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[Report] Canucks assign 3 to Utica. (Including Rodin on Conditioning)

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Vancouver, B.C. - Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning announced today that the club has assigned Anton Rodin on a conditioning loan and reassigned Joseph Labate and Andrey Pedan to the Utica Comets of the AHL.

Rodin, 26, played 33 games for Brynas of the Swedish Hockey League in 2015.16 scoring 16 goals, 21 assists (16.-21-37) and 18 penalty minutes. The Stockholm, Sweden native received the Gold Helmet award as MVP of the Swedish Hockey League despite suffering a season ending leg injury. Rodin has played 223 career games in the Swedish League recording 143 points (55-88-143) and 112 penalty minutes.
 
Labate, 23, played three games with the Canucks and recorded seven penalty minutes. In 12 games with the Comets this season he has scored six points (2-4-6) and logged 34 penalty minutes. Labate played his first professional season in 2015.16 appearing in 66 games, collecting 20 points (10-10-20) and 79 penalty minutes.
 
Pedan, 23, has appeared in 18 games with Utica this season scoring two goals and one assist (2-1-3) with 30 penalty minutes. The defenceman made his NHL debut with Vancouver in 2015.16 playing 13 games and recording 18 penalty minutes. He also played 45 games with Utica last season setting career highs (7-14-21) along with 87 penalty minutes.

 

https://www.nhl.com/canucks/news/canucks-assign-three-to-comets/c-284609920

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Ossi Vaananen said:

I'm curious as to what this means for Virtanen. Either they keep him down there, and Rodin bumps him as the next call up; or having sent down both our extra D and F, does Virtanen get the call-up?

 

My guess is with Hansen back and Larsen soon, they felt like they could put those guys down. I doubt this means anything for Virtanen right now

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Good to hear that Rodin is close, and would rather have Pedan playing in Utica than sitting in our press box.  Biega is our man to lose to expansion draft, so I'd rather play him  and lose him than expose someone else.  Now lets see how the year turns out to see which forward we're losing/

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26 minutes ago, Ossi Vaananen said:

I'm curious as to what this means for Virtanen. Either they keep him down there, and Rodin bumps him as the next call up; or having sent down both our extra D and F, does Virtanen get the call-up?

 

 

I believe Rodin isn't waiver exempt, so he's only down there temporarily.  Virtanen will most likely spent the rest of the year down in the AHL, barring a horrendous string of injuries and/or massive trading of vets. 

 

 

I hope that this will light a little fire under Baertschi.  Not saying he's playing poorly, but we all know he can do a lot more.  Maybe a little internal competition will help out the team as a whole. 

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1 minute ago, DeNiro said:

Virtanen and Rodin on the powerplay should be fun. Guys that actually shoot the puck tend to, you know, score.

JB harps on an NHL (real good) shot for some players as the reason he wanted them.  Could you imagine the damage Henrik could have done if he had an NHL shot?  

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