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If we had Pastrnak, we would not be bad enough to draft Pettersson or Hughes in 2017 and 2018. So you can't have them all.
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[Signing ]. Mikko Lehtonen signs 1yr ELC w/ Leafs
ruilin96 replied to SilentSam's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Barrie will not be back next year. If season resumes, Lehtonen won't be eligible for playoffs because his signed after the TDL. Pietrangelo is a UFA but they have no cap space. -
You are wrong. The league will never suspend a Bruin, they will suspend the player he licked before they even suspend him.
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I have friends who I trust that I vent with about people and things in general when I need to. I have always keep my vent about other people base on their actions, behaviors or things they do that makes me angry. What Leipsic is doing is making degrading, sexist and hate speech related comments simply base on someone's outlook and origin of their racial group. That to me has cross the boundary. As a 25-year-old professional hockey player, he should be more mature and respectful than what has shown.
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Healthy Roussel + Healthy Ferland and hopefully team resigns Toffoli and get rid-off of Eriksson's contract. If that's the case, the team can really do some damage.
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Funny how he refers to this as the worst crew in the world, yet Jake single handedly outscored everyone in this group chat of his combined last season. I guess this crew Jake was with can't be any worst than the crew on this group chat.
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The last couple of days, this thread shown some very toxic attitudes. It is the classic "every thing is going to fall apart" base purely on speculations, rumours and heresays. As far as I know, I have been reading way too many contradictory info about the Canucks Hockey Operation Staff the last few days that I just choose not to believe either side. Either way, there are nothing we fans can do about it. We will have to wait and see how it plays out starting at the next draft.
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Everybody is going to have a bad pick, you are never going to bat at 100%. The fact that he hit on both Pettersson and Hughes the following years is more than enough to redeem the whiff he had the year before. My theory with the Juolevi pick was the Canucks as an organization was not high on Tkachuk and was thinking more base on positional need. They were targeting a 1st line center or a #1 pairing defenseman. They wanted Dubois as their center, but he was taken at #3. So right after the Duboi pick, the Canucks was basically looking at defenseman. They obviously believe OJ is the best defenseman available at the time. Remember, OJ had a tremendous WJC and Memorial Cup Championship run. He was the best defenseman on both championship teams in his draft year. As for who decided to go with Juolevi between Benning and Brackett, I am more leaning towards Benning. I was at the Canucks prospect development camp in Shawnigan Lake during the summer of 2016, and I overheard a off record conversation between Dave Tomlinson and Iain McIntyre at the side of the rink. Both of them said Benning really wanted to draft a defenseman in the first round base on the players available. And Benning had his eye on other defensemen that were picked later in the first round and was thinking of trading down to pick those players instead. A right deal never came up. From their conversation, it really seems like the team wasn't really considering of drafting a winger at all. So at #5, the team went with who they think the best defenseman available: Olli Juolevi. Base on the conversation I heard between McIntyre and Tomlinson at the time was that a defenseman that Jim Benning was interested in at the draft was apparently Jake Bean, and Jim was trying to trade down to acquire more assets and pick Jake Bean with the later pick. JB saw Jake Bean as a guy who could be powerplay defenseman put up a lot of points from the blue line.
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I don't value JD Burke. Same guy who was criticizing the Miller trade at the time and afterwards. He seems like a guy just love to stir the pot and in order to get fans to think a certain way to get more clicks. However, I do think there are differences in terms between Benning + Weisbrod and Brackett. We don't know who was the brain behind those draft picks in the last few years and we likely never will. All the fans can do is speculate and your best guess is as good as mine. I just hope whatever happens gets sorted out properly and the team can have the same vision/direction when it comes to the draft and the future. I have been really pleased with the Canucks selections from the draft table over the last 3 drafts and would definitely want that strong drafting trend to continue in the future regardless of who is in charge. For me personally, I am in favour of keeping Brackett and let him run the draft table. Since his promotion as a head of amateur scout, the Canucks draft record has been really strong. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. However, if management sees things differently, there is nothing we as fans can do about it.
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It's crazy to think about it this way, but we gave up more assets in 2011 to acquire Keith Ballard than we did in 2019 to acquire JT Miller. If only MG could find us a Miller kind of player when we gave up that package for Ballard in 2011...
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I completely understand when it comes to this until you show anything at the NHL level, I am not excited about you approach. 100% down with it. Still doesn't prevent me from looking at their stats and projecting whether or not they can make it. I definitely am more optimistic on some prospect than others when it comes to their NHL career trajectory. JB has been pretty good when picking in the top 3 rounds since he took over. I do wish he would've had more draft picks in both 2015 and 2016 when clearly we need more picks to rebuild the team. All you can ask for a GM is he hit on his early round picks and hope for some steals in the later rounds. As for OJ, he is a very smart player and injury definitely pegged him. Also I would not want Tkachuk as a Canuck even in a redraft. This guy is turtle, coward and cheapshot. He fits the Calgary Flames organization perfectly. Classless.
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"The newest toys are always the shiniest" argument is fair. As it is always easy for someone like me to have higher hope on newer prospect who just got drafted. However, for the 2016 draft class, there was never the "newest toys are the shiniest moment" for me. I had no excitement or hope of any of the guys taken after Lockwood making it to the NHL after their D+1 year. My point of 2016 being the weakest draft class is base on the fact that a year after the draft, there are already no hype around most of the guys who gotten drafted. They didn't even give me the sense of the "newest toy are shiniest." I am go back and take a look at each of the drafts under Jim Beninng, and I am going to list out who got drafted after the 3rd round that I saw the possibility of them making it to the NHL just a year after they were being drafted. And I am going to be very honest about my evaluations of those players after their D+1 year. 2014: Gustav Forsling A year after the 2014 draft (at that point he is no longer a Canucks prospect), Gustav Forsling was a guy I think will make it to the NHL. I thought he will be a regular top 4 NHL defenseman in his prime. He did make it eventually, although he isn't a regular and is likely more of a fringe NHLer bounce between NHL and AHL. I definitely had higher hopes on him than what he currently shown. 2015: Carl Neil, Adam Gaudette and Lukas Jasek After their D+1 year, I thought both Neil and Gaudette shown good progression which leads me to believe they should make it to the NHL. I was horribly wrong for Car Neil as he was not even offered a contract. I was just being too optimistic and and hope we could get an offensive puck-moving defenseman out of a 5th round pick. Lukas Jasek was a guy I think could potentially make it base on the fact that he was already playing against men a young age. Right now, Jasek is with Utica and we will see if eventually makes the transition into the NHL. Adam Gaudette had a bad start to his rookie NCAA season, but finished off the season very strong. After his first NCAA season, I thought Gaudette would probably be in the NHL one day. I wasn't sure if he will be in the top 6 or bottom 6, but I think he had a very good chance to make it. Very glad to see Gaudette as a regular with the big boys now. 2016: None By 2017, none of Cole Candella, Jakub Stukel, Rodrigo Abols nor Brett McKenzie gave me the sense that they are going to make it. Although looking at their stats and where they are now, I wasn't too far off. Though, Abols may make it as a bottom 6 energy player at some point base on where he is now. At the time, I wasn't excited for any of them. 2017: Petrus Palmu and Jack Rathbone A year after the 2017 draft, I thought Petrus Palmu was a steal in the later rounds for us. I thought he was definitely going to make it to the NHL with his high energy style of play. Jack Rathbone is base on the report that if he had chosen to play in the NCAA immediately after his draft, he would've been a 2nd round pick. I think I am way off with Palmu, but Rathbone does seem very promising. 2018: Toni Utunen He is definitely a long shot. The style he plays does not generate much offense, but as of a year ago, I thought he could make it as a defensive defenseman playing on the 3rd pairing in the league. It is still too early to determine whether or not he is going to make it or not. 2019: Aidan McDonough, Karel Plasek, Arvid Costmar We are right about 1 year after they got drafted. However, among the later round picks, I think these 3 have the highest chance of making it to the NHL.And I am aware all 3 are a long shot. McDonough had great NCAA numbers (even as an overager for his draft). Costmar is doing very well in Sweden and have gotten some SHL pro-games under his belt. Karel Plasek is also base on the fact that he is already playing against men and hopefully he can potentially be a bottom 6 player in the NHL. I am here to prove that, yes, like most people, I do have the "newest toy is the shiniest" moment among our prospects. However, for the 2016 draft, there just wasn't even one after their D+1 year. That was the point I was trying to make. For every other draft class, there was atleast a sense of excitement, although a lot of the excitement didn't really end up anywhere. But for 2016, the excitement was never there.
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[Signing] Bruins re-sign Jaroslav Halak
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
I hate the majority of the 2011 Bruins roster/core and still do and will hate them til the day I die. For the most part, I hated Marchand, Lucic, Thornton and Ferrence, as of right now 3/4 of this list is no longer in the organization, the guy that is still left is the guy I hate the most. However, I really like the new wave of young Bruins like McVoy, Pastrnak and DeBrusk. I will say when Marchand is gone for the Bruins, it will be the day Boston don't make my least favorite team list. On the flip side, the Flames is a team I will hate for eternity. As long as that logo exist, I would like to spit on it. -
I think Miller is having very positive impact on Jake's career. No secret that Jake is playing his best hockey this season as he is getting tips from a veteran like Miller.
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So I went in here for some Jim Benning content, and I had to double check to make sure I didn't went into the Jared McCann thread by accident.
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That would happen, but if you miss year after year after year like we did with Nonis and Gillis, then something is wrong with the process. JB's worst draft is 2016 (not talking about picking Juolevi too high) I am talking about overall, the later round picks just don't seem to have much of a chance of making the NHL even when they got drafted initially. Unlike the 2017, 2018 and 2019 draft, you can see where some of these later round picks could end up as NHLers at the time they got drafted, but you never get that sense with the later round picks in 2016. For later round picks, I am referring to picks after the 3rd round.
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[Signing] Canucks sign Nils Hoglander
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
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[Signing] Canucks sign Nils Hoglander
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
After scoring a hat trick in the first 10 min in the game (including a lacross goal), the goalies both went down and he went in net and shut the door for a team shut out. He is your first, second and third star of the game! -
[Signing] Canucks sign Nils Hoglander
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Hey Markstrom, your countryman is coming for your job -
[Signing] Canucks sign Nils Hoglander
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Pettersson is going to have a Swedish teammate his age to hang out with very soon! -
Even if we were to trade him, it should never be now. His value is very low atm, atleast let him play some games at the NHL level and get some evaluation before making any decisions.
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NHL Draft to remain in June (Proposed)
ruilin96 replied to aGENT's topic in General Hockey Discussion
One or the other: Resume the season, play some sort of games/playoffs, award the cup, draft then free agency. Cancel the season officially, and then just head straight to draft and free agency while coming up with some sort of plans to recuperate the loss of the buyers at this year's TDL.