More playoff appearances next five years: Flames or Canucks?

With the St. Louis Blues surging and the Minnesota Wild maintaining their spot in the Western Conference Wild Card race, it looks like the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks will fail to qualify for the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

While the season was promising for a rebuilding Flames group that saw the emergence of rookie goalie Dustin Wolf, the Canucks’ season was filled with drama and underwhelming performances.

On Thursday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Frank Seravalli and Tyler Yaremchuk play the overreaction game and ask the question: will the Flames make the playoffs more in the next five years than the Canucks?

Tyler Yaremchuk: In the Pacific Division, the Calgary Flames and the emergence of Dustin Wolf has people viewing them a bit different going forward. With the Canucks, after their great season last year, on a downturn, how much of an overreaction is this sentence: the Flames will have more playoff appearances in the next five years than the Canucsk?

Frank Seravalli: I think it’s probably … I’m gonna say it’s a 5 – not an overreaction, not an underreaction. This is the tough part, because I really like where the Flames are heading, and I think they’ve done a really nice job drafting. I love Dustin Wolf.

At the same time, I don’t like where the Canucks are trending, and I think they’ve got a lot to figure out. They’ve got some serious and significant holes. However, they’re starting with Quinn Hughes, who is a top-10 player in the world. We’re not really sure what Elias Pettersson is, or if Thatcher Demko is healthy, plus they’ve got a great coaching staff, at least if they stay there. There’s a lot of question marks.

Could I see the Canucks back in the playoffs next season? Yes I could, but I have a harder time projecting what four years from now looks for Vancouver.

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here…