‘It’s Brutal, Quite Frankly’: Canucks’ Thatcher Demko Details Injury Difficulties Through The Past Few Seasons
The past couple of years have not been kind to Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko from an injury standpoint. After undergoing hip surgery this season, he's hoping to move past these struggles.
Thatcher Demko believes that this is it. For the past two years, Demko said, he’s been “playing with zero degrees of internal rotation in the hip. ” Since starting Game 1 of the Vancouver Canucks’ 2024 Stanley Cup Playoff series against the Nashville Predators and missing every post-season game after that, Demko has only played in 43 games for the Canucks.
He didn’t make his season-debut in 2024–25 until December 10 and missed two more week to months-long stretches of time until ultimately finishing the season with 23 games played. This season saw him take a weekend away for maintenance, miss a month of action from November 11 to December 11, and exit a January 10 game against the Toronto Maple Leafs that would be his last of the season. To put it in Demko’s words, “it’s brutal, quite frankly.
” But Demko’s most recent operation, a hip surgery that ended his 2025–26 season early at the end of January, looks like it could provide the solution to all of the injury problems he’s faced these past few seasons — according to the goaltender. “I think that this last operation that I had is going to be the answer for all that. So it’s kind of like that one last time going through all this, hopefully,” Demko explained during Vancouver’s end-of-season media availability on Friday.
“Obviously it’s a game, and you don’t know what the future holds as far as injuries. Anyone can get hurt any night, but just some of the nagging stuff I had, hopefully kind of dissipates. We’ve addressed the larger picture.
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