Cika wannan jumla: Tare da sansanin horo da ya fara a ranar 13 ga Janairu, 2013, Vancouver ya kira 'yan wasa 12 daga Wolves. Sun kuma karfafa rundunar tsaron su ta hanyar sanya hannu kan tsoffin sojan NHL Jim Vandermeer da Cam Barker zuwa kwangilar shekara guda. A matsayi na gaba, Canucks suna magance raunin da suka faru a layin su na biyu. Cibiyar Ryan Kesler, wanda ke murmurewa daga aikin tiyata a lokacin da ba a yi ba a kafada da wuyan hannu, ba zai iya fara kakar ba; ba a san tsawon lokacin da zai yi ba a sake dawo da raunin ba. Winger David Booth ya ji rauni a lokacin da tawagar ta fara fara sansanin. Bayan an yi MRI a kan raunin da ya ji, an sanar da cewa Booth zai rasa makonni hudu zuwa shida na farfadowa. Alain Vigneault ya bayyana cewa yana fatan kiyaye layinsa na uku da na huɗu ba tare da lalacewa ba, yana barin yiwuwar maye gurbin kamar, Andrew Ebbett, Jordan Schroeder da Zack Kassian. Schroeder ya kasance zagaye na farko da aka zaba don Vancouver a
2009, amma bai taba taka leda a wasan NHL ba. Ebbett mai amfani, mai tafiya ya buga wasanni 18 don Vancouver a 2011<unk>12. Yayin da Kassian na shekara ta biyu ya samar da kwallaye hudu ne kawai a yakin neman zabensa. Vancouver ya zabi ya fara kakar tare da Ebbett kuma ya sanya Kassian a layin su na biyu. Don kiyaye zurfin tsaro, Canucks sun yanke shawarar kiyaye masu kare tara. An mayar da Schroeder zuwa ƙananan yara don bin tsarin mutum 23 kuma saboda ba zai buƙaci sharewa ba.