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  1. I was thinking that, a solid 3rd liner and if developed correctly and taking the next steps in advancing the skillset he does have he might be able to reach 2nd line production in a complementary role during his prime, like a Higgins or Burrows. I don't think he has the offensive game to drive the offense at the NHL level, however. What he does have is hockey IQ and a good shot, and if he can use his size and strength more and position himself in the dirty areas he could have a couple seasons with 2nd line production.
  2. I think Gaunce has a legitimate shot at being a defense-first 3rd liner that can consistently put up points, but maybe also has an outside shot at developing into a quality two-way 2nd liner capable of 40-50 points in his prime.
  3. The difference between Hutton and Juolevi is that Hutton played in a man's body, whereas Juolevi is still an 18 year old kid. Meaning Hutton, although still needing to put on muscle, has most if not all his body structures fully developed. Juolevi, on the other hand, still has his body structures developing. Defencemen are prone to hits despite their playstyle. Some get hit more than others. I wouldn't want my future stud defenseman getting eaten alive in the corners and developing recurring back or shoulder issues later on in his career. Especially out in here in the Pacific Division where we face Lucic, Kassian, Brown, King, Ferland (is he still with Calgary?), Getzlaf, Kesler, Stewart. etc. every so often? If he does well at camp, then reward him with max 9 NHL games, professional-level training and coaching, and NHL salary. Give him a taste so he gets even hungrier, but also limit the amount of risk you subject him to. Plays elusve among junior aged players, who most likely do not play at the NHL speed and pace. He could very well take some hits as he starts out, as he adjusts to the pro speed and pace.
  4. I think he needs to be back down in junior with the London Knights. He still has a lot to prove down there. Yes, he has won World Junior Gold, OHL Championship, and the Memorial Cup, but he still meeds to prove that he can handle a mkre focused role and drive and create offense from the back end. As well, this past season fellow draftee Mikhail Sergachev was the OHL Defenseman of the Year. If Juolevi does consider himself better than Sergachev and Chychrun, he will for sure be trying to prove it. The kid will be a gem for sure, and having him in North America and the London organization for another year will help him moreso than being in Europe. The physicality, fast-paced game, and limited decision making times will help him more than playing in a low-physicality, open-ice league against men. I think anyways. Well I mean, that's why we have questions about Euro-league players right? If they can adapt to the size and speed and physicality of the North American game.
  5. Keep him up for all of the preseason, then send him back down to London. It'll be adifferent team, with Dvorak out and Marner likely to be in the NHL considering he's on a totally different level above all other CHL players. I read somewhere on the interwebs today that Roslovic from the Jets might go to London instead of staying in the NCAA. It'll be a different looking offense if both Dvorak and Marner are in the NHL and Roslovic plays in London. Juolevi should see more of the offense running through him.
  6. He'd be a better scorer there but Willie might want him on the right side for him to learn a more cycle and grind puck protection and possession game. We definitely have enough on the rght wing though considering Rodin and Burrows. I'd love to see Jake on the LW around the faceoff dot during the powerplay though! He had a wicked pro-level shot in junior and I'm sure it's gotten harder as he's bulked up. Imagine the one-timers.... *droool* Back to Rodin, I really wonder what management and coaching will do with him. Will he be given a spot because of him being the SHL MVP or will he have to earn it?
  7. I think Virtanen did in junior when he played for the Hitmen.
  8. Plenty of bottom 6 forwards, especially knowing that Burrows will be back for his final year and Virtanen may very will stick with the big club. Baertschi - Horvat - Virtanen Etem - Granlund - Burrows Where does Gaunce fit in? Dorsett? What about the Swedish League's MVP Rodin? Will he be in a top-6 role?
  9. Adam Gaudette went from 5th round pick to 2nd line point-per-game centre on a championship Northeastern team as a freshman. What do you guys think his ceiling or potential is given his exceptional development this past year? Two-way middle 6 centre if he continues his development?
  10. Found this on the Canucks website. Really good insight on Gaudette's year. - Started off the year slow, then played at just over a point/game pace from January 1 onwards, scoring 25 points in his final 23 games - Two-way centre that can play in all situations, but particularly stood out in 5 on 5 play - 6'1" and 170 lbs, but plays with a non-stop motor. - "My parents really put that through me and my brother's brains" Gaudette said. "It's how we grew up. We were taught to work hard at what you do and you will get great results." - Plays well in big games, scoring a goal and an assist against Thatcher Demko and BU in in the semifinals, then scored another goal in a win in the Championship Game against UMass-Lowell. http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=888674&utm_source=social&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_campaign=
  11. Hoping for at least one of Eriksson, Ladd, or Brouwer.

  12. Ohlund was a physical beast. I remember when I was young I wanted to play hockey like him stylistically, but mind you I was little skinny kid so that didn't work out so well for me hahaha When he moved to Tampa Bay I remember watching one of their games against Toronto on TV and I had a big "HOLY S***" moment. Such a warrior, he did that at the tail end of his career with all the knee injuries too! Our new Olli very likely won't be a physical beast, but he'll be a real beauty like the old Olli
  13. I think you're getting at the right wording Alf! Like how there are by default 30 number one centremen in the NHL. Us fans typically use "elite #1 centre" to differentiate between a default #1 centre and someone who is much much better, like a Jonathan Toews vs Travis Zajac kinda deal. Benning seems to use "true #1 defenseman" to differentiate between a normal, default #1 or top pairing defenseman and someone is a significant talent and one of the league's best, like a Duncan Keith vs Andrej Sekera kinda deal. Semantics aside, Juolevi's floor is pretty much top-pairing right? With the potential to be a true #1?
  14. Signed as a UFA at age 28. His contract is downright ridiculous, 13 years at $98M, for an average cap hit of $7.5M/yr I agree with Deniro. I'd much rather draft a stud defenseman, have him develop alongside our core to make them better too, and have him at a discounted cost. We could always sign a first line forward in free agency, there's usually a handful every year and we wouldn't need to spend $100M on him either.
  15. Defense is gonna be stacked if he makes the team next season. Even if he just gets the 9 games alternating in and out of the lineup we'll have waiver problems. Edler - Tanev Hutton - Gudbranson Juolevi - Tryamkin Sbisa - Larsen Pedan - Biega I'd like for him to get a taste of the NHL but definitely send the kid down for at least 1 more year for him to develop more.
  16. We've come a heck of a long way in just a year. I remember at the start of last season our entire defense prospect core with a decent shot of becoming an NHLer was Frank Corrado, with unknowns and question marks in Subban, Hutton, and Tryamkin. Now look at it. Benning traded for a former 3rd overall pick Gudbranson who is already a full time top 4 defenseman. Hutton and Tryamkin are NHLers, with Hutton representing Canada and winning gold at the World Championships. Benning signed Stecher, who won the NCAA championship. He then drafted Juolevi, who won the World Junior Gold, OHL championship, and the Memorial Cup. Defense wins championships, and Benning is building a defense core that has already won them.
  17. I trust Benning's scouting. If I recall correctly, a few months ago Benning said that if all things were equal and there was a #1 forward position and #1 defenseman available to draft, he would go with the defenseman. BUT, at that time he didn't believe there were any #1 defenseman available in this draft, which led many of of us to believe he would go for the #1 forward position in Dubois or Tkachuk. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, after the CHL Playoffs and Memorial Cup, and Benning said he had a defenseman in his top 6 draft list, and believed that there may be a #1 defenseman after all. Scouting consensus is that Tkachuk will likely be a #1 LW, but despite that Benning picked Juolevi instead. I can only assume that Benning believes that Juolevi has the potential to one day be a #1 defenseman. Benning made an excellent pick. He got the consensus best defenseman, who many consider to have the highest floor, and who he may consider to have the greatest potential to reach that high #1D ceiling.
  18. People expect rentals like Hamhuis and Russell to fetch a quality prospect and a 1st, but cry when we give up a quality prospect and a 2nd for Gudbranson who is just as good now, who will only get better, and who we can potentially have for the next decade. Makes sense.

    1. Green Building

      Green Building

      Gudbranson will shine here, but people will never let go. Every point McCann gets (I like the guy and I hope he gets a lot of them) they'll go "See? See!" until faces turn blue.

       

      CDC is classic turvy topsy.

       

       

  19. He'll get bigger and cut down by the pre-season. I think Horvat did the same thing last year? That said, Virtanen playing physical this past season was impressive. Imagine him with an added 10-15 pounds of muscle. Outright scary for the opposition.
  20. Prolly not, but it might likely be pretty close to a normal distribution. For every Boris Valabik there's a Cory Conacher. For every Tyler Myers a Brendan Gallagher. And for every Zdeno Chara a Martin St. Louis. I think player sizes are fairly similar within an average and there are outliers on both ends. Decent enough assumption considering no hardcore statistics on anthropometric tables for NHL players.
  21. Interesting. Very interesting. According to the research, the average height and weight for the 2014-2015 season was 6'1" and 201 lbs. Ever more interesting is the standard deviation of 2" and 15 lbs. By the definition of standard deviations in statistics, 68% of the normal distribution will lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean (or average). Essentially, 34% of all players will be 2" and 15 lbs above the average NHL player size of 6"1" and 201 lbs, and an additional 34% of all players will be below 2" and 15 lbs of the average NHL player size. In simple terms, 68% of all players in the NHL will be between 5'11" and 186 lbs to 6'3" and 216 lbs. 16% of players will be smaller than that range and an additional 16% of players will be bigger than that range. Only 16% of all NHL players are bigger than 6'3" and 216 lbs. That said, in the realm of a sport heavily based on movement and physics weight (and muscle) is the main factor in "size" as weight directly contributes to force and momentum. Assuming that Troy Stecher can physically handle a player that is 24 lbs heavier than him, one can assume that his size isn't of major concern as he will be able to physically handle 84% of all NHL players. It will look even more promising taking into the account of NHL trends, such as the fact that it is becoming more and more of a young man's game based on skill and speed, both of which are or favour smaller players, and that Stecher may play closer to or around 200 lbs when he does make it up to the big club. TL;DR: When it comes to Troy Stecher, kinda how but not really like my girlfriend said to me, "size isn't a concern."
  22. I'm thinking he stays on with the club for at least a few years to see what he has. I hope we can win the third lotto position (at worst) so that we can draft Puljujarvi, then have a third line of Granlund, Horvat, and Puljujarvi. That'd be a real good two-way line with some size and speed and creativity with the puck.
  23. If only we could draft Fabbro with our second round pick. He didn't rank in the top 30 from ISS but Craig Button thinks really highly of him, enough so to rank him at #13. It's probably the BCHL factor but I think Fabbro is gonna be a realy good top-4 guy.
  24. So who stays on the bug club between Biega, Larsen, and Stecher? Or are we expecting Stecher to be at Utica for a bit? Edler - Tanev Hutton - Tryamkin Sbisa - Biega? Pedan - Larsen? Stecher?
  25. Thought he looked good today. Second straight game over 20 minutes; 2 hits, no blocked shots. Good stick work, some nice pushback, and I can't recall any mistakes. Seems solid as a defender, but I'd like to see a bit more offense from him in the last stretch. Feed the big man some one-timers on the point and have guys crash the net. I think his play right and his impending improvement warrants a Hamhuis extension. Edler, Tanev, Hamhuis, and Tryamkin would do well shutting down the other team's top lines, leaving Hutton and maybe the other KHL import Larsen to generate offense from the backend.
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