The 2026 Hockey Hall of Fame class has a clear Canucks connection, and not just because former Vancouver general manager Brian Burke is among the six new inductees. Four of the honorees also spent plenty of time facing Vancouver during their NHL careers, and their numbers against the Canucks tell a pretty good story.
Patrice Bergeron, who played all 1,294 of his NHL games with the Boston Bruins, built a career defined by consistency. He finished with 427 goals and 613 assists, which works out to about 0.8 points per game.
Against Vancouver, that production held steady: seven goals and 13 assists in 25 games. Bergeron was also part of the 2011 Bruins team that beat the Canucks to win the Stanley Cup.
Keith Tkachuk brought a different kind of profile to his matchups with Vancouver. Over a 1,201-game career split between the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Atlanta Thrashers, and St.
Louis Blues, he piled up 538 goals, good for 36th in NHL history, along with 2,219 penalty minutes, which ranks 41st all time. He was productive against the Canucks too, scoring 27 goals and adding 36 assists in 65 games.
Carey Price’s numbers against Vancouver stand out even more. The Montréal Canadiens goaltender, a BC native, played 712 NHL games, won 361 of them, and posted 49 shutouts, along with a 2.51 GAA and .917 SV% for his career.
Against the Canucks, he was even sharper. Price won 17 of 24 games, lost only two in regulation, and finished with a .929 SV% and 2.26 GAA.
He also had three shutouts against Vancouver.
Pekka Rinne spent his entire NHL career with the Nashville Predators, appearing in 683 games from 2005 to 2021. He finished with 369 wins and 60 shutouts overall, and 14 of those wins came against the Canucks.
Rinne also blanked Vancouver once. His record against the Canucks was balanced, with 14 regulation losses and two overtime defeats, and his numbers in those games - a .905 SV% and 2.81 GAA - were higher than his career marks of .917 SV% and 2.43 GAA.
The Hall’s newest class will be inducted this weekend. Along with Burke, Bergeron, Curley, Price, Rinne, and Tkachuk are set to join the ranks.
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