Canucks set Opening Night Roster

Vancouver, B.C. - The Vancouver Canucks announced today their opening night 23-man active roster for the 2016.17 season. The Canucks open the campaign with a pair of back-to-back home games starting Saturday, October 15th vs Calgary and Sunday, October 16th vs Carolina.

Defenceman

| Number | Player | | --- | --- | | 55 | Biega, Alex | | 23 | Edler, Alex | | 44 | Gudbranson, Erik | | 27 | Hutton, Ben | | 63 | Larsen, Philip | | *41 | Nilsson, Tom | | 5 | Sbisa, Luca | | 8 | Tanev, Chris | | 88 | Tryamkin, Nikita |

Forwards

| Number | Player | Position | | --- | --- | --- | | 47 | Baertschi, Sven | L | | 14 | Burrows, Alex | L | | 15 | Dorsett, Derek | R | | 21 | Eriksson, Loui | R | | 50 | Gaunce, Brendan | L | | 60 | Granlund, Markus | C | | 36 | Hansen, Jannik | R | | 53 | Horvat, Bo | C | | \17 | Rodin, Anton | R | | 22 | Sedin, Daniel | L | | 33 | Sedin, Henrik | C | | 9 | Skille, Jack | R | | 20 | Sutter, Brandon | C | | 18 | Virtanen, Jake | R |
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Goaltender

| Number | Player | | --- | --- | | 25 | Markstrom, Jacob | | 30 | Miller, Ryan |
\Injured reserve
The Canucks play back-to-back games on Opening Weekend* hosting the Calgary Flames at 7:00 pm on Saturday, October 15th and the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday, October 16th at 7:00 pm. A limited number of tickets are available for both games. Visit
canucks.com/tickets
for more information.
For further details on Opening Weekendand to enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the game versus Carolina on Sunday, October 16th, fans are encouraged to visit
canucks.com/openingweekend.