ice orca Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 1040 just said Shink got sent back down and Grenier called up, haven;t seen it on the boards yet tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Unfortunate but not surprising given his deer in headlights play the other night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaudette Celly Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 30 minutes ago, J.R. said: Unfortunate but not surprising given his deer in headlights play the other night. I thought he did fine for a first game. Was more noticeable than Baertschi was in his first games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 1 minute ago, Hutton Wink said: I thought he did fine for a first game. Was more noticeable than Baertschi was in his first games. He didn't crap the bed but he also didn't play his game. He'll get another chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 14 hours ago, tyhee said: Actually, he can be sent to jr, as Draisaitl was after 37 games last season. The only effect of being over 9 games is that he burns a year off his entry level contract instead of it sliding for the year. I believe if he is sent to jr this season he can't come back until his jr team is done, but I don't know what the source of that rule, if it exists, is. I'm not arguing Virtanen should be sent down, merely noting it isn't correct to say he can't be. That's what he said, he was referring to him not being able to be sent to the AHL. If he is sent to junior (which is the CHL) then he can't be called up until his junior team's season is completed (apart from an emergency recall). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Shinkaruk with a late assist on Gaunce's second goal but it's not enough. Comets lose 3-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatedkid666 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Hunter Shinkaruk regains a share of @theAHL league-lead in goals with his 11th : Subban, Grenier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derp... Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 It was a snipe too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilya Mikheyev Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 11 goals, 16 points in 15 games. Gonna rock his 16 goals from last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 12 hours ago, Teemu Selänne said: 11 goals, 16 points in 15 games. Gonna rock his 16 goals from last year. Bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 A good lesson in patience. He's been dumped into endless proposals on these boards as a no value throw in over the past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice orca Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Love me some Shink, kid has the big heart to do anything to make it to the show. If he goes ppg and has a great off season program he can and will make the Canucks next year. Hope to see him called up for a few more games this year as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robongo Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Good article on Hunter from Vancitybuz , Some new quotes in there . Hunter Shinkaruk has only played one game for the Canucks this season, but he has fans anticipating his return like nerds awaiting the Force Awakens. The reason: he’s the Utica Comets’ leading scorer with 19 points (11g, 8a) through 19 games this year. Considering Vancouver’s critical need for anyone who will consistently score besides the Sedins, they can’t afford to hold off on him much longer. After managing 16 goals in his rookie season, Shinkaruk is a different player this year. With two hat tricks so far, he’s become a legitimate AHL sniper. One huge reason for that success is the full summer’s training he put in alongside Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon. But the 31 points he put up last season are nothing to scoff at. Consider he was coming off hip labrum surgery the year before. That operation took about six hours and Shinkaruk says he didn’t walk for about a month and a half afterwards. “For me it was a bit frustrating. I kind of thought at times people forgot what I had to go through,” Shinkaruk said over the phone Monday. There were those who said he wasn’t playing a physical enough game, or he wasn’t as NHL ready as Sven Baertschi who came to Utica after being acquired in a mid-season trade and took on a major role with the team down the stretch. “There were things that were said that kind of put a fire in my belly that when I came into the summer,” said Shinkaruk. “I really wanted to silence all the people who thought that maybe I wasn’t able to do the things I did in Junior at a pro level.” A summer of dedication Because of that fire, Shinkaruk decided to put in a full off-season with his trainer Andy O’Brien, who also trains Crosby in Halifax during the summers. Working out alongside Crosby and MacKinnon turned out to be an eye-opening experience. “To be able to see, not just on the ice, but off the ice, how (Crosby) handles himself, how he eats, how he does the things away from the rink no one really thinks about – when I saw him and was around him, those are the things that really separated him from other players I’ve skated with,” said Shinkaruk. “Just the way he prepares.” “You realize they’re the best in the world but they’re never comfortable and feel good with where they’re at. They’re always working to be better. It was good for me to see that for sure.” Under O’Brien’s watch with Crosby, MacKinnon, and others, Shinkaruk trained six days a week for two full months. The experience has certainly changed some ways he approaches the game. “Just little things that I see that I put into my daily routine – those are things that are for me to know that have been helping me out this year,” he said. With Utica choosing to move on from veterans Cal O’Reilly, Brandon Defazio, Cory Conacher and Dustin Jeffrey in the past half year, the door opened up for Shinkaruk to take on a larger role with the team. “I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to be one of the best players, if not the best player on the ice every night, and it’s been working out,” he said. “Definitely the things I did in the off-season have helped me.” Getting ready for the next call Shinkaruk played his first NHL game against Montreal in the middle of November. You could see his confidence growing as the game wore on. “It was probably about the second period – I was sitting on the bench and I felt pretty good, and I told myself it’s just hockey. It’s the same as it was in Peewee and in the WHL and the AHL. I’ve just got to play my game and I feel like things will work out.” While he said playing a game in the NHL was a dream come true and a great experience, he quickly adds that he’s not at all satisfied. “At the end of the day it’s not my dream or my goal to just play one game in the NHL,” he explained. “I want to be one of the top players in that league one day.” Canucks’ GM Benning believes Shinkaruk is the kind of player who loves to be around the net and score goals, and says he expected this success from Shinkaruk. “At the start of the year we had him pencilled in for 25-30 goals and to be a leader of that team down there,” Benning said on the radio last week. “He’s working on the other parts of his game he knows he needs to improve to stay in the NHL full-time, so he’s on the right track.” Shinkaruk agrees: “Getting a little taste of it was definitely nice, and now it’s time for me to keep working and getting better and making sure that I’m going to stay there.” What he’s done so far in the AHL should help make Benning’s decision to send Jake Virtanen to the World Juniors easier. Shinkaruk’s ready to return to prove he should stick around. http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/12/shinkaruk-learned-crosby-summer-ready-for-nhl/ heard he was injured last game he hurt his wrist but also was holding what looked like his hip. Hopefully its not too serious because the last thing he needs is an injury to derail his breakout season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robongo Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Phew, doesn't sound serious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 That's good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucypass Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Anyone know what happened to Shinkaruk? He wasn't in the last game against Rochester... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 3 minutes ago, suitup said: Anyone know what happened to Shinkaruk? He wasn't in the last game against Rochester... Literally 2 posts up.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucypass Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 2 minutes ago, J.R. said: Literally 2 posts up.... LOL. I have no clue why I didn't see that. Apologies! Gaunce is back, but anyone know when Shink is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Torts Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Any updates on Hunter ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyg43 Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 curious as to if anyone knows what Coach Green has said about the sniper? I have heard JB comments [I don't think JB has any affection for him playing on big club just trade bait for next draft?] why has he not been given a really good shot at the call up an given a real chance? [ I am not talking injuries here ok] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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