Lui's Knob Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 With both darting to Europe do we still own bill Sweatt and Anton rodins rights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 yes, but not for much longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vancouvercanucks#1 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Man remember when these two were some of the most exciting Canuck prospects we had? The only thing that made that okay was that we had a Stanley Cup calibre team at the time.. But looking back now, it was a serious deficit since in the cap world, if you don't draft right, you are not going to contend for a long time. Every contender has replaced role players with great young players and so on. That's where Gillis and this core went downhill. We needed guys to step up, but we had the likes of Rodin and Sweatt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BanTSN Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 With Rodin it was a pure small skill pick, but then we inexplicably passed on Tatar. Sweatt wasn't ever going to amount to much. Can't depend on other teams' castoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoosh Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Man remember when these two were some of the most exciting Canuck prospects we had? The only thing that made that okay was that we had a Stanley Cup calibre team at the time.. But looking back now, it was a serious deficit since in the cap world, if you don't draft right, you are not going to contend for a long time. Every contender has replaced role players with great young players and so on. That's where Gillis and this core went downhill. We needed guys to step up, but we had the likes of Rodin and Sweatt. This is so true. I think their time with the Vancouver Canucks is up. Time to look forward to new challenges. That was yet another one of the GMMG era experiments. No pun intended as he drafted pretty far away from the top at the time. But guys that didn't pan out none the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herberts Vasiljevs Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 With Rodin it was a pure small skill pick, but then we inexplicably passed on Tatar. Sweatt wasn't ever going to amount to much. Can't depend on other teams' castoffs.What the hell did you know at the time about Rodin and Tatar??Speaking of Tatar, don't you usually bash players who are European or under six feet and under two-hundred pounds?Troll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOHORVAT53 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Actually Tatar was a guy CDC wanted badly after he put up an awesome World Junior Tournament, similar to Marco Dano last season.. Just like fans wanted Perron, Kopitar, Nichushkin, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lui's Knob Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 So.... We do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devoted Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Actually Tatar was a guy CDC wanted badly after he put up an awesome World Junior Tournament, similar to Marco Dano last season.. Just like fans wanted Perron, Kopitar, Nichushkin, etc. It's true. I had Tatar all queued up that draft as well. My spirits were buoyed when Gillis said they had wanted to take Rodin in the 1st round until Schroeder fell into their laps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOB for MVP Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Rodin's a bust Sweatt was never going to be more than an AHL player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho_Path Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Actually Tatar was a guy CDC wanted badly after he put up an awesome World Junior Tournament, similar to Marco Dano last season.. Just like fans wanted Perron, Kopitar, Nichushkin, etc. I recall a general consensus of contentment with the Bourdon pick at the time in the prospects forum. Can't recall anyone bringing up Kopitar's name at the time. Mixed nuts on Horvat vs Nichushkin. Most people that did pay attention to young players before the draft did want Perron over White though. And yes, there was disappointment that we didn't draft Tatar, but Rodin looked to be a solid pickup. I still think he has the talent to be at worst a 3rd liner if he was interested in developing in the A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucklehead44 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I recall a general consensus of contentment with the Bourdon pick at the time in the prospects forum. Can't recall anyone bringing up Kopitar's name at the time. Mixed nuts on Horvat vs Nichushkin. Most people that did pay attention to young players before the draft did want Perron over White though. And yes, there was disappointment that we didn't draft Tatar, but Rodin looked to be a solid pickup. I still think he has the talent to be at worst a 3rd liner if he was interested in developing in the A. I remember a lot of people bringing up Kopitar, but there was huge excitement over Bourdon as well. Here are the fan picks from my memory: 2003 - Jeff Tambellini (replace Naslund) 2004 - Mark Fistric (trade down but no real consensus) 2005 - Anze Kopitar 2006 - Chris Stewart? 2007 - David Perron 2008 - Cody Hodgson 2009 - Jordan Schroeder 2011 - Boone Jenner/David Musil (most were happy with Jensen) 2012 - Brendan Gaunce/Henrik Samuelsson 2013 - Valeri Nichuskin (after the fact), Hunter Shinkaruk at 24 if he dropped I found Nonis and Burke went off the board a bit more and it paid off with Kesler and Schneider although I remember in 2004 there were no players we really wanted, a lot of talk about trading down. Gillis picked the BPA and more or less selected amongst the players we wanted (other than Rodin over Tatar). The bolded players were the ones I remember people flipping out about. In 2003 a lot of fans also wanted Anthony Stewart, a few Corey Perry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 So.... We do? not since July 1st, but we did as of the date the Q was asked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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