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  1. Great picks come from the lower rounds. Every year, there are half a dozen or so players who get drafted lower than 2nd round and end up having long NHL careers. Its those picks that GMs either fluke out on or develop a reputation over. A GM that has already provided a few roster players from < 2nd round and a few roster players of undrafted players, is great at drafting.
  2. I know he's out indefinitely due to surgery (appendix), but does anyone know how good is Gabriel Villardi ? He is one of the younger ones eligible for draft next year (IIRC he just turned 17 in August) and his numbers look good for a potential 1C.
  3. Does anyone know how does Gabe Villardi looks ?
  4. Is Tryamin actually better at the right side than left, or is he playing right because he can and thats where the hole is at the moment ?
  5. Simple as in Mats Sundin simple ( nothing flashy, but all the fundamentals are solid) or simple like Brian Boyle simple, where he is just 'ok/just below average' at everything ?
  6. What do people think of Rasmussen ? He is on the younger side of the draft ( turns 18 on March next year) but is humongous : 6 foot 5 and already 200 lbs+ . He also has 17G, 26 points in 21 Games and is a center-man. Is he a potential 1C ?
  7. I am with Tryamkin on this one. As an immigrant many years ago, if i came over to Canada with a contract with a Canadian employer, i am not going to budge from the letter of the agreement in the very first year. Yes, it is Tryamkin's choice to go to the AHL at this moment, but conditioning stint or not, there is no guarantee the Canucks will bring him back up. He could just rot in AHL for the next year for all we know.There is no reason for Tryamkin to 'trust the management on this one' and the onus is on the management to build trust with him before they ask him to do something against his contract and be protected by their 'word' on the deal. Especially coming from a place like Russia, where employers routinely flaunt the contract agreement & exert pressure on their employee, I can totally understand where Tryamkin is coming from. Especially since he is 1 injury away from cracking the lineup (he is the 4th guy on our depth chart in Left Handed defence pairing). If Tryamkin is smart, he'd realize that atleast 50% of the NHL clubs hand over 80 games to defenders outside their top-six, due to injury & form failing through the course of a season and sit put for his chance. I know thats exactly what i'd do.
  8. Its possible. Though isn't Lady Lyanna Mormont also a female head of the house ? Do remember that the North has always been different- they are the 'first men' and though they adopted the customs and ways of the Andals, perhaps female leadership is something they've always had, maybe as a 'last resort' as opposed to 'losing the name altogether, like the House Reyne of Castermere'. The Sansa-Jon Snow angle is interesting but i got a feeling he is destined for Dany. Jon, particularly the more circumspect Jon since resurrection, is a perfect compliment for Dany and her mercurial personality. The 'Sansa kills everything coz she is going to be ruthless' angle has another problem: right now, she thinks that she is the only Stark alive. Sure, Jon is her brother and she loves him and all that, but he is not a Stark- not yet. So perhaps her 'i am the last one' ruthlessless, is going to melt away once (if) she realizes that Arya and Bran are alive. Technically, Winterfell belongs to Bran. Ofcourse, it is up to the show and Martin, but he is basing his legal framework from medieval England in most case ( the interactions of bigger and lesser great houses, inheritances, etc) and IIRC, in the old English law, once Robb died, the title fell to Bran by default, as Jon is not legally legitimate and title cannot be lost due to post-legitimizing of an older illegitimate child after the fact. PS: Though it would also be concievable that a crippled man with the power to time-travel via weirwood trees, would prefer doing that, instead of day to day management of illiterate buffoons and thugs that is their society, who would need a lot of 'neck snipping' to be convinced that this comely little cripple lad means business. Not Bran's style either. Then there is also Arya. She is far more Dany-esque and a strong woman from the get-go, who is far more decisive, better at it (her move to go to Braavos on the spot is a stroke of genius that Sansa would've shat herself over for) and she not only can straight up KO sansa in a second, she most probably would be a better ruler. Sure, Sansa has 'intrigue ability' that Arya does not, but once she ghosts 2-3 lords in a whorehouse or their beds, she is going to be too badass to mess with by reputation, thus largely nullifying threat from other lords and schemers.
  9. not really. For eg, if you are into cycling or jogging, you go for a 10 km jog/40 km bike ride between 9am and 1pm, come home, eat, rest, then go to the gym for your 'arms day' around 4pm and work out for 1 hour, come home, eat, rest and go for a 2 hour swim from 9pm to 11, thats your 7 hours/day and sustainable if you already are fit.
  10. This is pretty much it. Demko will likely not get a backup position in the NHL till the end of 2017-18 season as a best-case scenario. He most likely will be called up once or twice next season, 5-10 times in 2018-19 and maybe become a backup to Marky (or whoever) around 2019-20. If he ends up behind Marky, he may spend the next year or two dislodging Markstrom. That would mean if he progresses well, he will challenge for starter job around 2021-22. Ie, it would still be a 4-5 year process.
  11. Err, the Canucks probably have a clear plan for development and we are one of the more reputable teams for 'goalie team'' in the league but the path to starter in Vancouver is not a clear one. Jacob Markstrom: Not 'tearing it up' in his first major season but is posting credible numbers in front of a terrible defense : we are seventh worst in a 30-team league for goals against. With Miller aging and credibly, having almost a season or two left (and likely, dealt at the next trade deadline unless he has a late career HoF season) and Markstrom is only 26. He is poised to take the starter role in Vancouver and it is his role to lose: Demko is atleast 3 seasons away from challenging for the starter job, even with his 'scorching start' to pro or near-pro hockey. That is 3 seasons Markstrom has, to solidify his claim to the job and if he does do a great job/ride a potential 'put-together-to-win-cup' team to a deep playoff run, he can quite easily, become our next franchise goalie. The likelyhood of it happening is not good but its a lot closer than one might think: Markstrom has displayed technical solidity, with a fair degree of athleticism and reading the play, to post, generally speaking, good numbers for the defense ahead of him ( He has the third best save % amongst all goalies in worst 10 teams for Goals-Against, ahead of the highly regarded Bobrovsky and just behind highly regarded Talbot and Anderson). An ideal scenario for Demo is to play under an aging but not very old vet of a goalie and lock up the backup in a year from now, graduating to full-goalie, as far as 'path to NHL' goes. But long story short, all this hyperventilating is not worth the trouble. Canucks, as with other 29 teams in the NHL know the risk of drafting a college-bound player and diligent fan-bases should accept it for what it is. Demko is a 20 year old guy, who is from San Deigo, who plays in Boston. Boston is one of the most attractive cities to be a hockey player, it checks most of the boxes for players: avid fan following, history of culture, history of the club, decent perennial playoff team, original six, etc etc. On the other hand SJ is a better team than Vancouver, will most likely be so in a year's time, with a big gaping hole in the goal and he is the home-boy. How can you hate a guy for choosing to finish school, go back home and become a super-star with his home team ? THAT is what every hockey player dreams of, quite literally in the NHL. But on the other hand,we have a good shot at signing him. We are the odds-on heavy favorite to sign a highly touted University prospect ( most teams end up with their top-end university prospects anyways), we are an emergent team transitioning into a promising future, with a narrow, possible window of '40-year old Sedin-ery as our 3rd line to win a cup'. A mega-market, where one can truly be a super-star (if he has a thick enough skin to endure Vancouver's goalie psychosis- we are one of the worst teams to play for, from the fanbase perspective, for a goalie). So just sit pat and find out. We played the lottery with him, with odds on favorite to win. If we lose, we can't begrudge the kid that. We'd all have pretty good reasons to do what he'd do, regardless of where he signs.
  12. Horvat got utilized more than Virtanen- he averaged more than two minutes per game than Virtanen in his rookie season. Plus, Horvat to be fair, was projected to make an easier transition to the NHL, since he was seen as a player with good allround skills and hockey IQ. This has mostly borne out, where Horvat just needs to get a bit stronger and more experienced to be a 2C typer performer. Virtanen on the other hand, has a lot of raw power and decent shot, with a lower level of game-sense than Horvat had. This is obvious, from seeing Jake play. What he needs, is exposure in the type of scenarios that he is not getting in the NHL: ability to play alongside top end playmakers and ability to play important minutes- such as a power play with the clock winding down, etc. These are the abilities he is not able to hone here and in my humble opinion, he needs to do this, before we end up typecasting him as a speedy, muscular power forward with decent hands but not playing an offensive game.
  13. I disagree, because we are projecting JV to be a potential 1st/2nd line right-winger. Had he been projected as a 3rd/4th line right-winger, it'd be perfectly fine letting him being in the NHL and learning on the fly. But the point is, his offensive game is NOT going to develop here, because he simply won't get the opportunity to hone those skills. All skills are 'use it or lose it' kind of skills. You cannot expect a player who gets zero PP time for 3-4 years to suddenly turn into a PP monster, or someone who never plays with finesse oriented centers (which is what all first line centers are- finesse oriented. Big or small, they all got finesse and skills) to suddenly play like he is anticipating a killer feed. If JV plays on in the NHL, he will end up being a third/fourth liner. Because his physical game is effective, coaches will focus more and more on his defensive zone positioning, his ability to hit will be harnessed into a sandpaper and abrasion role, which will mean he will eventually end up with a ceiling similar to Raffi Torres and not Milan Lucic. For JV to develop into a potential Milan Lucic, he needs to play top line minutes, top PP unit, etc. The only place he can play that, is in the juniors right now and IMO he needs more time developing as a 1st/2nd line offensively gifted power forward rather than a bone crunching power forward with limited offensive upside, which is what he is likely to become in the NHL without proper offensive minutes(which he won't get with the canucks).
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