Stick Taps: where I relay Canucks-related news and content that circulated throughout the Smylosphere this week. Rumours, opinion pieces, significant headlines and anything else worth noting to the fan base – I’ve got you covered!
Articles
- Vancouver Canucks players felt heartbreak after Broncos crash (Discover Humboldt)
- Dahlen’s dream year gets him closer to Canucks’ master plan (Ed Willes, The Province)
- Just how did Lukas Jasek go from nowhere to legit prospect in seven games? Hint: It took three years (Jason Botchford, The Province)
- Boeser’s in no rush to get new deal done with Canucks (Jason Botchford, The Province)
- The Canucks are stuck with Brandon Sutter (Nucks Misconduct)
#Canucks president Trevor Linden tells me Kole Lind won't be going back to junior next season: "He won't be back in Kelowna next year, he's going to be a pro. He's going to be most likely in Utica"
— Dhiren Mahiban (@dcmahiban) April 21, 2018
For disgruntled Canucks fans wondering how the Canucks missed out on David Pasternak…According to @JSportsnet this AM on @Sportsnet650 …GM Jim Benning put Thomas Gradin & his European scouts feet to the fire for missing out on Bruins' forward 18 months after the 2014 draft.
— James Cybulski (@JamesCybulski) April 16, 2018
#Canucks prospect Elias Pettersson with 2G and 1A today for Vaxjo – as they take a 3-0 series lead in the SHL finals
He now has 17 PTS (8-9-17) in the SHL playoffs – which includes 8 PTS (4-4-8) in 3 SHL finals games
— Ryan Biech (@ryanbiech) April 21, 2018
The Pasternak tweet is pure revision.
McCann dropping from 17th to 24th was seen as one of the big steals of the first round.
Hence the “it is what it is” comment.
Are all the US scouts on the hot seat for not picking up on Boeser and Gaudette? Don’t think so.
I guess if you don’t have a story you have to make one up.
Botchford’s article on Jasek is a must-read.
Botch is always a must-read. Isn’t a shill for management and isn’t a hater either, just calls it like he sees it, almost always well-reasoned.
If you consider following a blind-drunk with Tourette’s through a mine-field ‘well-reasoned’ then sure … why not.
Thumbs up. I was going to say the same.
The Czech hockey system seems highly dysfunctional — and that spells opportunity. It might be a good hunting ground for an NHL scout who knows that the best players might not always have impressive stats.
You have to wonder if that’s part of the reason the Czechs have become a second tier hockey country compared to 30 years ago. I always assumed their drop was all related to the split with Slovakia, but their system does seem highly dysfunctional.
KM
The Jasek story might have a Alexandre Burrows script. Fighting against all odds to make it to the NHL. Although the Burrows story sparks the imagination of a Canadian hockey fan a little more…
Bingo, wish you were our scout. Market inefficiencies are picks gold. Let’s scout the **** out of the Czech league.
Drafting is an educated lottery. You take the kids who have the best chance of developing into players. Then you hope they develop. Teams can assist with the development to a point, but it’s still involves a lot of chance.
The ranking consensus between Pasternak & McCann wasn’t event close.
Not like Tom Gradin (who isn’t even the Director of scouting for the Canucks) is the only guy out there that got it wrong- every single agency/scouting service had McCann ranked higher.
Even if both players were ranked equally, most NHL teams would go with the North American skater.
Canucks have frequently been criticized for not drafting enough Canadian and local talent.
Pretty evident the Canucks favour their SHL, and NCAA scouting over other teams.
The story is plainly false.
And the Vaxjo Lakers sweep the finals, allowing only one goal in four games. Pettersson got the first two goals of the last game.
Freakin’ amazing.
I can’t believe they left this guy off of the Swedish Olympic Team, and that he didn’t win the Guldhjälmen award. Big stick taps to Pettersson.
In hindsight, could Pettersson have been a first overall pick? I tend to think so…
Time will tell, but I agree with you. I remember Pettersson being the the highest ranked player in a SEAL model comparison of all the players last spring. I’d rather have the best player over a long career than the first player able to play in the NHL.
If they knew Pettersson was going to have this sort of season, there would have been a big debate over Hirschier, Patrick, and Pettersson.
The two goals will make 19 points in the playoffs which is a new record by a teenager and I believe he did it a few less games. 10 points in the four game sweep. It’s hard not to let the expectations go through the roof.
His first goal was freakin amazing!
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