Canucks Place Filip Chytil on IR, Recall Jacob Quillan in Latest Roster Shuffle

The Vancouver Canucks are officially running a hospital ward instead of a hockey team. Daily Faceoff just reported that center Filip Chytil is heading to injured reserve, and Jacob Quillan is getting the call-up to fill the void.

Chytil’s luck is objectively terrible. He played just 12 games last season due to a head injury, and now he is sidelined with a shoulder strain after colliding with referee Riley Brace during the preseason. Getting taken out by the guy in stripes is the kind of bad beat you cannot even script.

"Daily Faceoff reported the IR placement and corresponding recall."

To stop the bleeding down the middle, Vancouver is bringing up Quillan. The 23-year-old undrafted forward was just acquired in an October trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and now he is being thrown right into the fire for a Canucks team desperately trying to keep its head above water.

Vancouver is sitting at a perfectly mediocre .500 record through 14 games, mostly because half their roster is wearing suits in the press box. With guys like Thatcher Demko and Conor Garland already dealing with their own health drama, losing Chytil week-to-week leaves the Canucks scrambling for center depth. If you are looking at faceoff props or team totals, you have to factor in that Vancouver is patching together a bottom six with duct tape and AHL call-ups.

The Canucks host the Maple Leafs next on Halloween night. Quillan getting a shot against the organization that just traded him is a fun storyline, but Vancouver needs actual healthy bodies if they want to survive November. Expect head coach Manny Malhotra to keep shuffling the deck until someone actually stays on the ice.