Last 10 Home Games

Goals Powerplay: 0.4
Shots: 25.1
Goals Shorthanded: 0
Penalties: 3.1
Empty Net Goals: 0
Penalty Minutes: 7.5
Blocks: 15.9
Faceoff Wins : 28.4
Hits: 27.1
Giveaways: 15.3
Takeaways: 4

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Vancouver Canucks Player Stats & Roster

#	Player	GP	MIN	G	A	P	+/-
43	Quinn Hughes	27	27.41	3	21	24	-10
40	Elias Pettersson	28	20.63	8	14	22	-7
8	Conor Garland	26	20.6	6	12	18	-5

44	Kiefer Sherwood	32	17.56	13	4	17	-7
17	Filip Hronek	32	24.39	2	14	16	2
6	Brock Boeser	30	19.07	9	7	16	-12
74	Jake DeBrusk	32	17.79	9	6	15	-10
91	Evander Kane	31	17.42	5	10	15	-5
18	Drew O'Connor	32	13.71	7	5	12	-3
54	Aatu Raety	28	12.09	3	8	11	4
94	Linus Karlsson	29	10.32	5	5	10	-3
	Tom Willander	22	13.68	1	7	8	1
63	Max Sasson	29	11.03	6	2	8	-2
57	Tyler Myers	32	20.47	1	6	7	-11
13	Arshdeep Bains	26	9.15	1	4	5	0
29	Marcus Pettersson	32	20.54	1	4	5	-2
73	Lukas Reichel	19	12.25	2	3	5	-4
26	Elias Pettersson	29	13.54	1	3	4	-1
	MacKenzie MacEachern	8	10.19	1	3	4	0
72	Filip Chytil	6	15.63	3	0	3	0
23	Jonathan Lekkerimaeki	8	10.89	1	1	2	0
73	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	11	11.84	0	1	1	-4
53	Teddy Blugers	2	15.85	1	0	1	0
64	David Kampf	12	15.49	0	0	0	-5
90	Vittorio Mancini	5	10.52	0	0	0	-2
21	Nils Hoeglander	3	13.23	0	0	0	-1
	Braeden Cootes	3	10.77	0	0	0	-2
27	Derek Forbort	2	13.95	0	0	0	0
88	Nils Aaman	2	8.65	0	0	0	0
62	Joseph Labate	1	9.5	0	0	0	-1

#	Goalies	GP	GAA	SV%
32	Kevin Lankinen	17	3.49	0.878
35	Thatcher Demko	12	2.67	0.903
	Jiri Patera	1	7.39	0.825
60	Nikita Tolopilo	4	2.74	0.911

New York Rangers Player Stats & Roster

#	Player	GP	MIN	G	A	P	+/-
10	Artemi Panarin	34	20.72	11	23	34	-2
23	Adam Fox	27	23.84	3	23	26	4
93	Mika Zibanejad	33	20.44	11	14	25	-7

10	J.T. Miller	32	20.78	9	11	20	-10
50	Will Cuylle	34	17.19	9	9	18	-10
13	Alexis Lafreniere	34	17.18	7	11	17	-6
16	Vincent Trocheck	20	20.5	5	10	15	-5
44	Vladislav Gavrikov	34	23.62	6	7	13	2
42	Noah Laba	34	13.2	5	5	10	2
	Conor Sheary	31	14.75	1	8	9	-1
14	Taylor Raddysh	32	11.53	5	2	7	3
39	Sam Carrick	34	10.89	1	5	6	3
29	Matthew Robertson	25	16.2	2	4	6	-3
4	Braden Schneider	34	19.39	1	5	6	-3
24	Carson Soucy	30	17.94	3	3	6	8
22	Jonny Brodzinski	22	11.75	2	3	5	2
17	Will Borgen	27	18.6	2	2	4	4
84	Adam Edstroem	24	9.57	2	2	4	5
18	Urho Vaakanainen	18	14.21	0	3	3	-1
71	Juuso Paerssinen	14	8.93	2	1	3	3
73	Matthew Rempe	10	9.73	1	0	1	0
60	Scott Morrow	9	14.11	0	1	1	-2
94	Gabriel Perreault	3	13.17	0	1	1	2
65	Brett Berard	11	10.99	0	0	0	-1
49	Jaroslav Chmelar	5	8.22	0	0	0	-1
33	Dylan Garand	0	0	0	0	0	0
78	Brennan Othmann	1	12.5	0	0	0	-1

#	Goalies	GP	GAA	SV%
32	Jonathan Quick	7	1.86	0.937
31	Igor Shesterkin	27	2.55	0.908
	Spencer Martin	-	-	-

Injuries & Suspensions

Vancouver Canucks Injury Table

Type

Name

Info

Derek Forbort

Injured

Elias Pettersson

Injured

Teddy Blugers

Injured

Filip Chytil

Injured

New York Rangers Injury Table

Type

Name

Info

Adam Fox

Injured

Adam Edstroem

Injured

Starting Lineups

Both teams’ confirmed lineups will be published ahead of face-off. There is also the chance to look at the lineups from the previous 10 games.

Previous Vancouver Canucks Lineups

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Canucks 2-1 Devils

Metropolitan	GP	W	L	OT	PTS	P%	RW	ROW	GF	GA	DIFF	Home	Road	S/O	L10	Strk
1 Carolina	32	21	9	2	44	0.688	13	17	108	90	18	11-5-1	10-4-1	4-1	7-3	4W
2 NY Islanders	33	19	11	3	41	0.621	13	16	100	93	7	10-6-2	9-5-1	3-3	6-4	3W
3 Washington	32	18	10	4	40	0.625	17	18	106	83	23	10-5-2	8-5-2	0-4	7-3	2L
4 Philadelphia	31	16	9	6	38	0.613	9	11	92	88	4	10-5-4	6-4-2	5-2	5-5	3L
5 Pittsburgh	31	14	8	9	37	0.597	13	14	99	96	3	6-5-5	8-3-4	0-5	4-6	5L
6 New Jersey	33	18	14	1	37	0.561	12	16	97	103	-6	10-6-1	8-8-0	2-0	3-7	1L
7 NY Rangers	34	16	14	4	36	0.529	11	15	89	92	-3	4-9-3	12-5-1	1-0	5-5	1L
8 Columbus	32	13	13	6	32	0.5	7	9	96	112	-16	6-5-3	7-8-3	4-1	2-8	5L

East Atlantic	GP	W	L	OT	PTS	P%	RW	ROW	GF	GA	DIFF	Home	Road	S/O	L10	Strk
1 Tampa Bay	33	18	12	3	39	0.591	15	18	106	88	18	8-8-0	10-4-3	0-1	4-6	2L
2 Detroit	33	18	12	3	39	0.591	14	16	104	109	-5	9-6-1	9-6-2	2-2	5-5	1W
3 Montreal	32	17	11	4	38	0.594	10	15	105	113	-8	8-8-1	9-3-3	2-2	5-5	1W
4 Boston	33	19	14	0	38	0.576	13	17	109	105	4	11-5-0	8-9-0	2-0	6-4	1L
5 Florida	32	17	13	2	36	0.563	15	16	103	101	2	10-6-2	7-7-0	1-1	5-5	2W
6 Ottawa	32	15	13	4	34	0.531	10	12	101	104	-3	6-6-2	9-7-2	3-0	4-6	1W
7 Toronto	31	14	12	5	33	0.532	10	14	102	102	0	9-5-5	5-7-0	0-1	5-5	2L
8 Buffalo	32	14	14	4	32	0.5	10	12	98	109	-11	9-5-2	5-9-2	2-0	5-5	3W

East Central	GP	W	L	OT	PTS	P%	RW	ROW	GF	GA	DIFF	Home	Road	S/O	L10	Strk
1 Colorado	32	23	2	7	53	0.828	21	23	128	74	54	13-0-2	10-2-5	0-4	7-3	2W
2 Dallas	34	22	7	5	49	0.721	18	19	115	90	25	11-5-1	11-2-4	3-2	7-3	1W
3 Minnesota	33	19	9	5	43	0.652	13	16	99	87	12	11-3-4	8-6-1	3-1	7-3	4W
4 Utah	34	16	15	3	35	0.515	12	16	106	101	5	8-5-1	8-10-2	0-0	4-6	2W
5 Winnipeg	32	15	15	2	32	0.5	13	14	98	99	-1	8-7-1	7-8-1	1-1	3-7	1L
6 Chicago	32	13	13	6	32	0.5	12	13	91	98	-7	7-6-3	6-7-3	0-2	3-7	2L
7 St Louis	34	12	15	7	31	0.456	12	12	86	123	-37	6-8-4	6-7-3	0-2	5-5	1L
8 Nashville	32	13	15	4	30	0.469	9	11	92	111	-19	8-8-2	5-7-2	2-0	7-3	1W

West Pacific	GP	W	L	OT	PTS	P%	RW	ROW	GF	GA	DIFF	Home	Road	S/O	L10	Strk
1 Vegas	31	16	6	9	41	0.661	12	15	96	90	6	7-4-4	9-2-5	1-3	6-4	2W
2 Anaheim	33	20	12	1	41	0.621	12	16	118	108	10	11-4-0	9-8-1	4-0	6-4	1W
3 LA Kings	32	14	9	9	37	0.578	9	13	84	86	-2	4-6-4	10-3-5	1-5	4-6	3L
4 Edmonton	33	15	12	6	36	0.545	10	15	110	114	-4	8-3-3	7-9-3	0-2	6-4	1L
5 San Jose	33	16	14	3	35	0.53	8	15	96	110	-14	9-5-3	7-9-0	1-1	5-5	2W
6 Seattle	30	12	12	6	30	0.5	7	12	74	93	-19	7-6-3	5-6-3	0-3	2-8	2L
7 Calgary	33	13	16	4	30	0.455	10	11	84	97	-13	7-5-2	6-11-2	2-2	6-4	1W
8 Vancouver	32	12	17	3	27	0.422	8	10	89	112	-23	4-10-1	8-7-2	2-0	3-7	1W

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