Joni Jurmo? He’s our best prospect in the system, he should make the team

[Fred65]

8 minutes ago, Harold Drunken said:

Lekkerimaki hasn't had a great year, people are writing him off already but he still has a really high ceiling. He's still very promising, he's 18 years old...people are so unbelievably quick to write off prospects. Tage Thomson didn't break out until 24.

That's true but if we're honest with our selves we can only judge by what we see. Lekkermaki was not competitive in the WJC along side his peers. That's not a good sign. I will say this he's done a lot of movinng around so maybe a rest is what he needs

[Baggins]

54 minutes ago, Fred65 said:

Yeah and one of them was Forsling

So what? He was a longshot to make the NHL as is any player selected that late in the draft. 

 

[Fred65]

[Goal:thecup]

On 2/2/2023 at 2:21 PM, Jester13 said:

This is an @Odd.thread.

name checks out

[MeanSeanBean]

2 hours ago, Harold Drunken said:

Jurmo is a very good D prospect, but he's most definitely not our best. There's no evidence or statistics to suggest that. He's very promising though. 

Not sure if he makes my top 5, might not even make the top 10 in our system. 

[Harold Drunken]

3 hours ago, Fred65 said:

That's true but if we're honest with our selves we can only judge by what we see. Lekkermaki was not competitive in the WJC along side his peers. That's not a good sign. I will say this he's done a lot of movinng around so maybe a rest is what he needs

Yeah I mean the WJHC aren't always a good measuring stick for a players future. There's lots of players that have underperformed or been mediocre there that have been great Pro's and vice versa. These are teenagers at the end of the day. I'm not worried, he'll get bigger and stronger and with more coaching etc. He's an 18 year old playing with men. There are quite a few highly regarded players on that Sweden team that didn't have great tournament (Fabian Lysell being one of them too), Lekkerimaki has had bad luck with injuries this year, concussion, mono, now a foot injury. I'm not ready to write off an 18 year old who we just drafted quite yet...he was highly regarded in the draft he just didn't suddenly forget how to be a good player. 

Edited February 7 by Harold Drunken

[Odd.]

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hockey/watch-canucks-prospect-joni-jurmo-goes-end-to-end-for-overtime-goal-6512744
 

 

Sheesh

[Ted Lasso]

5 hours ago, Odd. said:

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/canucks-hockey/watch-canucks-prospect-joni-jurmo-goes-end-to-end-for-overtime-goal-6512744
 

 

Sheesh

That guy is 6’4” and skates like that?
 

Who cares where he ranks in our modest prospect pool - that’s awesome!

[Odd.]

12 minutes ago, Kenny Powers said:

That guy is 6’4” and skates like that?
 

Who cares where he ranks in our modest prospect pool - that’s awesome!

I stand by my position 100%. He’s our best prospect as of today.

[Ted Lasso]

Just now, Odd. said:

I stand by my position 100%. He’s our best prospect as of today.

Noted, haha. I’m not here to debate it. Hope you’re right my friend

[VancouverHabitant]

On 2/7/2023 at 12:29 PM, Baggins said:

So what? He was a longshot to make the NHL as is any player selected that late in the draft. 

 

Hahaha so good!

[Hairy Kneel]

JJ

[Dazzle]

On 2/7/2023 at 2:46 PM, Harold Drunken said:

Yeah I mean the WJHC aren't always a good measuring stick for a players future. There's lots of players that have underperformed or been mediocre there that have been great Pro's and vice versa. These are teenagers at the end of the day. I'm not worried, he'll get bigger and stronger and with more coaching etc. He's an 18 year old playing with men. There are quite a few highly regarded players on that Sweden team that didn't have great tournament (Fabian Lysell being one of them too), Lekkerimaki has had bad luck with injuries this year, concussion, mono, now a foot injury. I'm not ready to write off an 18 year old who we just drafted quite yet...he was highly regarded in the draft he just didn't suddenly forget how to be a good player. 

Juolevi was highly regarded in the draft, until these injuries and slow development made fans turn on him. Then the revisionist historians came back with absolute lies about how they shoulda drafted Sergachev instead, even though he wasn't ranked top 10 at the time.

 

Hindsight really is 20/20. I bet Detroit still regrets not picking up Hughes.

[Hairy Kneel]

10 hours ago, Dazzle said:

Juolevi was highly regarded in the draft, until these injuries and slow development made fans turn on him. Then the revisionist historians came back with absolute lies about how they shoulda drafted Sergachev instead, even though he wasn't ranked top 10 at the time.

 

Hindsight really is 20/20. I bet Detroit still regrets not picking up Hughes.

Nope I knew that instant

Almost threw my Timmies at the tv

[RU SERIOUS]

I sure hope our 2023 1st round draft picks turn-out better than last years pick with Lekkerimäki.   Aside from two concussions, getting Mono and now sidelined for the rest of the entire season with a severly broken foot, he has had a terrible season and is looking like another "BUST".   

 

Why in the world did Alvin have go and pick one his fellow pint-sized countrymen who is a fragile pack of bones and many teams questioned and passed over several times at draft time.   Was it only the comfort factor of having someone that could speak the language?

If one or two pass over a player that's one thing, but EIGHT teams left him in the dust as he fell from being ranked 7th to actually being picked-up (likely as a sympathy pick-up) at 15th by guess who.   Wonder why?  Hmmmmm?????

 

Fingers crossed they don't waste our two 1st round and other picks again this year as out entire 2022 draft class looks like "A BUST" and please try to avoid "comfy" picks of more finesse swedes. 

Hope they put their money where their mouth is and get some BIGGER, FASTER PLAYERS AND DEFENCEMEN.    That's what JR said we needed last year (which we all agreed with) but left Alvin to pick completely polar opposite players than those needs.  

 

Smarten up!

 

  

[The Lock]

1 hour ago, RU SERIOUS said:

I sure hope our 2023 1st round draft picks turn-out better than last years pick with Lekkerimäki.   Aside from two concussions, getting Mono and now sidelined for the rest of the entire season with a severly broken foot, he has had a terrible season and is looking like another "BUST".   

 

Why in the world did Alvin have go and pick one his fellow pint-sized countrymen who is a fragile pack of bones and many teams questioned and passed over several times at draft time.   Was it only the comfort factor of having someone that could speak the language?

If one or two pass over a player that's one thing, but EIGHT teams left him in the dust as he fell from being ranked 7th to actually being picked-up (likely as a sympathy pick-up) at 15th by guess who.   Wonder why?  Hmmmmm?????

 

Fingers crossed they don't waste our two 1st round and other picks again this year as out entire 2022 draft class looks like "A BUST" and please try to avoid "comfy" picks of more finesse swedes. 

Hope they put their money where their mouth is and get some BIGGER, FASTER PLAYERS AND DEFENCEMEN.    That's what JR said we needed last year (which we all agreed with) but left Alvin to pick completely polar opposite players than those needs.  

 

Smarten up!

We also should have totally gone for a Canadian boy like we did Hodgson or a Finnish Juolevi. Those kids never got injured unlike that Swedish countryman. The horror we drafted this kid knowing he'd get injured in the future!

 

Oh wait I should use big text like you do in all of this! Look at me everyone, I'm irrelevant otherwise!

Edited February 9 by The Lock

[DefCon1]

On 2/1/2023 at 5:45 PM, Dazzle said:

Joni Jurmo isn't a defensive defenseman though. He's like Myers, but probably without the boneheaded penalties. Actually, we'd probably be ecstatic if he was that.

 

Sautner/Chatfield were given lots of chances here, but they didn't succeed. Chatfield was ok here, but he had his own defensive lapses. Woo playing forward was not a matter of choice, nor was it indicative of his worth of a defenseman.

We'd be ewtatic if he was Tyler Minors? Jesus Christ your expectations are so low that if he can skate he would have exceeded your expectations lol