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    Kole Lind | RW

    in Alumni

    Posted

    While I'm still concerned that his production is partially a result of him being older for his draft year, I can't help but get caught up in the hype for this kid. Can't wait to see what he can do in Utica next season.

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    Kole Lind | RW

    in Alumni

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Brobidus said:

    He is putting up points big time. 
    Does anyone know how many more games he will likely play before the end of the regular season? 
    Also, is he is eligible for the AHL next year?

    Not sure about remaining games but I can tell you that he is AHL eligible next year.

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    Jack Rathbone | #3 | D

    in Prospects / Farm Team

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Odd. said:

    Holy $&!# this guy can skate. Was on vacation so i couldn't see the development camp. 

     

    He's going to play at Harvard next year. He's also got a wicked clapper

    Looks like he's got good vision on the ice as well. There are a couple of quick passing plays under pressure at the point that he handles very well.

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    Brock Boeser | #6 | RW

    in Current Roster

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, NUCKER67 said:

    Anyone else notice this from Saturday's game against the Leafs:

     

    I noticed Matthews and Boeser jawwing during faceoffs, smack talk no doubt. During the shootout, Matthews went first and slid an easy one through Nilsson's 5 hole. He made it look easy, because it was. Nilsson is not great. So when it was Boeser's turn to shoot, he tried the same thing and missed. During the replay, they zoomed in on Matthews and when Boeser missed on his attempt, you could see Matthews shout at Boeser: "F*** you!".

     

    I hate Matthews

    They were chatting during a faceoff earlier in the game as well. I think it's more friendly competition than anything else. They roomed together during an international competition several years ago so they do know each other.

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    Elias Pettersson | #40 | C

    in Current Roster

    Posted

    On 12/13/2017 at 7:52 AM, Bigturk8 said:

    So one of my best friends interviewed Elias Pettersson today (and Rasmus Dahlin yesterday). I think it's supposed to be featured on NHL.com and CDC in the next week or two but I can't confirm. If it's not, I'll make sure to get a copy of the interview and post it on here.

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    And here it is. Video in the link.

    http://www.shl.se/artikel/ql8pajbhy-403dd/the-next-canucks-swedish-superstar

     

    Elias Pettersson is on a historic pace for a junior in the SHL. A prospect that has Canucks fans excited for the next generation of Swedish talent to wear the green and blue.

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    From a young age Elias Pettersson fell in love with hockey and never looked back. Even in his very first hockey game at the young age of five he scored a hat trick, which was captured on home video by his father watching from the stands. That love for the game would soon turn in to obvious talent and that talent would put him on the path to his dream of one day playing in the NHL.

    Projected to go 9 th overall in the 2017 NHL entry draft Elias Pettersson jumped up 4 spots and was selected 5 th overall by the Vancouver Canucks, a pick which surprised many and was met with mixed feelings in Vancouver. However, with his success this year in the SHL, that trepidation has turned to pure excitement among the Vancouver faithful, even Pettersson himself had trouble putting in to words the emotions he felt walking up to that stage.

    – It was amazing, I didn’t know where [I was] going to get picked… I knew [the Canucks] were interested in me and I had a good chance of going there, but I had no idea. But when they called my name it’s a feeling I will never forget.

     

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    Growing up in Sundsvall Sweden, about 4 and a half hours north of Stockholm and hometown of Detroit Red Wings legend Henrik Zetterberg, he played for the Timra organization throughout his youth years where he developed his skill as a gifted forward. Playing for the J18 Timra organization he notched 65 points in just 40 games. Although he struggled in his first season of professional hockey with Timra in HockeyAllsvenskan (the second-tier professional league in Sweden), he found his stride last year, potting 19 goals and 22 assists, the most by a junior in the league, in 43 games. His offensive talent carried into this season and has many around the NHL talking about him as the next young Swedish superstar. Even Pettersson himself is surprised at how well he has done in his first SHL season.

    – I didn’t think I would [score] this many points… but I’ve been working hard to be the player I am today and I will continue to work hard to become the player I want to be… always trying to get better every single day.

    As a future Canucks prospect, he is aware of the Swedish talent the team has seen throughout the years. Names such as Naslund, Ohlund, Edler and Sedin are recognizable to every fan of the green and blue and to know he’s being looked at as the next big Swedish player to come to the Pacific Northwest he’s excited to try and fill those shoes.

    – I look positively on [the opportunity] because many Swedish players have made it and have had a good career in Vancouver, so I’m looking forward to it.

     

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    Pettersson is not the only prospect fans are excited about, many are saying that the Canucks prospect pool is the best they’ve seen in years, perhaps even the best ever. Brock Boeser, Jake Virtanen, Jonathan Dahlén, Thatcher Demko, jus to name a few, have a lot of people excited about the future of the organization, Pettersson included.

    – To see Brock and Jake doing well… and hopefully me and Jonathan can do good in a few years… we’re very excited for the future.

    Besides his obvious talent, speed and soft hands one concern has been raised by many fans, his size. Standing over six feet tall he has the height, but he weighs in at just over 160 pounds. In the SHL his light weight has allowed him to be quick and agile, moving around the bigger players in the league with ease, however the NHL is much more physical, and his light weight could put him at a disadvantage, something Pettersson acknowledges.

    – Play wise, and the technical stuff I feel ready, but not the physical stuff, but I’m working on that everyday… more battles, more physicality, that will be the biggest adjustment [to make].

     

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    Despite his success so far this season he remains humble and realistic about his expectations for the future and although playing in the NHL would be a dream come true, it’s not something he wants to rush in to.

    – I want to be in the NHL, because that has always been my dream, but I want to be ready, not stress it.

    As is the Swedish tradition, his reserved attitude and shy demeanour during the interview gave him an air of humility, but it wasn’t hard to tell that this young man is very excited for the next step in his hockey career. He’ll have plenty of fans eagerly awaiting the first time he slips the Orca over his head and steps out on to the ice as a Vancouver Canuck.

     

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    Elias Pettersson | #40 | C

    in Current Roster

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Zhukini said:

    I personally don't hate the man for anything. He wanted to win more than anyone on the team thats indisputable. Sure he only wanted to go to one team, but it was to do with winning the cup, not chasing the dollars. 

     

    Respect him a hell of a lot more than the old timers who ride off into the sunset chasing every last dollar they can make even though they haven't won yet. 

    I'm not gonna start a Kesler war in the Pettersson thread. Suffice it to say that I disagree.

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    Jonah Gadjovich | LW

    in Alumni

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, CanuckinEdm said:

    Its either really good or bad haha

    There's more cuts today. I can't imagine that they would not cut him only to scratch him and cut him the following day. I've been wrong before though...

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    Jonathan Dahlén | C/LW

    in Alumni

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    2 hours ago, bp79 said:

    Might be only tier 2, but its still against men and he is tearing it up. I agree I think his style will be great on the smaller ice.  reminds me of A young Vanek offensively. very good on D as well One thing I have noticed is how good Vanek is without the puck. is that always been his game?  To the point, he should be brought over here 4 sure. Mono killed his 1st chance. Now he would go to Utica in peak hockey condition. Be cool to see Gaudette. Sounds like that's the plan from what it says on his thread. Wonder if OJ could join us once his season ended? Not like he has A contraCT CHEERS MERRY CHRISTMAS

    Utica could use a boost right about now. Our injuries are stripping them bare.

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    Elias Pettersson | #40 | C

    in Current Roster

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    So one of my best friends interviewed Elias Pettersson today (and Rasmus Dahlin yesterday). I think it's supposed to be featured on NHL.com and CDC in the next week or two but I can't confirm. If it's not, I'll make sure to get a copy of the interview and post it on here.

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    Brock Boeser | #6 | RW

    in Current Roster

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    37 minutes ago, 250Integra said:

    I remember being baffled at the Bruins picks. I thought for sure Barzal or Connor would be gone.. but their GM had other ideas. 

     

    The Vancouver Canucks facebook account asked everyone what our predictions were, and I predicted that we would either draft Boeser or Juulsen ;) Don't think anybody else in the comments wrote Boeser lol.

    I didn't even know who he was at the time. I was so zoned in on defensman that I was just baffled that we took a winger.

    My buddy and I were on a skype call watching the draft together and we were both so confused when JB made the pick. I spent the next 15 minutes going through scouting reports and highlight reels. I remember at the end of my research binge, I said to my buddy that it looked like a really good pick, but before that, he wasn't even on my radar.

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    Jake Virtanen | #18 | RW

    in Alumni

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    From Friedmans 31 thoughts.

    5. Whatever it may look like with his ice-time, I left Vancouver last week believing the Canucks have a long-term plan for Jake Virtanen. They see a big, strong, fast guy who can shoot it. Whatever happened before, they don’t want to give up. I do think, however, they will try to find another spot for Alexander Burmistrov.

    http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/31-thoughts-erik-karlsson-trade-rumours-ottawa-senators/

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    Elias Pettersson | #40 | C

    in Current Roster

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    4 minutes ago, Qwags said:

    So Pettersson can see anyone, anywhere on the ice. But can he see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

    Maybe. Maybe not. But I bet he knows how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.

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    Jacob Markstrom | #25 | G

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    Posted · Edited by Bigturk8
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    Acknowledging and analyzing the NHL’s top five goalies this season
     

    After breaking down the top forward lines and defence pairings so far this season, the natural next step is to look at which goaltenders have been the biggest difference makers for their teams.

    Unfortunately with goalies there just isn’t the same variety of statistics to evaluate their play that exist for skaters, so it’s a lot tougher to come to a conclusion about total value, especially in small sample sizes.

    In the end I decided that sticking to 5-on-5 play made sense once again, because save percentage on special teams is highly unreliable in small samples. In order to qualify, goaltenders had to start at least 10 games this season and I wanted to look at not just overall performance, but signs that the performance is sustainable, and how much the goaltenders themselves are contributing to the shot quality they face.

    With that in mind, here’s what I came up with as the top goaltenders through one quarter of the NHL season.

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    Be aware that in order to increase the contrast in these big numbers I started the y-axis (vertical) at 30 per cent.

    Over the past several years of NHL hockey, we know that future overall save percentage is normally best predicted by how well goalies are stopping pucks in the high danger area, or inner slot. So far this season, Mike Smith is leading everyone there by a wide margin, turning away 90.7 per cent of the high danger chances he faces, which is more than 13 percentage points better than league average.

    An interesting note on Smith’s high danger save percentage being the highest of this group: his outer slot save percentage is the lowest for him personally and below league average. That’s an odd outlier. Smith gives up rebounds on 62 per cent of the shots he faces, but those rebounds are recovered by his teammates or himself 87.5 per cent of the time.

    Smith has a relatively high percentage of his rebounds that wind up in the inner slot area, but 98.6 per cent of those rebounds are either recovered by his teammates or smothered by Smith before opponents get a chance to get on the puck, so it hasn’t burned him yet.
     

    Sergei Bobrovsky, last season’s Vezina winner, leads the NHL in even strength save percentage again, and is third in high danger save percentage while posting stronger save rates in the high slot than Smith. Bobrovsky has been a bit of a mess with rebounds though.

    A whopping 71 per cent of the shots Bobrovsky faces result in rebounds, and 39 per cent of those end up in the inner slot. The Blue Jackets also recover fewer of Bob’s rebounds than league average teams do, making things tougher on him as he faces more second chances than other goalies.

    That hasn’t burned him yet, but the question for Bobrovsky is whether you credit him for the extra saves or punish him for being the creator of his own increased difficulty? In a small sample size, it’s tough to say which is more important. If by the end of the season Bobrovsky still leads the NHL in even strength save percentage, you just have to tip your hat to him.

    Braden Holtby puts up strong numbers across the board, and he doesn’t give up many rebounds either, with only 59 per cent of the shots he faces ending up out of his immediate control. The Capitals also recover among the highest percentage of rebounds in the NHL at 90.7 per cent – and they recover 97.5 per cent of Holtby’s rebounds into the high danger area.

    Holtby has the easiest workload of this elite group, but you have to give him credit for helping to ease that by keeping second chances to a minimum.

    Corey Crawford remains one of the most consistent even strength goaltenders in the NHL, posting strong save percentages and allowing the lowest percentage of rebounds to the inner slot of anyone.

    The Blackhawks don’t recover Crawford’s rebounds at as high a rate as other teams, but Crawford’s own work in the high danger area leads to 97.8 per cent of those high danger rebounds being recovered.

    Arguably the most surprising goaltender on this list is Jacob Markstrom, who used to be the ‘Next Great Goalie’ prospect for years, only to flounder in the NHL until this season when he’s been brilliant at even strength for an equally surprising Vancouver Canucks team.

    Markstrom boasts the second-best high danger save percentage in the NHL, strong numbers in the high slot, and has the lowest percentage of shots faced that turn into rebounds at just 57 per cent.

    Of those rebounds, Markstrom is tied with Crawford for the lowest percentage of them ending up in the high danger area at just 31.7 per cent. Markstrom’s teammates have done a great job recovering the very few rebounds he actually allows, too.

    I think you could make a legitimately strong argument for any of Smith, Bobrovsky, and Markstrom as the top-three goalies this season. Whether those will be the same names up for the Vezina at the end of the year, though, is anyone’s guess.



    http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/acknowledging-analyzing-nhls-top-five-goalies-season/

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    Elias Pettersson | #40 | C

    in Current Roster

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Mr53 said:

    Here are the top-10 scorers in the SHL under 20 years old

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    As you can see, it's pretty close

    On a side note, Dahlin tied for second, as a Dman, in his draft year... It's been said a thousand times, but damn that kid is special.

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