Welcome back to another Vancouver Canucks 2025–26 season series preview. In this article series, The Hockey News - Canucks site previews Vancouver’s team series matchups for the season in chronological order. Last time, we looked at what the Canucks will face in the Toronto Maple Leafs. Today, let’s preview their season matchups against the Ottawa Senators.
2024–25 Season Stats
Team Stats:
Record: 45–30–7
Points: 97
Standings placement: 4th in Atlantic Division
PP%: 23.8% (11th)
PK%: 77.7% (19th)
Goals:
Brady Tkachuk (29)
Drake Batherson (26)
Tim Stützle (24)
Shane Pinto (21)
Fabian Zetterlund (19)
Assists:
Tim Stützle (55)
Jake Sanderson (46)
Drake Batherson (42)
Thomas Chabot (36)
Claude Giroux (35)
Points:
Tim Stützle (79)
Drake Batherson (68)
Jake Sanderson (57)
Brady Tkachuk (55)
Claude Giroux (50)
Goaltenders:
Linus Ullmark
Record: 25–14–3
GAA: 2.72
SV%: .910
SO: 4
Points: 2A
Leevi Meriläinen
Record: 8–3–1
GAA: 1.99
SV%: .925
SO: 3
Points: N/A
Mads Sogaard
Record: 1–1
GAA: 5.24
SV%: .800
SO: N/A
Points: N/A
2025 Free Agency Rundown
The Senators, a team filled with a mix of young talent and key veterans, added to their youth by acquiring defenceman Jordan Spence during the 2025 off-season. They re-upped deals for Giroux and Meriläinen and also brought in centers Lars Eller and Nick Cousins on one-year deals. One of their more intriguing additions this off-season was Arthur Kaliyev, who is joining the team on a one-year, two-way deal.
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2025–26 Season Series Preview
Ottawa is coming off a successful season that saw them make the playoffs for the first time since their Conference Final loss in 2016–17. Since then, the team has conducted a complete overhaul of their roster, sporting young talent such as Stützle, Batherson, and Sanderson. This will be the Senators’ first look at a full season of Dylan Cozens, who was acquired for Josh Norris during the 2025 Trade Deadline.
Prior to their last matchup against the Senators, which took place on December 21, 2024, the Canucks had won five straight games against Ottawa, with their last loss dating back to April 19, 2022. In these teams’ two matchups from the 2024–25 season, both scored eight goals over a two-game span, with each game’s score being separated by only one tally. With Vancouver’s first game against Ottawa taking place in the second-half of a back-to-back, the goal-scoring may not be as prominent.
2025–26 Games Against Vancouver
Game 1: January 13, 4:00pm PT @ Canadian Tire Centre
Game 2: March 9, 6:00pm PT @ Rogers Arena
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