86Viking Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 that is kinda sad. We already knew we had a good chance at signing him after having him at prospects tourney. I mean slim chance a player drafted in his spot would amount to anything at the nhl anyway. But having the nostalgia of drafting another ex canuck's kid who was younger and mroe controllable sure seemed like an easier choice. Guess we will see how JB handles Motte till the end of the year. If we don't sit him at all then he has to clear waivers next year....Would be a very poor decision to do that. Let him sit and play Goldy to protect Motte from having to clear waivers next fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred65 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Just out of interest Abols is 0.9444 pts / game while Dahlen is 1.00 both in the same league and remember Dahlens plays for the top team and as such never plays the toughest schedule. Abols plays for Borfors, third worst team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGT68 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, Fred65 said: Just out of interest Abols is 0.9444 pts / game while Dahlen is 1.00 both in the same league and remember Dahlens plays for the top team and as such never plays the toughest schedule. Abols plays for Borfors, third worst team. Actually I think they were the worst team before they added Abols and his 17 pts amd clutch play pulled them up to third worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 We should invite him to camp anyways. Sucks about Ronning, oh well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckpuckluck1 Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 The kid I liked at this pick was Tyler Soy (taken by the Ducks) who is putting up good numbers for a 7th rounder. He is also a bit bigger than Ronning at 6 foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noble 6 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 So I’m bumping this thread because in the lastest “prospects update” from the CDC mothership, Ābols is still listed as a Canucks prospect: https://www.nhl.com/canucks/news/vancouver-canucks-prospects/c-298031634 The article is penned by Canucks freelance writer Tyson Giuriato, so who know where he’s getting his information, but it’s still an official nhl.com/canucks article saying that Ābols is a Canucks prospect. I was pretty convinced our rights had expired, but there are a couple possibilities where we could have extended them (without public knowledge), so who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Ward Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Rodrigo with a goal for Latvia today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonecoldstevebernier Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Abols with the game tying goal vs Norway today. At 1:24: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyoung Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 On 2018-05-01 at 6:49 PM, Ghostsof1915 said: Ouch. Lost his rights, what could that mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 2016 draft looking like the biggest stinker of the bunch. With that said the only picks that truly matter are the first 3. We didn't have a second. But Lockwood looks solid for a 3rd rounder and Juolevi is quietly coming along nicely. Can see why they drafted Abols. Wanted to reward him for his solid showing at our camp. Shame he didn't quite build on what he had going for him and ended up dropping him all together. Oh well. 2017 draft more than made up for the poopy 2016 draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SingleThorn Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 14 hours ago, N7Nucks said: 2016 draft looking like the biggest stinker of the bunch. With that said the only picks that truly matter are the first 3. We didn't have a second. But Lockwood looks solid for a 3rd rounder and Juolevi is quietly coming along nicely. Can see why they drafted Abols. Wanted to reward him for his solid showing at our camp. Shame he didn't quite build on what he had going for him and ended up dropping him all together. Oh well. 2017 draft more than made up for the poopy 2016 draft. I think that July will ( might ) be an interesting month. Gut feeling tells me that JB will offer AHL contracts to a number of players. Abols, Candella, McKenzie, Brassard ( ? ) are all players that have Canuck value, but I think that JB really wants to keep his roster count as close to 45/ 46 as he can. I doubt that other NHL GMs rush to give out roster spots to these border line NHLers. An AHL contract might suit them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flickyoursedin Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 On 2018-05-05 at 3:25 PM, N7Nucks said: 2016 draft looking like the biggest stinker of the bunch. With that said the only picks that truly matter are the first 3. We didn't have a second. But Lockwood looks solid for a 3rd rounder and Juolevi is quietly coming along nicely. Can see why they drafted Abols. Wanted to reward him for his solid showing at our camp. Shame he didn't quite build on what he had going for him and ended up dropping him all together. Oh well. 2017 draft more than made up for the poopy 2016 draft. I didn’t know why Benning drafted overager kids that didn’t even have great stats in Abols and Stukel. Would have much rather rolled the dice on kids performing well in their draft years like Sokolov, Ronning and Sommpi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 3 hours ago, flickyoursedin said: I didn’t know why Benning drafted overager kids that didn’t even have great stats in Abols and Stukel. Would have much rather rolled the dice on kids performing well in their draft years like Sokolov, Ronning and Sommpi. Definitely, but I can see why he did take a chance on Abols. He had a good showing for us in our camp prior to his draft. Stukel I never got but that's whatever. Later round picks don't particularly matter. Sure you can hit a home run with a guy or two but that happens so infrequently I'd chop that up to mostly luck. Oh well. He had a rough 2016 draft but more than made that up for that with the next draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 4 hours ago, flickyoursedin said: I didn’t know why Benning drafted overager kids that didn’t even have great stats in Abols and Stukel. Would have much rather rolled the dice on kids performing well in their draft years like Sokolov, Ronning and Sommpi. The overager strategy remains a good one. Players drafted in re-entry years tend to return good results versus their draft position. I think they just needed to tweak their process a little. They had a strategy of drafting guys with one elite tool (like Stukel’s skating) and hoping he’d manage to improve the rest. Thankfully, they’ve moved away a bit from that one. They also rejiggered things a bit last draft by looking for later round options on undervalued draft re-entry players that the scouts liked and who also “popped” (to quote Brackett) on the analytics. This netted us Palmu and Brassard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Lockwood is good pick from 2016 even if we get 2 NHlers out of any draft is a success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZY_4_NAZZY Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 lol of course he would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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