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Clark’s been giving him some Zoom goaltending lessons: https://canucksarmy.com/2021/09/16/how-ian-clarks-remote-lessons-aku-koskenvuo-paying-immensely/

Canucks notebook: Podkolzin praised for putting in work, Hamonic reports

With Sutter still out and Gadjovich claimed, getting Lammikko kills two birds with one stone -- adds some size to the bottom 6, and can play C. He's a better fit for 4C than Petan, I imagine he'd get a chance there to start the season until Sutter comes back. Maybe they move him to the wing after, but this prevents Miller having to move to C and creating a hole in the top 6.

The following players have been released from their professional tryout contract and will be joining the Abbotsford Canucks (AHL): Lukosevicius, Jarid Arseneau, Vincent Sautner, Ashton The following players have been released from their amateur tryout contract and will be joining the Abbotsford Canucks (AHL): Nielsen, Tristen Keppen, Ethan Wouters, Chase Kannok-Leipert, Alex The following players have been loaned to the Abbotsford Canucks (AHL): Plasek, Karel Silovs, Arturs Woo, Jett The following players have been designated for assignment to the Abbotsford Canucks (AHL): Stevens, John Stephens, Devante Rempal, Sheldon Martin, Spencer

Nice start to the season!

Jasek continues his point streak:

Zlodeyev back in action in the MHL today:

A drop pass that works!

What a performance by Gadjovich tonight, his skating has really come a long way. If Sutter and Motte can't start the season, would love to see a Gadjovich - Highmore - Lockwood 4th line. And Wouters seems like a nice find for Abbotsford to boot, skates well, hits hard, tenacious on the puck.

Just had surgery today:

You can see the full video I posted last page. Sportsnet captioned the video: Jason Dickinson wins the faceoff but it's deflected off of Olli Juolevi and in. Morgan Geekie would be credited for the goal.

Let me know when you conclude your search. Sportsnet sure thinks Juolevi touched it. Jason Dickinson wins the faceoff but it's deflected off of Olli Juolevi and in. Morgan Geekie would be credited for the goal.

On who played well: 0:35 - 0:55 I thought Klimovich played well again, I thought Silovs gave us some good minutes in net, Rathbone had a good game. I'm probably going to miss some guys. Di Giuseppe played well, he was reliable. On Rathbone: 2:20 - 2:50 I thought Rathbone was good tonight, had a good night, had a good game. I'm not sure about the resiliency part, I think sometimes you're going to take a penalty, that's part of the game. I like how active he was, how strong, he tried to defend, there are a lot of things that he did, you can see that our back end was trying to incorporate, it's been our defensive game. Like I said earlier, he had a good game. On Juolevi: 3:00 - I thought he was fine.

LOL learn to track a puck or remember a TV replay, bud.

Call me crazy but is that not a black puck, touching the white tape of OJ's stick, before it went in? Another replay during the game, with a better angle also suggested that OJ touched it. At least, the Seattle commentators made sure to point out that even though Juolevi touched it, Geekie would get the point.

I don't think this game is great for judging young defensemen. It's pretty difficult to look good with this forward group: Hoglander - Petan - Boeser Di Giuseppe - Dickinson - Klimovich Dries - Highmore - Lockwood Arseneau - Stevens - Rempal Outside of Hoglander, Boeser and Dickinson, there's not one full time NHLer. There are young guys trying to crack the NHL. There are career journeymen who flip flop between the AHL and NHL. There are even guys on AHL only contracts. And this D corp: Rathbone - Schenn Juolevi - Burroughs Hunt - Bowey If the Canucks get everyone signed/ back on the team, only one of those six guys will be on the ice by opening day. Our goaltending duo? The two of them have started a combined 0 NHL games. I laughed at the end when one of Seattle's commentators said it does not feel like a preseason game. Rathbone had an atrocious giveaway, but Juolevi scored the game winner on his own goalie, so... End of the day, the best LD of the night was probably Hunt. Seattle basically iced their opening day lineup. Vancouver iced a lineup where three quarters of the guys will be in the AHL in two weeks. The Canucks will go with a more veteran lineup tomorrow, hopefully both Juolevi and Rathbone will be in, and that would be a much better test for them.

I don't know how you interpret "just," but Sutter signed his contract on July 28, the first day of free agency. Juolevi signed shortly after on August 9. There was plenty of time between then and Sept. 23, the first day of training camp, to communicate to the Canucks any health problems they may have had. Canucks have said that Sutter trained fully and was feeling fine until mid-August, weeks after he re-upped. Not that it makes a difference in the case of Juolevi -- he was an RFA so his rights belong to the Canucks regardless of contract status, it's not like the Canucks would cut him off from medical access. Just because his signing is more under the radar than say, Hughes would be, does not mean he's actually under the Canucks' radar. They send people to check on unsigned players in major juniors; surely they check in on a former 5th overall pick they were hoping to make the lineup. Juolevi did not sign a "team friendly" contract. He signed the only contract he could -- league minimum -- because he has not proven to be anything better than league minimum. He's currently competing against a 33 year old Brad Hunt in training camp and not coming out on top. OJ wouldn't be the only person to push himself early in the drills, considering the number of first timers who don't even know what's coming next. Juolevi was drafted a year before Green became head coach, this is not his first time at his training camp. Players have said that they go through a rigorous practice beforehand and just a short rest before the bag skate, that's part of its difficulty. Over 200 players have done this over Green's 5 camps, including rookies who have never been to a NHL camp. Only one laid down and refused to get up. Long Covid symptoms, if he has them, does not show up only after he exerted himself in the drills. This is a persistent, chronic condition. Again, you can see videos I linked of NHL's fitness testing on day one. One of the tests literally have players pedaling a bike at pace until they cannot continue anymore. It's highly unlikely that Juolevi can pass all those tests, and pass all the tests back in April that cleared him to play, and is able to engage in high paced drills and scrimmages in all the days after the bag skate, and has long Covid. Your description of long Covid does not fit any known case of long Covid -- healthy enough to play in the best league in the world, but have breathing/ fatigue issues only when in a bag skate. We saw a 10 second clip. Presumably Juolevi's teammates and coaches saw more. Veteran leaders like Myers and Miller made a point to ask him to get up. Green, who rarely criticizes young players in the media, came out and directly expressed his disappointment at Juolevi's performance. He could've just said that the training camp is not over and they're still evaluating all the players, and left it at that. He didn't. Considering Green himself got Covid last year, along with more than a dozen of his players, I would think he knows something about its potential effects. Lastly, it's honestly absurd that people are hoping that Juolevi has a serious, incurable illness than just being plain unprepared for training camp. You can always get better at a bag skate. You can't get better at long Covid. His NHL career would be over. If long Covid is really what you make it sound like -- only flares up in moments of maximum exertion -- he would never be trusted to be on the ice again. What if it happens whenever he sprints to catch up to a forward on a breakaway? Or when he's stuck out on a long shift during the last minute of the game? Or if the games goes into overtime in the playoffs? Is the team supposed to just play with 5 D whenever the game goes past 60 minutes? You're talking about a condition that affects his ability to skate, or even function, at the moments that he has to work the hardest, which tends to be the most critical parts of the game. If he was a Norris level player, maybe a team will take a risk. A guy fighting to be 3LD? No team would think that's worth the trouble. So for his sake, I hope that he's just out of shape, and not hit by some mysterious, undetectable long Covid symptom that only affects him when he needs to work extra hard.