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  1. Problem is an 18-year-old Junior can sign a professional contract and be send back to their Junior club and play there. You can't sign a NCAA player and then send them back to college. The Junior player can be signed and then sent back to his Junior team and his NHL club holds all the playing cards. While the NCAA player will simply attend prospects camps and then gets send back to his college hockey team without a professional contract. In this case, the NCAA player has a lot more leverage than the Junior player. Plus, the NCAA player has more of an incentive of playing all 4 years, because he is attending school in the same time. Four full years means he gets his degree (these players often get scholarships for their contribution in sports and it's like having a free college education and it is a huge plus). Meanwhile, Junior players don't get paid for playing in Junior and they are much more eager to get out of Junior and turn professional so they can start to make some income. In this case, a Junior player is less likely to hold out and wait until his 4th year to become a free agent. In many ways, there are a lot more advantages for the NCAA player to wait 4 years than the Junior player and NCAA players holds more leverage when it comes to contract negotiation with their NHL teams who own their rights.
  2. Going to watch Kole Lind tomorrow night live when the Rockets visit the Royals! Will wear my Canucks colour at the game!
  3. Way too many people on this board gets to hung up on Sergachev because of the offensive point totals he is putting up. Sergachev step into a perfect situation in Tampa Bay. Where he can be groom by their veteran defensive core lead by Viktor Hedman. If you look at the ice-times for the the 6 Tampa Bay D-men who played atleasat 41 Games this season, Sergachev is 6th among that group in terms of ice time per game, only average at 15:53, which is even lower than Braydon Coburn. Cooper in Tampa Bay knows Sergachev's defensvie deficiency as he is still developing his 200 ft game, he uses Sergachev as a PP sepcialist, and shelter his ice-time. Recently, he was even a healthy scratch in one of the games they played. If Sergachev were to be here, he would not have the right players to groom and shelter him and his weaknesses will be exposed much more. He would be exciting to watch when he is with the puck, but when you want him to defend a 2 on 1 or 3 on 2 situation, he will likely get burned a lot (considering how many odd-man rushes against we are getting every game, Sergachev will probably already be south of -15 if he plays here). I am not trying to bash on Sergachev and I have no doubt when he rounds out his game, he will be a fantastic player in the future. However, that does not mean Olli Juolevi is not a good player. The two simply play 2 different style of game. Olli Juolevi is the smooth, safe and quick transitioning game where Sergachev is more explosive and adventurous with the puck and joins the rush more. For regular every day fans who just wants to watch some run and gun hockey with lots of offense, they will probably think Sergachev is the better player. However, Olli's game style is a style the coaches like a lot more. He got the offense in him (he is actually on an historic pace when it comes to teenage D-man's points per game in the Finnish league) and he can also play very well defensively. If the team is down a goal with 2 minutes left in the 3rd, the coach will throw him out there to help create a chance to generate the tying goal. If the team is up a goal with less than 2 minutes left, he will probably be out there the full 2 minutes to defend and limit the opposition's chances to attack. They are essentially 2 very different players happens to be playing in the same position. I am not saying Olli is better than Sergachev or Sergachev is better than Olli. It is still way too early to tell. Defenseman takes time to develop in most cases, and some are more ready than the other at a young age. Just ask Oilers fans a couple years back, they probably would of said in 2013 they should of drafted Ristolainen instead of Nurse. However, Nurse prove to be a late boomer and if you ask the Oilers fans now, the answer would be very different. Simply, we will be patience with Olli Juolevi. His style of play is perfect for a modern day defenseman. Smooth skating, good vision and tremenouds hockey sense always making the safe play. He may be better than Sergachev in his prime or he may be not. Right now, it is too early to draw to a conclusion. Just because once already made it to the NHL doesn't mean he is the better player. We simply just have to be patient and support our guy. Using perfect hindsight, the only D-man drafted after Juolevi that I think the Canucks should of selected is probably Charlie McAvoy in Boston (he was drafted 14th overall, and is the 4th defenseman selected in his draft). But that is hindsight, everybody can build a dynasty team with hindsight drafting. Just like atleast 15+ GMs in the 2015 draft would be kicking themselves for not have used their pick to select Boeser. I don't think we selected the wrong guy in Olli Juolevi, we simply should not come up with a conclusion until we have seen all these guys make it to the NHL and have played a minimum of 300 Games each before we come up with any conclusion.
  4. Going to the game tomorrow will be fun. I am gonna hope to be part of the "MVP" chant
  5. Politics because OJ was the captain of team Finland's World Junior in 2016 when he host a player only meeting, boycotting the coaching staffs after 3 straight losses, which resulted in the firing of Team Finland's head coach. He was the captain and was seen as a rebel and the Finnish hockey associates might dislike him because of it. It is more of politics against OJ rather than politics against the Canucks. Regardless of which NHL team OJ was drafted by, he would probably miss the Olympics because of his actions in the 2016 World Juniors. It was also the reason why as last year's captain, OJ wasn't even given a letter in this year's World Juniors.
  6. Man, he is gonna love playing with Alex Edler on the PP
  7. Man, congrats to him! Just imagine him on a line with McDavid at the All Stars games, they could lead Pacific Division to win it all and bring in an extra $1 million for all the players tos hare.
  8. I see him as 3rd line center who can play top 6. Reason being, successful contenders are very deep down the middle. And the best situation for the Canucks is to have a dynamite offensive top line made up of Pettersson and Boeser (Pettersson as the 1st line center) and be the primary line for offense. Bo Horvat centering the 2nd line who can also score but also takes more of a defensive responsibility. Gaudette would do pretty much the same, centering a 3rd line, but a 3rd line that is dangerous and can take advantage of weaker opposition lines. That gives the team atleast 3 lines that are threats to score. Gaudette will also get Powerplay time to rack up the offense. He can still get 20 goals and 50 points as a 3rd line center.
  9. Hope Canada wins 4-3 tomorrow and Pettersson gets all 3 goals for Sweden (maybe Gadjovich with one if the Canadian goals as well), then that will be the ideal result for tomorrow
  10. We still live in a world that the last name is more important than the actual performance. Oh well EP, you are our MVP
  11. Definitely showed signs why he didn't do very well translating his game to the professional level. He can take advantage of junior players on weaker national teams, but a lot of the mistakes he made and decision with puck is very glaring. He gets so much attention because of his father and brother's success in the NHL.
  12. Olli should of tried the move he did in prospects camp instead of just shooting
  13. Now heading to a shootout, what a stupid way to determine who advances! I understand the necessary of shootouts in group games/regular season games form time contraints, but when it's round robin/playoffs, let them play until somebody scores.
  14. The way TSN has been talking up Juolevi this game, it's almost like he is a Leafs prospect But he is playing a very solid game today
  15. That. And also I think he is a guy that really stress on don't want to give up a goal against (hence playing defense) when he was on the ice. And at the start of the tournament he is still getting used to his new team and a new system, he rather plays it safe and focus on not giving up goals before thinking to create offence. And as soon as he starts to figure out the system and get some chemistry with his teammates, he starts to do more and generate more offence.
  16. He ended up with an assist and a +2 rating. Pretty solid game from him all around. It must sting to have lose the game with minutes left in regulation after working so hard to tie the game. They could atleast use a point to face a weaker opposition in first round of the elimination.
  17. Willie D coaching style
  18. He also went on the criticize Heisakanen for doing the same thing, shooting from the perimeters on the PP. To me the downfall for Finland is not enough skill forwards to work with the stack D they have got. A lot of the times, these offensive minded defenseman often felt the pressure to generate offense themselves. Hence that's why they are shooting more and hope to get one in.
  19. We have Bo Horvat on the 2nd line. Bo to me is a guy that turns up a notch and would be one of the hardest working and clutchest player in the playoffs. To me Pettersson and Boeser line will carry the team for much of the regular season and once the playoff starts, Bo will be the driver of the bus that take us to promise land. Washington lacks someone with the character and skill of Bo Horvat when Backstrom and Ovie are being tightly checked.
  20. Good to see some members on CDC finally realizing the good stuffs he does on the ice. Reading a few pages back, there seems to be a concern of him not putting up the numbers and stats to back him up. And here are some of the thoughts I have to share. I wrote this in the Canucks vs Kings GDT in response to a poster who is criticizing Olli's game for his play in the tournament and here were the points I made. Boeser in the WJC in his draft+1 year only has 1G 2A only 3 points in 7 GP. Other forwards who were scoring close to or above a point per game pace on the same team includes Christian Dvorak, Nick Schmaltz, Sonny Milano and Colin White. Now you tell me, will you trade Boeser in a 1 for 1 situation for any of those guys I mentioned who outscored him in the tournament on the same team? The answer is easily a No. Because in a short tournament, players can get hot, or gets instant chemistry with their linemates and all of a sudden can score in bunches and make them look much more dominant than they actually are. In the same time, a good player may be playing well for the whole tournament but is snake bitten, lack of luck or chemistry with linemates and make them look mediocre. It also depends on what role is the player is given in such short tournament. In Olli Juolevi's case, he isn't be utilize as an offensive D-man, he is utilize as their shut-down D to slow and neutralize opposition attacks. Since Finland has other offensive minded D-man in Heiskanen, Valimaki and Jokiharju to be counted onto generate offense, Olli is given the other job to mainly play the safe game and cover for his D partner when his partner goes onto join the rush. When evaluating a prospect in the WJC, it's more important to look at the fundamental of their games (i.e. do they make the right decision with and without the puck; how they position themselves; do they understand/process the game at a high level etc.) instead of merely focusing on the points, goals and stats that they are putting up. Take another example, Cody Hogdson and Jordan Schroeder both led the tournament in points and where are they now? One has retired and the other never likely will be a NHL regular. Goals, Assists and Points could be fun for a prospect and get us fans excited, the more important part is how he plays and how he gets those points. Sometimes a player plays well and gets stats to back it up (i.e. Elias Pettersson in this tournament) and sometimes they play well but don't have the stats to back it up (i.e. Olli Juolevi and the 2016 Brock Boeser) and sometimes their stats are infalted because of luck and chemistry with linemates (i.e. Jordan Schroeder and Cody Hogdson). As far as I am concern, I think Olli plays his role well and does exactly what his coach asks him to do. I would love to see him on the score sheet more, but if he is playing his role and playing it well, I am not concern with him not factor in the score sheet as often as we hope to see.
  21. On a side note: very impress with the Davidsson-Steen-Soderlund line for Sweden.
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