canucklax Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Pretty much what he said. Sustr is more unique because of his 6'8 frame. But to be perfectly honest, Dekeyser or Taker, if they were on our prospect pool right now, they will be behind, Price Connauton and Mcnally. They are just free prospects, and I will be quite surprised if any of these 2 prospects make the NHL. Makes me appreciate the potential we have our other prospects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver_surfer Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 As a generalized statement we have skilled guys on D. With all that skill we still lack any strong puck rushing defender with speed and puck handling skills. (Our skill is making the first pass, but teams are stacking the neutral zone because they know the pass is coming...).Someone who can break pressure blowing past a fore-check; busting into the offensive zone on the power play. (I hate relying on that stupid srop back pass). I suppose its too much to expect that guy as a college free agent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Sounds like the Canucks may have a good shot at this guy. News1130 Sports @News1130Sports 13h Laganiere tells CKWX that the #Canucks are 1 of the teams in the mix to land his services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4ZZY Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 We are not getting Dekeyser. Sustr - maybe. If we land both. That'd be a miracle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningWild Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Sounds like the Canucks may have a good shot at this guy. Eliteprospects already have him rumored to be going to the Canucks. This would be a great pickup. Pretty much the equivelant of a fully developed 4th or 5th round pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebreh Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I like it. I thought he was a winger, but he's a centre so Canucks might have a legitimate shot at him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningWild Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 He looks like a bigger version of Lappiere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 He looks like what hopefully Labate looks like after another couple years at Wisconsin. Pretty much like a man among boys in a lot of those sequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill F-ing Murray Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 http://canucksarmy.c...ntoine-laganire MCKENZIE: CANUCKS SCOUTING YALE'S ANTOINE LAGANIÈRE Thomas Drance February 05 2013 12:37PM Photo Credit: Mara Lavitt/New Haven Register Over the weekend Mike Gillis and Laurence Gilman caused quite the stir by attending a Washington Capitals home game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Super Bowl Sunday. The ensuing speculation led Gillis to ultimately apologize to to Washington Capital's General Manager McPhee (or if you prefer: GMMG apologized to GMGM), and McPhee ultimately complimented Gillis' class. I find all of that exceptionally boring. More interesting, is the report from TSN's Bob McKenzie who appeared on the Team 1040 on Monday afternoon and said that the Canucks management team spent some of their time on the East Coast scouting Yale Bulldogs forward Antoine Laganière. Read on past the jump. Obviously I don't watch much College Hockey (I've manage to stream a small handful of Wisconsin Badger games this season) so I'm completely unfamiliar with Antoine Laganière's game. But his name isn't entirely unfamiliar to me, since he attended Vancouver's Development camp way back in the summer of 2011. Now, he also attended development camps hosted by both the Penguins and Oilers organizations, so it's not like his participation in a Canucks hosted camp indicates that the Canucks have some sort of "inside track" on signing him or anything, but he's obviously been on Vancouver's radar for a while. Following Laganière's busy summer in 2011, he took off as an NCAA skater and has morphed into a point-per game threat for the Yale Bulldogs. He's also six foot four and weighs two-hundred and change, attributes which have appealed to the Canucks (and every other NHL team for that matter) during recent entry drafts. It's not a perfect tool by any means, but I mocked up Laganière's NHL and NHLE production over the past couple of seasons just to give us a guideline of where he's at production wise. (Read more about NHLE here). Antoine Laganière NHLE GP G A Pts NHLE G NHLE A NHLE Pts 2009-10 25 7 3 10 9 4 13 2010-11 25 5 8 13 7 11 18 2011-12 35 19 14 33 18 13 31 2012-13 22 12 11 23 19 17 36 As Keith Law says, you "can't scout a boxscore," but based on his size and production, the twenty-two year old Laganière looks like he could project as a top-nine NHL forward if he continues along on his recent development track. He's also thought to be among the most highly sought after NCAA free agents this Spring, with Hockey Future figuring that as many as twenty NHL clubs could try to bid for his services. In talking about his East Coast soujourn on the Team 1040today, Mike Gillis said that he was, "out here looking at some college players," (note the plural "some") and that the organization wanted to "have a chance [to speak with and scout] a couple of players we're interested in." So who else might the Canucks be interested in beyond Laganière? I have no actual idea obviously, but that's no fun so let's use our common sense here. Yale played two games this weekend, one against Quinnipac and another against Princeton. By quickly cross-referencing those rosters with players the Canucks have invited to their prospect development camp over the past two seasons, we can produce an interesting name: Jeremy Langlois. Langlois is a goal scoring winger and a productive Tempe Arizona product. Between Langlois and Laganière, Langlois has had the more productive NCAA career though, at six foot nothing and a 172 pounds, he doesn't possess the "NHL size" that Laganière does. Anyway, who knows who the Canucks will go after, but the club didn't sign any undrafted or college free-agents last Spring (though they did sign Evan McEneny in the late summer). The lack of any undrafted free agent signings in the Spring does, however, represent a pretty significant departure from the way Mike Gillis has previously done business (think Darren Archibald, Chris Tanev, Eddie Lack, Sebastian Erixon, Evan Oberg etc.). Sounds like the Canucks will probably be back to their usual "diamond in the rough" hunting ways this Spring though, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laxgoalie Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 He looks like a bigger version of Lappiere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Not true, we have one but AV refuses to let him play his game, trying to force him to play Vancouver's narrow breakout system. If I'm not mistaken Ballard's game in Florida was rushing the puck out of the zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar baby watermelon Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 very interesting indeed, very interesting, make it happen MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningWild Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Erik Erlendsson @erlendssonTBO 14m Confirmed #tblightning are no longer in the running for WMU free agent Dman Danny DeKeyser, signing of Sustr pretty much took care if that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 I think having our own farm team would help attract some of these college UFA's better. If any of these guys look at the situation in Chicago they'll realize they'd have a tough time getting ice-time there let alone on the Canucks. I think if things go well in the next few seasons, the Canucks can be a model team for developing college players. They already seem to have a knack of finding college gems (Tanev, McNally, Connauton, Price, Labate, Lain). They just need the development aspect to go along with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avicii Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 I think having our own farm team would help attract some of these college UFA's better. If any of these guys look at the situation in Chicago they'll realize they'd have a tough time getting ice-time there let alone on the Canucks. I think if things go well in the next few seasons, the Canucks can be a model team for developing college players. They already seem to have a knack of finding college gems (Tanev, McNally, Connauton, Price, Labate, Lain). They just need the development aspect to go along with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Connauton was a draft pick who played for the Giants prior to being drafted... Yes he played in the CCHA the year before the Giants, but that's not what you meant lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck_trevor16 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 There is a chance we will know where Laganière signs by the weekend if his team is eliminated......have high hopes he come here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonny_Bohonos_14 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 @TSNBobMcKenzie: Not likely to be a decision until tomorrow by college UFA D Dan DeKeyser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJDDawg Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Justin Shultz was drafted by the Anahiem Ducks in round 2 of the 2008 NHL entry draft. Not a undiscovered Free Agent. He lied his way onto the free agent market. Anahiem tried desperatly to sign him but his agent said, he will sign with them, but never did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck1982 Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 News1130 Sports @News1130Sports Yale forward Antoine Lagamiere will pick his NHL team quickly after - the #Canucks one of the leading contenders for his services. april 12, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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