Canucks Army Podcast Episode 6

Thomas Drance
July 26 2011 02:12PM

Hey everybody!

Here's your Tuesday edition of the Canucks Army podcast! Our guest in this episode was the inimitable Cam Charron, and we discussed a wide variety of topics - some of them requested by you, the listener!

We talked about the potential of Chris Tanev playing in the top four, we talked about the shelf-life of the Vancouver Canucks core, and we discussed Kesler's future output (I went on and on about my theory that Ryan Kesler's career may end up being very similar to Chris Drury's).

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Thanks for listening, and check back on Thursday when we'll have a fresh podcast for your listening pleasure!

Cheers.

Thomas Drance lives in Toronto, eats spicy food and writes about hockey. He is the managing editor of CanucksArmy.com and an opinionated blowhard to boot. You can follow him on twitter @thomasdrance.

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Reply #1 Cam Charron July 26 2011, 03:08PM

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Addendum on the Kesler note:

Here are the five most-recent players who have broken 40 goals in both their 26th and 27th years:

Vincent Lecavalier Dany Heatley Jaromir Jagr Teemu Selanne John LeClair

Suffice to say, let's not get our hopes up over Kesler. We're definitely looking at regression, and may only crack 30.

Reply #2 Kent Wilson July 26 2011, 03:29PM

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@Cam Charron

That's a reasonable expectation. His SH% last year was 15.8, a career high. His average is 12.4. At that rate, he would have scored 32.

Reply #3 Malcolm Ert July 26 2011, 07:50PM

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I think you missed one of the most significant pillars. Alex Burrows. His contract @ 2 million, and the ability to rely on him on the top line and contributing in the ways he does makes him per dollar our most valuable player on our team and why our window is two years.

Reply #4 Thomas Drance July 26 2011, 08:04PM

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That's a good point Malcolm - Burrows has been a steal for a few years. Him and Edler are easily the two most important players expiring in two seasons time.

Reply #5 Kent Wilson July 26 2011, 09:16PM

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@Malcolm Ert

I hate that guy, but it's hard to argue he's not effective.

Reply #6 Zandberg July 26 2011, 11:17PM

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Cam Charron wrote:

Addendum on the Kesler note:
Here are the five most-recent players who have broken 40 goals in both their 26th and 27th years:
Vincent Lecavalier Dany Heatley Jaromir Jagr Teemu Selanne John LeClair
Suffice to say, let's not get our hopes up over Kesler. We're definitely looking at regression, and may only crack 30.

Based on that? Wow.

Reply #7 Thomas Drance July 27 2011, 07:50AM

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Cam's point Malcolm is that Kesler joins some pretty elite company if he can repeat his goal scoring output from last season.

The percentages are against him - even if he shoots 20% on the PP and hits 15 PP tallies again - he'll be hard pressed to score forty goals. Say he takes 130 shots with 65 misses, and regresses to his average total shooting percentage at even-strength (8.5%) from the last three years - that's only 16-17 goals for a total of ~30. Nothing wrong with being a dominant two-way player and thirty goal scorer...

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