Report: Vancouver Canucks’ Thatcher Demko out 3-4 weeks

TSN’s Darren Dreger appeared on the Sekeres and Price show, a local Vancouver sports radio show to discuss the timeline of Vancouver Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko’s injury.

Here is what Dreger is hearing, “It’s optimism on both fronts. The outside timeline – and let’s not staple this down – is 3-4 weeks. And we know that Dakota Joshua is continuing to recover from testicular cancer and the treatments that go along with that. So, that sounds like great news. He’s an important team guy… Thatcher Demko and that mysterious knee recovery situation. [There’s] Not a lot of details what’s actually going on there, but again, same sort of timeline, that 3-4 weeks. If it’s a bit shy of three weeks, if it drifts into that fourth week, I don’t think there should be panic across the board. But again, a sense of optimism if you’re looking at it internally from the Canucks’ perspective that those two pieces — especially Demko, who’s kidding who, he’s a game changer as an NHL netminder. If they can get him into the mix early into the regular season, a month in worst case scenario, I think that puts Vancouver in a really good position moving forward.”

Demko is coming off the best season of his career, where he had a 35-14-2 record, a .918% save percentage, 5 shutouts, and 25.83 goals saved above expected during the 2023-24 campaign. He also had a .917 save percentage in his one game in the playoffs, where he also got the win.

Demko originally suffered the injury during Game 1 of the first round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Nashville Predators. He had been recovering from the injury throughout the offseason but revealed at the start of training camp last month that he hit a wall in his recovery at some point during the summer.