The Skate Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 1 hour ago, Toews said: Agreed, have to stress that points aren't everything. Glass has the potential to be a two way #1C with size, that's probably one of the most valuable pieces out there. Its interesting though to compare what Lind is doing in comparison to a top 10 pick against the same competition. Kole Lind 8G 14A 22P and in on 47.8% (22/46) of team goals in 12GP. Cody Glass 6G 13A 19P and in on 33.3% (19/57) of team goals in 11GP. Lind has more goals, a higher PPG and is on higher % of team goals. A more productive player than Glass despite being on a lower scoring team. well said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Bae Bo Boeser Dahlen Pettrsson Lind Virtanen Granlund Goldy Gadjovich Gaunce Gaudette Future isn't looking too bad just have to dump some vets and make a blockbuster for a top liner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noble 6 Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I'm very happy with Lind's production and season so far, but Glass is the better player. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cripplereh Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 when they both get to the NHL we will see won't we! I think Lind is as good maybe better then Glass will be awesome to see them both play and then see whom is better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48MPHSlapShot Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 23 minutes ago, Horvat is a Boss said: I'm very happy with Lind's production and season so far, but Glass is the better player. And Pettersson is better than both 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleShield Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I just remember that video of Benning wondering why no one was picking Kole Lind. I wonder how high he was on our list? 12-15 range? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gaudette Celly Posted October 22, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) 19 hours ago, AV's Coin said: 3 assists and one goal now. Glass has 1 goal. Not sure why I want to compare them but I'm gonna! "Why is someone taking Cody Glass?" Edited October 22, 2017 by Hutton Wink 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, Hutton Wink said: "Why is someone taking Glass?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PunjabiCanucks Posted October 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) Hayley Wickenheiser talks up skills of prospect Kole Lind If Kole Lind ever requires public relations help, he should hire Hayley Wickenheiser. Less than five minutes after a call was put into her agent asking if Wickenheiser would talk about fellow Shaunavon, Sask., product Lind, Canada’s greatest ever women’s hockey player was on the phone, raving about the 19-year-old Vancouver Canucks right wing prospect. Lind is making things miserable on opposing WHL goalies as a member of the Kelowna Rockets, with 22 points, including eight goals, in 12 games. Shaunavon is a farming community of about 1,800 in southwest Saskatchewan. Everybody knows everybody. It’s one of those places. Hockey people in particular know hockey people, and Lind’s dad Ashley, 41, recalls coming through the minor hockey ranks alongside Wickenheiser, 39, when they were both growing up in the area. His first vivid recollection of playing against her was when he was eight years old. Ashley and wife Marcia run a farm in nearby Admiral, Sask., and also head up one of the more prolific hockey families in the region currently. Kole’s sisters Tenelle, 16, and Taylor, 15, are key members of the Swift Current Wildcats, a squad in the Saskatchewan female triple-A midget league. Youngest sibling Kalan, 12, is an underage bantam with the Swift Current Broncos and he had an impressive 12 points in his first seven games. Kole, of course, is the one drawing the most attention now. “I remember his dad as a player and it’s fair to say that Kole is more skilled,” Wickenheiser quipped. “Kole comes from a great family. He’s a grounded kid. In a lot of ways, I think he’s your typical Saskatchewan farm boy from a small town. “He’s got a nose for the net and seems to have the ability to score timely goals and not everybody can do that. He’s a good size, and I think he’s not going to be afraid to play in the physical areas at the next level. I also think he’s going to be a good team guy. He comes from a community environment and he remembers where he’s from. “He has that dynamic element as a player, but I also think he’s going to be a guy who will show up night in, night out.” Wickenheiser and Lind aren’t in frequent contact. For instance, they each joked about being surprised when they were both entrants in a summer camp two years ago in Florida run by noted skills coach Darryl Belfry. Kole Lind of the Kelowna Rockets skates with the puck against the Medicine Hat Tigers at Prospera Place in Kelowna. Marissa Baecker / PNG Wickenheiser does keep up on Lind’s exploits, though, following how the 6-foot-1, 185 pounder did in midget with the Saskatoon Contacts and now junior with the Rockets, along with all that went in to the Canucks using a second-round pick, 33rd overall, in last summer’s NHL Draft to snag his rights. When she started up her apparel line, she sent him a care package. Lind wears a black Wickenheiser signature ball cap in the dressing room before every practice and game with the Rockets. “When he was young, I remember thinking, ‘This kid is going to be a player of some sort,’” explained Wickenheiser, who announced her retirement from international hockey last January. “You could just tell. The way he skated, the way he moved the puck, the way his smarts matched his physical ability. “I’m really happy for him. And I think Vancouver Canucks fans will be happy with him for a long, long time.” Lind is a Wickenheiser fan, too. You probably figured that was coming. He says that “she’s the greatest women’s hockey player the game has ever had, and just to know her and have her support pushes me to go further.” Ask him about who he modelled his game after growing up, though, and he goes with another Prairie product, picking Jordan Eberle. It’s logical. Now with the New York Islanders, Eberle, 27, is a right shot right winger known for his offence. Lind would have been about 10 years old when Eberle first burst on the national scene, with his timely tallies at world juniors. Eberle was playing in the WHL for the Regina Pats then. Regina is about three and a half hours from Shaunavon. Kole Lind performs a Long Jump during the NHL Combine at HarborCenter on June 3, 2017 in Buffalo, New York. Bill Wippert / PNG One of the knocks on Eberle over the years has been his commitment to defence. That’s one of the questions about Lind moving forward. Expectations of his play in own zone have been increased by Rockets coach Jason Smith this season, according to both Lind and Smith. For instance, a year ago Lind would come out for the final few seconds of a penalty kill. This time around, Smith has opted to use him on one of his two main forward duos when down a man. “It’s helping me understand the game even more,” said Lind. “I think Jason has really laid it on me and I want to be a guy that he can rely on in all situations.” Smith, 43, who’s in his second year at the helm of the Rockets, maintains that he’s seeing growth in Lind. “I think after going to his first rookie tournament and playing against men at training camp he knows what it takes,” said Smith, who manned the blue line in the NHL for 1,008 regular season games and spent two years as an assistant coach with the Ottawa Senators before coming to the Rockets. “That first training camp is always a real eye opener. “With all young players, the offensive zone is the fun zone. It’s easy to play there if you’re skilled and getting results. But you have to be accountable in your own zone. It’s not about being an elite defender. It’s about being responsible, about not cheating, about your coach being able to put you on the ice late in the period for a faceoff in your own zone. “Kole is trending in the right way. He’s maturing. He’s taking advice. He can deal with criticism.” Skyler McKenzie of the Portland Winterhawks stickchecks Kole Lind of the Kelowna Rockets during third period at Prospera Place in Kelowna. Marissa Baecker / Getty Images Lind was a fourth-round pick of the Rockets in 2013 WHL bantam draft after he produced 22 goals and 46 points in 20 regular season games with his Swift Current Raiders bantam side in 2012-13. He played the following season in midget with the Saskatoon Contacts, and put up 21 goals and 37 points in 44 regular season games. The next year, when he was 16 years old and could have been a full-time regular with the Rockets, they sent him back to the Contacts and he flourished, tallying 45 times and recording 79 points in 44 regular season games. His coach there was Marc Chartier. He’s the father of former Rockets sniper and current San Jose Sharks farmhand Rourke Chartier and his hockey resume includes being a teammate of former Canucks coach Willie Desjardins under coach Dave King with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies when they won the CIAU national title in 1982-83. “He knew where the net was from 200 feet away,” Chartier said of Lind. “Great work ethic, great kid to coach. He never took days off. He was a great kid to coach.” Last week, Lind was named to Team WHL for the Canada-Russia Series, which Hockey Canada lists as one of its precursors to picking the world junior team. They’ll play Nov. 6 in Moose Jaw and then Nov. 7 in Swift Current. Lind scored 30 goals and had 87 points in 70 regular season games last season with Kelowna. http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/canucks-hayley-wickenheiser-talks-up-skills-of-prospect-kole-lind ---- Dudes on pace for 40+ G, 110+ pts season Edited October 23, 2017 by PunjabiCanucks 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73 Percent Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Who names their son Ashley... 11 minutes ago, PunjabiCanucks said: Hayley Wickenheiser talks up skills of prospect Kole Lind If Kole Lind ever requires public relations help, he should hire Hayley Wickenheiser. Less than five minutes after a call was put into her agent asking if Wickenheiser would talk about fellow Shaunavon, Sask., product Lind, Canada’s greatest ever women’s hockey player was on the phone, raving about the 19-year-old Vancouver Canucks right wing prospect. Lind is making things miserable on opposing WHL goalies as a member of the Kelowna Rockets, with 22 points, including eight goals, in 12 games. Shaunavon is a farming community of about 1,800 in southwest Saskatchewan. Everybody knows everybody. It’s one of those places. Hockey people in particular know hockey people, and Lind’s dad Ashley, 41, recalls coming through the minor hockey ranks alongside Wickenheiser, 39, when they were both growing up in the area. His first vivid recollection of playing against her was when he was eight years old. Ashley and wife Marcia run a farm in nearby Admiral, Sask., and also head up one of the more prolific hockey families in the region currently. Kole’s sisters Tenelle, 16, and Taylor, 15, are key members of the Swift Current Wildcats, a squad in the Saskatchewan female triple-A midget league. Youngest sibling Kalan, 12, is an underage bantam with the Swift Current Broncos and he had an impressive 12 points in his first seven games. Kole, of course, is the one drawing the most attention now. “I remember his dad as a player and it’s fair to say that Kole is more skilled,” Wickenheiser quipped. “Kole comes from a great family. He’s a grounded kid. In a lot of ways, I think he’s your typical Saskatchewan farm boy from a small town. “He’s got a nose for the net and seems to have the ability to score timely goals and not everybody can do that. He’s a good size, and I think he’s not going to be afraid to play in the physical areas at the next level. I also think he’s going to be a good team guy. He comes from a community environment and he remembers where he’s from. “He has that dynamic element as a player, but I also think he’s going to be a guy who will show up night in, night out.” Wickenheiser and Lind aren’t in frequent contact. For instance, they each joked about being surprised when they were both entrants in a summer camp two years ago in Florida run by noted skills coach Darryl Belfry. Kole Lind of the Kelowna Rockets skates with the puck against the Medicine Hat Tigers at Prospera Place in Kelowna. Marissa Baecker / PNG Wickenheiser does keep up on Lind’s exploits, though, following how the 6-foot-1, 185 pounder did in midget with the Saskatoon Contacts and now junior with the Rockets, along with all that went in to the Canucks using a second-round pick, 33rd overall, in last summer’s NHL Draft to snag his rights. When she started up her apparel line, she sent him a care package. Lind wears a black Wickenheiser signature ball cap in the dressing room before every practice and game with the Rockets. “When he was young, I remember thinking, ‘This kid is going to be a player of some sort,’” explained Wickenheiser, who announced her retirement from international hockey last January. “You could just tell. The way he skated, the way he moved the puck, the way his smarts matched his physical ability. “I’m really happy for him. And I think Vancouver Canucks fans will be happy with him for a long, long time.” Lind is a Wickenheiser fan, too. You probably figured that was coming. He says that “she’s the greatest women’s hockey player the game has ever had, and just to know her and have her support pushes me to go further.” Ask him about who he modelled his game after growing up, though, and he goes with another Prairie product, picking Jordan Eberle. It’s logical. Now with the New York Islanders, Eberle, 27, is a right shot right winger known for his offence. Lind would have been about 10 years old when Eberle first burst on the national scene, with his timely tallies at world juniors. Eberle was playing in the WHL for the Regina Pats then. Regina is about three and a half hours from Shaunavon. Kole Lind performs a Long Jump during the NHL Combine at HarborCenter on June 3, 2017 in Buffalo, New York. Bill Wippert / PNG One of the knocks on Eberle over the years has been his commitment to defence. That’s one of the questions about Lind moving forward. Expectations of his play in own zone have been increased by Rockets coach Jason Smith this season, according to both Lind and Smith. For instance, a year ago Lind would come out for the final few seconds of a penalty kill. This time around, Smith has opted to use him on one of his two main forward duos when down a man. “It’s helping me understand the game even more,” said Lind. “I think Jason has really laid it on me and I want to be a guy that he can rely on in all situations.” Smith, 43, who’s in his second year at the helm of the Rockets, maintains that he’s seeing growth in Lind. “I think after going to his first rookie tournament and playing against men at training camp he knows what it takes,” said Smith, who manned the blue line in the NHL for 1,008 regular season games and spent two years as an assistant coach with the Ottawa Senators before coming to the Rockets. “That first training camp is always a real eye opener. “With all young players, the offensive zone is the fun zone. It’s easy to play there if you’re skilled and getting results. But you have to be accountable in your own zone. It’s not about being an elite defender. It’s about being responsible, about not cheating, about your coach being able to put you on the ice late in the period for a faceoff in your own zone. “Kole is trending in the right way. He’s maturing. He’s taking advice. He can deal with criticism.” Skyler McKenzie of the Portland Winterhawks stickchecks Kole Lind of the Kelowna Rockets during third period at Prospera Place in Kelowna. Marissa Baecker / Getty Images Lind was a fourth-round pick of the Rockets in 2013 WHL bantam draft after he produced 22 goals and 46 points in 20 regular season games with his Swift Current Raiders bantam side in 2012-13. He played the following season in midget with the Saskatoon Contacts, and put up 21 goals and 37 points in 44 regular season games. The next year, when he was 16 years old and could have been a full-time regular with the Rockets, they sent him back to the Contacts and he flourished, tallying 45 times and recording 79 points in 44 regular season games. His coach there was Marc Chartier. He’s the father of former Rockets sniper and current San Jose Sharks farmhand Rourke Chartier and his hockey resume includes being a teammate of former Canucks coach Willie Desjardins under coach Dave King with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies when they won the CIAU national title in 1982-83. “He knew where the net was from 200 feet away,” Chartier said of Lind. “Great work ethic, great kid to coach. He never took days off. He was a great kid to coach.” Last week, Lind was named to Team WHL for the Canada-Russia Series, which Hockey Canada lists as one of its precursors to picking the world junior team. They’ll play Nov. 6 in Moose Jaw and then Nov. 7 in Swift Current. Lind scored 30 goals and had 87 points in 70 regular season games last season with Kelowna. http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/canucks-hayley-wickenheiser-talks-up-skills-of-prospect-kole-lind ---- Dudes on pace for 40+ G, 110+ pts season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derp... Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Really hope he makes the WJC this year. Would be great having 2-3 players on team Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeBee51 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Pretty good accolades coming form one of the best women hockey players of all time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flickyoursedin Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Found this on YouTube thought I’d share it here. Lind looks fantastic on the puck and makes things happen with his offensive creativity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckledraggin Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 1 hour ago, flickyoursedin said: Found this on YouTube thought I’d share it here. Lind looks fantastic on the puck and makes things happen with his offensive creativity. Was just about to post this. I'm pretty sure the maker of these vids is a CDC member so I'm not sure why he doesn't post them here on the regular, but he should get props for taking the time and doing an amazing job. Lind has the kind of skill and vision that will look good in a Canucks jersey. He has the playmaking ability that will work great with all of the shoot first players we have in the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Monahan Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, 73 Percent said: Who names their son Ashley... An absent father 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Blight Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, 73 Percent said: Who names their son Ashley... Didn't you ever watch "Gone With The Wind"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckledraggin Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, Rick Blight said: Didn't you ever watch "Gone With The Wind"? or Evil Dead? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48MPHSlapShot Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Just now, canuckledraggin said: or Evil Dead? lol Or Pokemon? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollieo Del Fuego Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 4 hours ago, flickyoursedin said: Found this on YouTube thought I’d share it here. Lind looks fantastic on the puck and makes things happen with his offensive creativity. ....uhhhh...errr.....ahhh.....wow....Lind has grown in so many ways since June..... The highlights show Lind with about 30 good-Great plays....maybe 40.....only about 2-3 neutral plays and one giveaway.... This kid is getting better by the week.... ....Glass who....? .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73 Percent Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 3 hours ago, Rick Blight said: Didn't you ever watch "Gone With The Wind"? Nope 3 hours ago, canuckledraggin said: or Evil Dead? lol Nope (I'm a puss when it comes to scary movies) 3 hours ago, 48MPHSlapShot said: Or Pokemon? Hmmm. I never viewed ash as short for Ashley. Is that true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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