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  1. Good for him. I don't think there was room for him in Utica next year.
  2. I think the most impressive part of that game was there was lots to be excited about despite the absences. There was a time not too long ago that if 4 of our top 5 prospects and 6 of our top 10 prospects were not in a prospects game it wouldn't have been much to watch. I think it is amazing we have plenty of players to be excited about with no Petterssen, Demko, Juolevi, Dahlen, Jasek or Gadjovich in that game. Also no Brisebois, Chatfield. I think we all see that 8 players as prospects.
  3. I would say "he is just too unique". What I mean is I love Juolevi. But what Juolevi brings is a defenceman. We have a bunch of other defensemen and Juolevi has to earn his spot. Hughes is a rover and we don't have a rover. We drafted him because we want a rover. So if he can be a positive influence on the team with his unique style....then he makes the team over whoever they need to get rid of or send down.
  4. Actually if you read the article it is his d-1 USNTDP coach talking about Hughes playing in a game when the USNTDP team was playing against an NCAA team.
  5. I just don't understand the kids that don't have that desire to do what is necessary to make the last few steps to the NHL. I just don't get how some of them just don't get it.
  6. Like maybe Chatfield if he can develop into a guy that can be in the NHL what he was in junior.
  7. TGT68

    Brendan Gaunce | C/LW

    Yup. It is gonna be tough for Gaunce fo make the Canucks this year. He needs to outplay Schaller and Archibald or I don't see how he isn't waived to Utica and possibly lost.
  8. I don't know a lot about Havlat but I see that in Jasek's game. A guy I know more about, who overcame adversity and a lack of people believing in him and yet managed to master each level and even become a top line player was Alex Burrows. When I see how Jasek had to dominate U16 to learn to dominate U18 and then U20. How he could stick in the Czech pro leagues on the third and fourth line with little production doing the little things right and then develop into that league with a solid season last year. I was really expecting him to be back in the Czech league being a point a game guy this year coming before he surprised me and made it to Utica. I really hope he has a solid year in Utica this year coming and gets good minutes. As this kid seems to have the talent and tenacity to get to the NHL and be that third liner Benning speaks of and then just maybe, surprise us all again and show us he is really a top 6 player as he has at every level once he has adjusted.
  9. I think the signing they made the last couple days will make it harder for Gaudette and others to make the Canucks. And make it hard for other young players to make the Comets. They will need to beat the door down in preseason to make the team. We will see competition at all position in training camp this year. Beyond Gaudette we have Dahlen, Jasek, Petterssen, Demko, Juolevi, Sautner, McEneny, and maybe Hughes (if he signs) all thinking they can crack this lineup. I am not sure we have room for three rookies now, maybe two? On the other hand, some time in Utica wouldn't hurt anything but the pride of any of those young guys. And it could really help their development. And that didn't even mention Boucher, Motte and Goldobin who don't look like they have earned spots on the Canucks either.
  10. And Utica will have to send half those youngsters elsewhere because, as you say, they will not be able to develop 12 young players as once. The signings put our NHL depth back up to the levels of when we were contending. Without the quality we had then. But having 16 NHL forwards and 16 AHL forwards isn't going to let the plethora of young players we have now get the minutes they need. Something like 6 of those young forwards are going to have to play ECHL, Europe or some other kind of elsewhere. And the NHL team is going to struggle to absorb more than 1 rookie forward when at least two or three will be ready to break in this year. I think we have overstocked the cupboard with the signings yesterday. I cannot say I dislike who they signed. Just that we seem to have too many forwards now. Hopefully JB can turn a couple players into draft picks (will Sutter fetch a first round pick? hmm).
  11. yeah, cause a year in Utica counts the same as an NHL year for expansion exposure.
  12. why do these Beagle and Schaller signings make me think that Utica's top line looks like Dahlen Gaudette Boucher and still leaves Jasek, Lind, MacEwen, Darcy, D'oust, Carcone, Palmu, Motte and Gadjovich for young forwards. No vets in that 12.
  13. I would say he played both and I didnt see enough games to know if one was primarily. Any time I saw him play in junior he played left. Although I have probably only seen him play about a dozen times and always streamed and not live. Uticahockey and stonecoldsteve can probably answer better.
  14. Development of previous picks has already got competition for wingers spots pretty intense this year and more so next year.
  15. Did you notice Gadjovich has 40 for prospects camp? My guess is that means EP has moved to the 14 he has worn at times before.
  16. Yeah 3 to Hughes 2 to juolevi and 14 to petterssen.
  17. I know Tyler Soy (aka sauce) was a workhorse for Victoria Royals the last few years. Often played with other centers on the team due to a glut of them but mostly it was a Soy/Phillip's duo that played a center/wing hybrid between them with the two being aggressive puck movers. I am unsure if he has developed enough to play in the AHL with Dahlen but I can see their games being complementary in the same way.
  18. Looking at the prospect camp rosters....what would you guys think about Tyler Soy or Adam Rockwood for Utica?
  19. I would like to say that I see Brisebois as a promising young d man. Not as a Joulevi or Hughes. But a smooth skating puck moving d man with size and a conservative game. He had a solid first season of pro last year, may get some call ups this year coming, and will probably challenge for a 6, 7 or 8 spot the following year. We will see if he ever progresses to an NHL regular or top 4 d man. The jury is still out. But a solid pick he has been and steady progression we have seen.
  20. Really starting to think he really is Our Tiny Man Who Can.
  21. I really hope EP is ignoring all the "gain weight" crowd this summer and is working on becoming a faster and more explosive skater. Not that he was slow before, but that with the addition of the elite passing defensemen (Hughes and to a lesser extent Juolevi) there will be more offensive opportunities to break free and odd man rush next year and beyond. Speed and acceleration will be assets our forwards need. And more is better.
  22. some 36 players played for the Canucks last year and no one wore either number. Who'd a thought? What does Quinn wear?
  23. Anybody notice the EP thread of our actual top prospect slipped to page 2 of the threads?
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