Elias Pettersson Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 We didn't have a 1st round pick in 2020 or 2021 and all of our top prospects are now on the big club so what did people expect? If we had kept our 2021 first round pick then we'd have a top 10 prospect in Guenther. And if we had kept our 2020 first round pick we'd have another top 60 prospect in Mukhamadullin. So we'd have 4 guys on the list. Instead we have Miller, OEL and Garland which is fine by me as Mukhamadullin may not even make the NHL and we have tons of players and prospects at RW so Guenther would have been redundant. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure961089 Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 On 8/29/2022 at 1:08 PM, Warhippy said: Our top prospects have been Hoglander Podkolzin Pettersson Boeser Hughes Demko Horvat Since Horvat was drafted in 2013 That's still pretty much an indictment of things here especially when we consider Horvat was drafted in 2013. our only prospects on that list are Rathbone and Lekkerimaki. It's troubling no matter how you look at it. There have been prospects that were traded like McCann and Forsling. Canucks player development was poorly run for many years and they became solid NHLers for other teams. The others like Lind, Virtanen, Juolevi, Woo, Gadjovich were either bad picks or poorly developed, or both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure961089 Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 I’d like to see Hoglander get a ton of icetime in the A rather than him playing on our 4th line. He’s too good to let slip through the cracks, he needs his confidence high. We have the depth now, there’s no need to rush players anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 25 minutes ago, Pure961089 said: There have been prospects that were traded like McCann and Forsling. Canucks player development was poorly run for many years and they became solid NHLers for other teams. The others like Lind, Virtanen, Juolevi, Woo, Gadjovich were either bad picks or poorly developed, or both. Or like 66% of players drafted in the 2nd round, just not good enough to make the NHL... Playing the percentages in the NHL Draft - TSN.ca 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure961089 Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 On 8/29/2022 at 12:55 PM, joe-max said: Well, he was my best player when I won the Finnish Liiga with JYP on "Franchise Hockey Manager" in 2021. So there's that. Recent history with Fins and Linga hasn’t been great the past few years. Laine (questionable attitude) Kakko Lambert Juolevi Since Laine, who’s the next big star to come out of Linga? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure961089 Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 4 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said: Or like 66% of players drafted in the 2nd round, just not good enough to make the NHL... Playing the percentages in the NHL Draft - TSN.ca Not everyone has Tampa’s scouting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe-max Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 3 hours ago, Pure961089 said: Recent history with Fins and Linga hasn’t been great the past few years. Laine (questionable attitude) Kakko Lambert Juolevi Since Laine, who’s the next big star to come out of Linga? Heiskanen? Hintz? Koskenvuo? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wai_lai416 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 lol doesn't matter how you guys spin it.. for a team that missed the playoffs 7 of the past 9 years.. and still not a lock as a playoff contender.. it's still pretty sad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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