Disaster struck: Tom Willander survives a scare in the NCAA playoffs.

It’s the latest edition of the prospects tracker, where we tally up the efforts of the Vancouver Canucks’ highest profile prospects:

Tom Willander

Disaster struck the last time Tom Willander was on the ice against Northeastern.

That was Feb. 12 at the Beanpot tournament final, when Willander’s No. 2-ranked Boston University dropped a 4-3 overtime decision to the No. 20-ranked Huskies. Willander, the Canucks’ 2023 first-rounder and best defensive prospect, had tracked back to help defend a 2-on-1 in OT, but the puck got caught up in his skates, leading to the eventual winner.

Saturday’s Hockey East playoff quarterfinals served as the rematch, and another bout of misfortune for Willander late in the game threatened to derail his team yet again.

With five minutes left in the third and BU leading 3-1, a pass from behind the net ramped up Willander’s stick, hitting goaltender Mathieu Caron in the back before crossing the goal line.

But Macklin Celebrini — the projected No. 1 pick at this summer’s NHL draft — scored the 30th of his freshman season moments later to advance to the semifinal with a 4-2 win.

Despite the unlucky goal against, Willander, 19, had a strong game for the Terriers.

The 6-foot-1, 179-pound right-shot D-man was sound in his own end and earned a secondary power play assist midway through the second period as the Terriers exploded for three goals in eight minutes to blow the game open, before the Huskies got one back late in the frame.

In the end, Willander finished his first NCAA playoff game with an assist and an even plus-minus rating.

“You know, we talked about it, it was obviously disappointing losing the Beanpot where I thought we played pretty well,” said head coach Jay Pandolfo post-game. “But we had a pretty good feeling we were going to see them again at some point … and I think our guys responded very well.

“Disappointed at the end of the second, you get up 3-0, you shouldn’t give a goal up with a minute left. We got a little bit careless there. Their second goal was pretty lucky.”

At the other end of the ice, fellow Canucks prospect Jackson Dorrington (2022, Rd. 6) went a minus-1 for Northeastern. The rugged sophomore D-man had a plus-15 rating and 12 points (6G, 6A) in 33 games for the Terriers.

The victory earns BU a semifinal berth against the No. 8-ranked Maine Black Bears on Friday, March 22 at TD Garden in Boston.

Willander, a smooth-skating, two-way blueliner, has had a solid freshman season at the storied NCAA program. His plus-24 rating is tied for 15th in the country (eighth among defencemen) while the Stockholm product has contributed 22 points (4G, 18A) in 34 games, playing largely second-pairing minutes.

Meanwhile, Aiden Celebrini (2023, Rd. 7), another Canucks defensive prospect, did not dress for BU on Saturday. Celebrini, a depth defender for the Terriers, has skated in 31 games this season and has one goal, five assists and a plus-5 rating.

Celebrini is the brother of future star Macklin and the son of Burnaby’s Rick Celebrini, currently the director of sports medicine and performance for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors.

Jonathan Lekkerimaki

His team survived one do-or-die situation on Tuesday to squeak into the SHL playoffs.

Can it survive another on Monday to advance to the next round?

Canucks top prospect Jonathan Lekkerimaki tallied a primary assist at Linkoping on Tuesday as his Orebro side won 3-2 in a shootout to snag the 10th and final spot in the post-season, after the team ahead of them, Modo, was shut out 1-0 at Rogle.

It didn’t even matter that Lekkerimaki, the Canucks’ 2022 first-rounder, was stopped on his the shootout attempt: he was playoff-bound.

The win set up a best-of-three series between the 10th seed (Orebro) and the seventh seed (Lulea), which began on Thursday.

Game 1 was a tight affair, with Lekkerimaki leading the Orebro attack a few minutes into the game, cutting to the inside past a Lulea defender with a quick move then showing patience under pressure to find an open winger for a shot and a goal.

Lulea equalized midway through the second, but Orebro scored the winner with five minutes left in the third to take it 2-1.

Lekkerimaki, a 5-foot-11, 172-pound right-shot winger, finished the game with one assist, one shot on goal and a plus-1 rating in nearly 17 minutes of ice time playing on the first line.

Game 2 didn’t go so well for Lekkerimaki and Co., who lost 3-0 to Lulea on Saturday to set up Monday’s rubber match at Lulea.

Lekkerimaki had a sensational regular season in Sweden, tallying 19 goals and 12 assists in 46 games.

The 19 goals were good for sixth overall in the SHL goalscoring race.

It is unclear if Lekkerimaki will join Abbotsford when his playoffs conclude, or if he will stick around in Sweden for the world championship tournament in early May.