Abbotsford Canucks tie franchise record with sixth consecutive loss

/ Uncategorized / By

Just four months after winning the Calder Cup, the championship hangover (combined with an unbelievable injury bug walloping Vancouver) might be hitting the Abbotsford Canucks.

The Canucks have now tied a franchise record with six losses in a row after falling 2-1 to the Calgary Wranglers in a shootout on Wednesday (Oct. 29).

Abbotsford also lost 3-0 to the Wranglers on Tuesday (Oct. 28) and were swept by the Ontario Reign inside the Abbotsford Centre on Friday (Oct. 24) and Sunday (Oct. 26). The Canucks are now 0-3-0-1 on home ice this season and the club has won just two of eight in 2025-26.

Wednesday’s game saw Sawyer Mynio score on the power play at 10:07 of the first period and that goal held until Calgary’s Daniil Miromanov tied the game up at 7:38 of the third.

Mynio has quickly developed into a reliable defender for the Canucks, eating up significant minutes and playing in all situations. The rookie rearguard has been one of the few early bright spots for the struggling Abbotsford club.

Regulation and overtime solved nothing and the game moved to a shootout to decide a winner. Abbotsford shooters Vitali Kravtsov, Nils Aman and Ty Muller all were unsuccessful, while Calgary’s last shooter Matvei Gridin beat Canucks goalie Jiri Patera to hand Calgary the extra point.

Patera was outstanding for Abbotsford and made 29 saves in the loss. Calgary was in control for most of the second period and outshot Abbotsford 9-2 in the middle frame. They outshot the Canucks 30-26 in the game overall.

Canucks forward Dino Kambeitz led all Canucks with four shots on goal, while Chase Wouters, Nikolai Knyzhov, Anri Ravinskis and Kravtsov all had three. Gridin led all players with six shots.

Goal scoring continues to be an issue for the Canucks and they have just 13 goals in eight games (1.63 goals per game average). Several Abbotsford forwards are struggling offensively, with the most notable being all-star centre Ty Mueller. He has not yet recorded a point in seven games, has just nine shots and is a -5.

A big part of Abbotsford’s struggles could be traced back to unbelievable injury issues with their parent team in Vancouver. The NHL club has captain Quinn Hughes, Filip Chytil, Conor Garland, Jonathan Lekkerimaki, Teddy Blueger, Victor Mancini, Derek Forbort and Nils Hoglander all out with injuries at the moment.

Since the start of the season Abbotsford has seen Max Sasson, Mackenzie MacEachern, Kirill Kudryavtsev and Tom Willander all get called up. Players like Joe Labate, Jimmy Schuldt and Nils Aman have also been back and forth. Abbotsford has been forced to call up players from the ECHL’s Kalamazoo Wings, as well as sign new players to contracts.

The AHL has always been a league where teams have to adjust on the fly, but these early season injury challenges for Abbotsford are unprecedented since the team arrived.

The Canucks will be back in action (and praying for some healing) when they host the Henderson Silver Knights on Saturday (Nov. 1) at 7 p.m. The two teams meet again on Sunday (Nov. 2) at 4 p.m. A loss on Saturday will see the team break its franchise record for losses in a row at seven. That record was established last season from Dec. 20, 2024 to Jan. 4, 2025.

Continue visiting abbynews.com for ongoing coverage of the Abbotsford Canucks.