The 24-year-old Canadian star was second after the short program Friday night in his first major event since the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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Three-time USA champion Wagner topped the women’s short program at 70.73.
“Pretty, pretty high stress and challenging competition for me”, Chan said. His skate included a quad toe loop and triple axel.
Hanyu, sixth after a shaky short program, roared back to win silver with 259.54.
Japan’s Daisuke Murakami, who was top after the short program, finished in third place on 252.25.
The gold was No. 3 on the day for the Canadian team.
Weaver and Andrew Poje scored 68.00 points for their waltz to take a two-point lead over American siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani.
Weaver said the two sat down and watched their performances on video after the world championships. “When I feel prepared, that’s when I’m most confident”.
“I’m beyond ecstatic”, she said after her routine to “Hip Hip Chin Chin”.
World champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford routed the field, winning the pairs crown by 25 points.
“This competition is proof that in our 10th season sometimes that longevity really helps”, Weaver said.
“I just shut my brain off. I had tunnel vision, you know”, he told his coach Kathy Johnson while waiting to hear his scores. “We were literally making it happen in this program versus sometimes when you just let it all happen and it happens perfectly”.
Duhamel and Radford opted not to participate in the opening Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 series event in US last month but didn’t miss a beat as they maintained their overnight lead, with Russia’s Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov second as Canadians Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro took bronze. “I found out that I was in third when my friend Ashley Wagner texted me and said, ‘Congrats, you got third.’ I just sent her a text back that said, ‘LOL'”.
The 16-year-old Nagai started the day in second place but she could only manage 109.57 points in the free skate and an overall total of 172.92, finishing behind American Ashley Wagner and Russia’s Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.
Canada’s Gabrielle Daleman was third in the free skate with 116.20 points, .88 ahead of Kazakhstan’s Elizabet Tursynbaeva.
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Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond is fourth after a rough outing in her first major competition in more than a year. The 19-year-old from Marystown, N.L., who missed all of last season after breaking her leg, slipped on her flying camel spin, and then fell on her double Axel.
