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  1. His final one with us. http://www.extraskater.com/team/vancouver-canucks/2011
  2. There isn't a rule from prohibiting a 4th liner to get more minutes though. EDIT: Deleted this when posting the comment above: Worked pretty well for Cody Hodgson. He averaged 12.5 minutes while playing (much publicized) sheltered minutes.
  3. I still don't see how simply starting on the 4th line is as huge of an issue as you believe. Is it far fetched an idea to have him start on the 4th line, adjust to the overall pace, then move up to the 3rd once he's learned to keep up? The thing is, when I look at a potential 4th line of Matthias/Richardson-Horvat-Dorsett I can see that line getting minutes that are reasonable for a rookie in the NHL.
  4. Why are you clinging on to the whole "top 10 pick" thing so much? That's assuming all top 10 picks require the same development path, which in turn assumes they are all the same players. Most people had Bo going in the early 10's/mid-teens in mock drafts anyways.
  5. Even if he heals completely by training camp, it's probably in his best developmental interest to return to the WHL as well.
  6. Why are you assuming he would play an entire season on the 4th line? If Bo Horvat is ready to play in the NHL, I'd imagine he would be able to at least move up to the 3rd line at some point. If he can't do that then he's not NHL ready anyways.
  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bjO_UKIqE Dangle, dangle.
  8. I feel like using Matthias on the 2nd over Kassian is not maximizing your assets to their fullest capabilities. Matthias hasn't shown much to land himself a role in the top-6 while Kassian has. I'd move Matthias down to centre the 3rd, move Vey to the 3L-RW (where the 2 can alternate faceoffs), move Burrows to LW, and move Kassian up.
  9. http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=724605
  10. Here's hoping Virtanen will at least have a better rookie season than Owen Nolan (53GP | 3G | 10A | 13PTS). (EDIT: I should probably mention he had a spectacular sophomore season though.)
  11. You going to change your sig to "Jake Taken!"?
  12. I don't want to discredit what Ehlers accomplished... but he also had an offensive juggernaut in Jonathan Drouin on his team. I don't know if they were linemates but I'd assume they were. EDIT: As for the bolded part, we will just have to wait and see.
  13. Virtanen has a far superior shot and plays, in Benning's words, a "meaner" game. They both can skate, hit, and drive the net so they're quite similar in that respect. But I don't think Virtanen is necessarily some carbon copy of Booth. At full potential (which is asking a lot...), Virtanen provides much more than Booth has.
  14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOyJzw_HzhU 0:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWoadB0ZrEg Neat footage from Virtanen's WHL Bantam Draft and some "classic" Joey Kenward for his Kenward-Superfans.
  15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7HGsYmDiJ0 0:22-0:28
  16. Found Nikita's Instagram and found an interesting (sort of) picture from 2 years ago. Here's him taking a selfie with some guy wearing a Canucks hat. http://instagram.com/p/QU28AMj4pb/
  17. I read somewhere that he won't be participating in physical activities because of his shoulder.
  18. Demko mentioned in his TEAM1040 interview that he had 8-hour days at summer school (for a month and a half) to get to Boston College early. Shows that he's willing to put in the work. Linden (in his most recent 1040 interview) also said that he was a terrific interview at the combine.
  19. TSN had ranked him No.7 going into the draft.
  20. Yeah, even if Horvat ends up a solid 3rd line centre instead of a 2d-liner, I see Benning wanting to keep him. Horvat is exactly the type of character player Benning has been saying he wants.
  21. You can never have enough good centres. I don't see how this implicates a Horvat move at this point.
  22. Benning hoping we land the next Chara. :- )
  23. A little interesting that a number of LA fans replied to Pierre LeBrun's tweet/report saying this was Lombardi giving Vey a chance to play in the NHL sooner rather than later.
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