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Party pooper here. Kemmel>Lekkerimaki I'd like to see Lekkerimaki prove he is > Kemmel before we pat ourselves on the back. To me that's min 25g over 52. To come close to the 36g pace over 72 Kemmel put up last year in the AHL. 8G in 14 playoff to lead all rookies. If we extrapolate Kemmels 14g in 28games or 36g over 72 which would tie him 1 shy of 1st in goal scoring amongst AHLers. Of course this is just "pace" We will see what he does this year. Could we use a goal scoring pest in our top 9 right now?? How good would JK look on Miller's wing? Cough Beauvellier, Brock, Garland conundrum aside. My guess is that we start to see Kemmel get NHL games this year and put up NHL goals and gain a rep for agitating NHL players maybe even get his first NHL suspension out of the way haha. We could use a Ruutu on our squad. While Lek's is still what 2 or more years out? I'm really hoping Leks turns out and I have egg all over my face. Right now I have a hard time getting excited on Lekks I wish I shared your exuberance. To me he's a perimeter flyweight I can't see him playing w Pete and Miller needs guys who play the wall like Pearson did hopefully that's Pod and maybe Lek could fit on the other side? I have a hard time seeing where he fit's in our long term top 6. He's a bit more of what's already ailing our club soft perimeter winger's. So far Bains/Raty look like the best FWD prospects MGMT has added cudo's those were shrewd acquisitions. I'll be watching a good amount or Orebro this year hopefully he will grow on me and I'll start to see this player you saw at 7oa. What I want to see is him take ice not just operate in the ice given to him because he won't have that ice given to him in the NHL.

This is it though. Klim could benefit from EP's push pull fulcrum snap or what I affectionately refer to as the "happy Gilmore" where the power is generated by the top hand building energy through the sitck much earlier . Hughes may be better served to work w Garland or Alfy who generate power much differently than EP and instead use a lower drive hand late pull technique. Scroll up to see what I mean.

Really though if Alvin doesn't get a proper backup. They start Demko too much he goes down and they Di Pietro Silovs development it will be an epic fail. It doesn't take a clairvoyant to see how this is going to go if we can't get Demkos starts down.

I would love to take a stab at Akira Schmid. The kid looks legit. Not sure what it would cost? Klimovich and NJ's 4th back? NJD Just signed Kallgren they have Brennan and Daws in the pipe. Alternatively if they send Akira down I think he's got something like 27 exempt pro games left maybe we pluck Kallgren who would have to pass waivers I believe?

Like I said Klim ain't gonna make it on skill alone hopefully he doesn't go the way of Kravtsov.

Danila 6'2 205 Pod 6'1 190 Danila also needs to "Let it hang"

Thats why Benning drafted him after his 5G WJC performance. I don't think he will make it on skill alone though I'd like to see him get his nose dirtier this year.

Ya I'm gonna have to disagree on that. Garly can rip it. The release on this snap Hughes doesn't shoot like this on his best day. Now I'm not saying he has an elite one timer don't be silly but it's definitely not a muffin and if Hughes could shoot like Garland he'd be a lot more dangerous. Hughes will never shoot like Weber but he may be able to learn a thing or 2 from Garland on how to generate a bit more pop at his stature.

Wonder if the Sedins could twist Daniel Alfredsson's arm to work w Huggy on his shot. Alfy had a cannon. Another option though a right handed shot may be Garland I remember John and John mentioning Garly clapped one 98mph which is remarkable it's not Chara but Garlands mechanics may be more what Quinn needs to put some pop in his shot. That being said Salo had a bomb but he did the most damage by just getting well timed and placed pucks through.

I am sincerely hoping that with only 17 games of waiver exemption remaining we can make a play for Sillinger.

Theres a book on Martin now. He was ok when he was an unknown but teams did their homework on him. Unless Clark can fix him getting deep in his net when he moves laterally he will continue to get lit up.

I'm more trawling for guys who could be a long term solution to our depth at C. I agree though Comtois has serious red flags regarding WJC if he's cleared maybe but that goes back to Alvin absolutely has to find a way to make some room on the wings and shed some cap. I would love to add a Cole Smith, Sammi Blais, but Alvin has to put his big boy pants on and trade a 1ply winger. Sillinger/Lavoie in addition to Raty would be a step towards fixing our teams foundation instead of sprayfoaming it with free agents.

I think it's sweet! Hope he's somewhere burning his calves.

Well theres one buy low candidate off the table for now. here are some others. We need to get some size and sand with enough skill to play in our top 9. Alvin needs to find a way to move Brock and/or Beau but I won't bore you with a proposal regarding them. GM's around the league find ways to move players except ours. Cole Sillinger has only 17 waiver exempt games remaining. He had quite the sophomore slump. His bread and butter has been as a sniper where he had a 11.02 5v5 shooting %age in his first year it fell off a cliff in his 2nd at just 1.23%. He's bound to rebound Raphael Lavoie 6'4 215 right shot C clapps bombs and has been developing steadily every year he's now 22 and it's either big time or waivers. Lavoie first caught my eye when he went on an absolute tear in the QMJHL playoffs in his draft year.

This is the only image on social media I have been able to find of Brock training this offseason. https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/comments/157jo7h/golf_season_brock_is_a_beauty/

Should have locked brock up 8x8 too.

Love this! We have a few too many of those as well.

I agree 10 short 12 long. Both make sense depending on circumstance. Maybe they go 11 mid.

don't fly too close to the sun.

Demko needs to be around 50 starts if we have any hope it will be having a healthy Demko down the stretch.

He's good depth at that price.

Oh I'm reading your mail. I just think you're hanging the wrong guy. Garland is a part of the solution not the problem. We need to get rid of the softies. People talk about size doesn't matter Tocchet's gonna coach team toughness. etc but then we want to get rid of the guy who exemplifies playing that way.

meh