The Vancouver Canucks are already flirting with an ugly familiar number.
After Sunday’s loss to the Minnesota Wild, Vancouver has now gone 10 straight games without a win, putting this season just one game away from matching last year’s 11-game winless streak. That run in 2025-26 tied the franchise’s third-longest winless stretch, so the Canucks are suddenly staring at the same unwanted territory less than a year later.
Last season’s skid started on December 30 with a 6-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers and didn’t end until Vancouver picked up its first win of the calendar year on January 21 against the Washington Capitals.
This year’s team hasn’t been able to stop the slide. Vancouver’s last victory came against the Calgary Flames on October 3, nearly a month ago. The last time the Canucks got beyond regulation was in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Florida Panthers on October 15, which leaves their current losing streak at four.
It’s worth separating the two terms here. In NHL usage, a winless streak includes overtime and shootout losses. A losing streak is narrower, covering games in which a team doesn’t even collect a point.
There have been moments during this stretch when the Canucks looked like they had enough going to steal a game, at least for a night. But most of their strongest stretches have come in pieces, period by period, rather than over a full 60 minutes.
A loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday would put this year’s team alongside last year’s squad - and the 1979-80 Canucks - for the third-longest winless streak in franchise history. The club record still belongs to the 1973-74 team, which went 13 straight games without a win.
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