Theguy445

Why does everyone assume Podkolzin is falling past 3? Seems like nearly every draft ranking has him at #3 and he's like the consensus best player after Hughes and Kakko

Listen pleeease just answer my one question. Can you name one team that signs college free agents that doesn't burn a year of their contract? Just ONE please.

The Brassard thing actually isn't that complicated, it doesn't matter if hypothetically he put up 100 points. If our scouts watched him and identified that his skating is not even close to nhl or ahl level, and that he hasn't made major strides in improving it, there's no reason to use a contract spot on him.

1 game might not mean much, but from what I saw he looked kinda lost in the defensive zone at times when the other team had puck control.

When all of Lind, Gadjovich, Palmu, and Dahlen are struggling in the AHL after having really amazing seasons the year before, it looks bad on Trent Cull. Now is it technically possible that these four just happen to be not ready and it's more their fault and Cull is doing a decent job? Yeah I guess so. It's just that it should definitively be alarming that good prospects who took significant development strides the year before all look out of place in Cull's system. Honestly the worst thing that you can definitively pinpoint to Cull is having guys like Jasek randomly getting scratched many times despite having strong games the night before, it's just bewildering sometimes tbh.

Any Matt Brassard watchers out there, could you let us know if this is more of a Carl Neill situation where he didn't get signed despite good numbers because his skating was not close to NHL level or has Brassard taken steps in that area of his game?

Wow man you got me, a 3 game sample size where Gaunce got really lucky goals totally destroys my entire point of him not being productive and looking like an offensive black hole from over a 100 game sample. Nice point bud.

Gaunce is an offensive black hole, he has shown absolutely nothing in terms of production at the nhl level, he doesn't produce even near enough for a fourth line roll. This is the reality and it doesn't matter how much cdc complains or praises his ahl play.

B-b-b-but Jake Wise just hasn't got enough ice time yet guys! - Canucks Army

You can't just look at anecdotes and say "see these guys turned out fine so will Kole Lind". The reality is that these things are measured in terms of probabilities. Idk if you can instantly write off Kole Lind yet because he has only played 30 games and with limited ice time, but if he is struggling to produce by the end of this year and next year it seems pretty reasonable to say that "it's unlikely that he will be a top six nhl forward".

Look at the Jordan Greenway goal, Del Zotto completely failed at physically containing him and by the end of the goal it looked like he was barely trying to challenge him. When you watch Canucks games pay attention to the breakouts, Del Zotto rarely makes a great pass that causes a scoring chance the other way, he seems simply content with making low risk low reward plays just to get it out of the blue line. He's not terrible, but he's not much more than a 6/7 Dman on a cup contending team.

I am very confident that on next year's opening roster (barring injuries) Tanev, Stecher, Hutton, Gudbranson, Juolevi, and Hughes our gonna be our starting 6.

Anyone have any information on how he's looked so far in his two games?

How many games did it take Virtanen to get 5 points?

Except the 100 point guy is making 12.5 mill........