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Here "u" go: Defensive targets for the Canucks Ryan Biech of the Athletic: Looking at a couple young defensive prospects that the Canucks target in a trade: Dante Fabbro (Nashville), Roland McKeown (Carolina), Julius Honka (Dallas), and Lawrence Pilut (Buffalo).
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Excellent post. Really like your deep dive on Gudbranson's stats. With -20 he is munching minus points like other people are munching sandwiches. In fact you don't have to look into the stats corner. It's fully sufficient to watch his game to come up with the conclusion that he is (non !)- performing. It speaks volumes that the Guddy fangroup is not even willing to enter into a discussion. Instead of responding to the stats they are attacking you as a person !! ?? Unbelieveable. Obviously you have a point. The only positives I have heard are his toughness (oh wait - haven't seen this in the road game in Florida when Matheson smashed Pettersson to the ice), his leadership and the fact that he is a great teammate. No words from Guddy's fanboys about: - his awful puckhandling - his inablitity to read plays - his heavy and sluggish feet, even forwards with average speed blow past him with ease and create 2 on 1 situations - just a handful of games in which he produced offensively - poor positioning - inability to lift the forwards stick to prevent the forward from scoring goals, it seems like that he doesn't have the power to do so What really blows me away is the fact how long it takes him to get his head up to see where his teammates are on the ice and who of them is open for a pass once he receives the puck in the own zone. It feels like it takes ages. In today's game with the agressive and relentless forecheck some top teams display you just don't have this time. Real good D-Man get the head up before they receive the puck and pass it immediately thereafter.
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specz, i really like your attitude seeking first to understand and then to be understood. You raised a couple of real good questions. I think that the real issue that Gudbranson has not lived up to expectations is the significant change in the game since he was acquired by the Canucks. NHL has more and more become a speed game which makes it more and more difficult for players like Guddy with its specific strength/weakness profile to look good out there.
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Seriously? The truth is: He had many such appearances. Would like to hear from you the positives that you have seen in Guddy's game during this season. The ability to use his fists? The ability to lay his body on opponents? Is this enough for a 1st rounder and 2nd pairing D-Man? Now it's your turn to let me know the positives in Guddy's game as the basis for a further discussion.
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excellent observation. Sounds like someone has to tell him how to use his stick in such situations. The fact that speedier guys blew past him is well known, we have already seen this against Nashville on the first goal against.
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2019 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, BC
Wolfgang Durst replied to Qwags's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
German D-Men in the NHL NHL games most memorable moments Team Uwe Krupp 729 Stanley Cup Champion 1996 Colorado Dennis Seidenberg 859 Stanley Cup Champion 2011 Boston Bruins Christian Ehrhoff 789 Stanley Cup Final 2011 Vancouver Canucks Moritz Seider ? ? ? Any Questions, folks? -
It's time for the Canuck's coaching staff to realize that there is a significant difference between the rules stated in the textbook and how the rules are applied by the refs in the game. Accoring to the department of players safety the head shot to Stecher was a legal hockey play. It's up to the Coaching Staff to send the following message to their players: If those kind of head shots are allowed by the refs and the league you players can also treat opponents the same way. Complaining is not the right way to deal with this incident.
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Are you allowed to write such things in your role as a super moderator?
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What's your take on the situation before the 2nd goal against in last night game against the Bolts? Here is my take: Some D are able to read plays, the stretch pass to the blueline which caught Guddy out of position. Some D are not able to read plays like the stretch pass. Here is the question: In which category belongs Guddy? Do you have an explanation why he was - 4 last night ?
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2019 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, BC
Wolfgang Durst replied to Qwags's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
Honka was loaned to a finnish team playing in the second tier league in Finland. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/395069/anttoni-honka -
I would really doubt that he will get a chance with the Canucks because Hughes and Juolevi are cleary ahead of him.
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2019 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, BC
Wolfgang Durst replied to Qwags's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
Don't forget the L.A. Kings - they are even worse than St. Louis and Philly. No way that the Canucks are drafting in the top 3. Right now we have 12 players in the double digit points statistic. We have much more depth at forward and more fire-power up front than last season. My best guess right now is that we pick in the range 10-20.In that range Kaliyev would be by far the best option. He is a shooter like Brock, has already a NHL frame, has great hands and can skate. -
2019 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, BC
Wolfgang Durst replied to Qwags's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
Extract from a scouting report on Kaliev: (smiley inserted by myself) Sticking with goal-scorers, over in the OHL, 2019 draft-eligible winger, Arthur Kaliyev is making some serious noise. The 17-year-old sniper has been tuning up the competition in his second CHL campaign. After scoring 31 times in 68 games last season – tops for d-1 players, he’s posted 12 goals and 19 points in 11 games to start this season. Kaliev is a nightmare from the high-slot in and despite teams knowing his penchant for shooting over distributing, he can change his angle and catch goaltenders with a heavy and deadly release. He’s peppered netminders with an average of 4.18 shots-per-game. Not the prettiest skater, the 6’2 right-winger is deceptively quick and moves around the ice well. I didn’t love some of his habits as a first-year player in 2017-18 but the more red lights he turns on the less I’m worried about them. He’s a kid that will get a lot of attention in the top half of the first round next June. -
Dahlen will have a spot in the top 6 of the Canucks team independently from Goldobin because Dahlen is a natural goal scorer. Whereas Goldobin is more of a playmaker who sets up other players. Dahlen's ability to score in a variety of ways far exceeds Goldobin's ability to finish.
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2019 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, BC
Wolfgang Durst replied to Qwags's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
Given the unexpected strong performance of the Canucks early in the season I expect them to finish in the range 18 - 22 in the final standings. Canucks need desperately top 6 scoring winger in the upcoming draft. As much as i like Baertschi and Goldobin as players I don't feel like that both of them belong in the top 6, especially with their production in this season. Assuming that the Canucks pick in the mid of the 1st round I would love to see them picking Kalievy. Here is some more information about him and it's worth to take a couple of minutes to read through: 18. Arthur Kaliyev (RW - Hamilton Bulldogs) Russian by ancestry, but American by citizenship, you’re looking at the premier goalscoring winger to come out of the OHL this season. Kaliyev is one of the youngest players in this draft class, and his talent for scoring goals is probably top 3 in the entire draft. If you just look at his advanced stats, they tell a very interesting story. He led all U17 players in goals, xG, G/60, xG/60, shots, and shots/60 by a massive margin last season. Kaliyev loves to shoot, and he will shoot from just about anywhere. And his shot is downright terrifying. It has that OMG-I-wouldn’t-want-to-be-the-defender-that-has-to-block-that kind of release that makes your mouth gape wide open the first time you see it. The best part is that he doesn’t need to telegraph it. The puck is on his stick, then it’s in the back of the net. There’s seemingly no in-between. There’s little windup or telegraph on it, and yet he gets laser-like velocity on it effortlessly, with pinpoint accuracy. In the slot, Kaliyev is a surgeon with the puck. The downside is that he’s not much of a playmaker. That’s not to say that he’s a bad passer, as he does have good vision and can set up his teammates on some nifty passing plays, but my impression of him is that he’s more of a shoot first, ask questions later type of player, and is best treated as a complimentary player that can finish plays, rather than create them himself. Beyond that, Kaliyev has fantastic skating abilities, with very fluid mechanics and excellent balance. He’s agile moving laterally, which gives him that extra room he needs to wire his shot off. His puck skills are among the best I’ve seen in the draft class. He has superb one-on-one moves, with a wide array of jukes, dekes, and dangles, and at times, looks like he has the puck on a string. Kaliyev is great at finding open ice, and has a great sense of where he needs to be in the offensive zone to get himself open for a pass. He has also already shown a lot of physical development at 6’2” and 190 lbs, and isn’t afraid to mix it up physically and use his body and strength to win puck battles. He’s great at protecting the puck, using his finesse, power, and excellent stickhandling abilities to weave around the ice, and is difficult to knock off balance. With that being said, Kaliyev isn’t as good away from the puck as he is with it. There are times where he supports his team below the faceoff dots, and gets his stick in the way of passes, but at other times, his effort in his own zone looks to me like it could improve. He could show more assertiveness in hounding puck carriers, and more effort in winning races to the puck in the boards and corners in his own end. But these issues are easily coachable. How much Kaliyev will score at the NHL level, I can’t quite tell yet, but the type of shot that he has is the type that you see with goalscorers like Stamkos or Kucherov, and unlike players like Teemu Pulkkinen, for example, he can get his shot off quick enough that I think his scoring touch will translate better at the NHL level. I’d say he projects as a power forward at the NHL level, with a ceiling of 30-40 goals per season. But he’s very boom or bust from what I’ve watched so far. That opinion might change a bit more with further viewings, however, as I’ve only watched him play twice. In many ways, he reminds me of Owen Tippett from the 2017 draft. Size: check Speed: check Skill . check. -
2019 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, BC
Wolfgang Durst replied to Qwags's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
Don't need Tryamkin back. Here comes the German Destroyer: https://www.beerleagueheroes.com/tpe-hockey-2019-nhl-draft-profile-moritz-seider-d-german-destroyer/ -
2019 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, BC
Wolfgang Durst replied to Qwags's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
Love this proposal ! You seem to be an hockey expert. Kid is playing well in the top league in Germany with the team currently sitting at the top of the rankings. -
Jim should bring back either Sestito or Kassian. Don't need Ferland to do this kind of job.
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100% agree. Each time this team really needs him and especially his toughness he is nonexistent. He was not sending a message. Useless. Plain and simple. .. Where is Zepp? Zepp usually the one being in Guddy's corner.
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Horvat: minus 3 ! Couldn't keep up with Johnny.... Further improvements in his game urgently needed.
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https://canucksarmy.com/2018/10/02/the-likelihood-of-nikita-tryamkin-returning-to-the-vancouver-canucks-according-to-nikita-tryamkin/ excellent report on Tryamkin summarizing the reasons for his return to the KHL with some statements from Tryamkin and on eloborating the chances that he will return to VAN: I like the following part of the report most: Despite Tryamkin’s sunny disposition in the April 2018 Russian-language article, the situation was a lot more ambiguous when reporter Janik Beichler attempted an interview in English a month later. Biechler reported a strange exchange in which Tryamkin twice refused to conduct the interview in English, despite previously agreeing to do so, and his tone seemed mildly hostile. As Biechler concluded, “I don’t think Tryamkin is very interested in talking to #Canucks media right now,” and that could be an indication that some tension still remains. Even after spending a full season in north america guy is still not able / or not confident enough to give an interview in English! Unfortunately, the rest of that Biechler interview hinted that Tryamkin may still have some concerns in regards to his usage in Vancouver. He doesn’t sound like he’s convinced that the issue of icetime was resolved by the firing of Desjardins, openly wondering “would I be needed?” when the time came for his potential return. This was the most blunt Tryamkin had ever been about his problems with the Canucks, outright affirming that ““The lack of ice time is the reason I decided to leave the Canucks,” and adding, “I was a first-pairing D-man in Yekaterinburg this season, so I was pretty happy there.” This sentiment was backed up by some statements made by agent Todd Diamond after the NHL Combine in June of 2018, who told Rick Dhaliwal that “I spoke…with the Canucks about Nikita and how we can approach it and maybe get ahead of it so everyone knows he is a valued person on the depth chart.” It seems obvious that, at the very least, Tryamkin is still worried that a return to Vancouver would mean more time stapled to the bench, and that doesn’t appear to be something he is interested in. He still doesn't understand that it's entirely on him getting the ice time he wants to get.
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travis on goldy: “He showed some things he can do offensively, but he’s still a young player who’s learning the NHL game. He runs into problems when he loses a puck battle in his own zone or doesn’t get a puck out. But he also brings something else to the table that we lack.”
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Expectations derive for most Canucks supporters directly from the position he was drafted. Many expected that a player selected 6th overall like Jake given his frame and his production in juniors (he scored lots of goals) would become a scoring power forward used in the top 6 in the NHL. Actually there is a huge discrepancy between those expectations and the reality. Travis used him in all of the preseason games played in a bottom 6 role. That indicates that Travis holds the view that he can utilize his strengths on a checking line best.
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If Travis thinks that Pettersson can't play center in this league Gaudette will make the roster, because using Pettersson on the wing would free up on spot at center.
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Canucks need consistency & effort from him urgently . If he doesn't show these two "ingredients" I have the fear that Travis will lose his patience with Goldy.