fourtwentyfour Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 hi guys, so i always knew that the canucks had many years of bad draffting but i was watching a podcast on youtube called the hockey guy and i just found out how bad it really was. i'll link the video but here are the basic break downs of who could be playing right now for the canucks if we drafted them instead of who we picked. Anze Kopitar - Luc Bourdon Claude Giroux - Michael Grabner David Perron - patrick white Erik Karlson - Cody Hodgeson Rickard Rakell - Nickolas Jensen Tanner Pearson, Brady Skjei - Brenden Gaunce William Nylander - Jake Virtanen David Pastrnak - Jared McCann now tell me thats not a contending team. i skiped a few years of the right picks. but let me know what you guys think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallstreetamigo Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Yes it has been bad but every team can make a list like that to be fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallstreetamigo Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 The problem with the Canucks drafting hasn't been just missing impact players in the 1st round. It has been some terrible drafting (and then player development) in all the rounds. The real weakness of the Canucks has been player development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam126 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Hindsight is great isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJDDawg Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Shocking. Did not know any of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam126 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 By the way, that 2014 draft is still too early to tell. Neither Virtanen nor McCann have been showing much but they are still very young. Virtanen is looking like he's turning it around, don't know how McCann's doing but I do remember he was in the line-up at one point this season. Also I've seen some of Hockey Guy's videos and I don't really agree with him a lot. He takes the Hockey News seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 OP is a bit off-base on the Nylander-Jake comparison, Jake has not had the AHL development time yet that flamingo boy had. Sounds like Jake is picking up some good work ethic this year and I expect him to be a beast in 1-2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.I.A.H.N Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Yeah, sorry you just can't do that!.....there is lots of talent every team passes up on....... Over the long haul it has been the desire to no be in the basement that has done us in, through the 70's, 80's and most of the 90's we were a middle of the road team No elite players.....except Bure, and he was picked in the 6th round, with a whole lot of luck Too good for the basement, and not good enough for the penthouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Building Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 22 minutes ago, fourtwentyfour said: hi guys, so i always knew that the canucks had many years of bad draffting but i was watching a podcast on youtube called the hockey guy and i just found out how bad it really was. i'll link the video but here are the basic break downs of who could be playing right now for the canucks if we drafted them instead of who we picked. I'd like to request that you do a list of past winning lotto numbers so that we can reflect on all of our poor choices, and not just those of past GM's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 No offense, but that's a terrible way of looking at it. Hindsight is 20/20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck-lifer Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 They shouldn't even bring Bourdon into the conversation. That is classless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Young talent evaluation is why JB was hired as GM. The hope is that JB has more hits than his predecessors. These days teams need to build through the draft to be successful long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butters Stoch Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Pretty dumb way to look at it. Besides some of the real head-scratchers like the Virtanen and White pick, it's hard to blame JB and our previous GMs for most of those picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Soldier Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 You really need to learn to let go. Your ex-girlfriend also isn't coming back, move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallstreetamigo Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 A lot of it comes down to opportunity and development too. Would those players have developed the same way in Van? Impossible to say of course but development plays the biggest role imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam126 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 12 minutes ago, nuck-lifer said: They shouldn't even bring Bourdon into the conversation. That is classless. Yeah, I was furious that the guy even elaborated on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Sawce Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Horvat -Nishkunin how bow tha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimberWolf Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Not to defend Gillis' drafting but where he picked most the league passed on the same guys and with the exception of Bo and that stupid year he took older players he just picked the overall BPA's Also I believe Luc was the right pick. Kid just had it. Really a shame Benning, as much as I don't like his GM'ing it's too early to rate his record and Nonis sucked at everything except taking a gift from keenen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westcoasting Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 27 minutes ago, Butters Stoch said: Pretty dumb way to look at it. Besides some of the real head-scratchers like the Virtanen and White pick, it's hard to blame JB and our previous GMs for most of those picks. Why is Virtanen's spot a head scratcher when that is where he was ranked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 9 minutes ago, TimberWolf said: Not to defend Gillis' drafting but where he picked most the league passed on the same guys and with the exception of Bo and that stupid year he took older players he just picked the overall BPA's Also I believe Luc was the right pick. Kid just had it. Really a shame Agreed. Fans were getting impatient with him but he was beginning to show flashes of the player he was for Canada paired with Letang. In my opinion he was a better prospect than Juolevi (and I like Juolevi). The loss on the ice is rightly second to the loss to his loved ones, but saying Bourdon was a bad pick is ridiculous, not to mention in exceptionally poor taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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