Happy thanksgiving everyone, or, as Charles Boyle would say, Happy Turkey Day! What better way to enjoy your day off than to check up on the week to come for the Canucks and their various prospects and affiliates? Your favorite comprehensive Canucks calendar is back for another week, so load up on those leftovers and…
Good morning and welcome back to hockey season! The Vancouver Canucks are just a day away from opening their 2018-19 season, and the Utica Comets are three days away from doing the same. Elsewhere, plenty of other leagues are already well underway, particularly the European leagues, which always have a good headstart on their North…
If you’re living on the Canadian west coast, you have no shortage of reasons to be enthralled by the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. For one, the local team has been decidedly bad the past few years, and in spite of a bevy of talent percolating in the pipeline, the Canucks seem poised to finish the…
Well, hello there. The beauty of creating draft lists is that it’s an extremely subjective process. While the top of most lists have a general sense of similarity, there is also a large amount of diversity throughout that only becomes more pronounced as you move along, simply because no two people value any particular trait…
The Canucks made something of a splash on July 1st when they handed out 7.9 million dollars in average annual value (and 27.6 million dollars in total contract value) to the likes of Jay Beagle, Antoine Roussel, and Tim Schaller. Each of these players, in a vacuum, make fine additions. For two of them (Roussel…
Just outside the top five, we come to one of the biggest risers of the 2018 NHL Draft: Finnish centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi. I bemoaned the lack of respect Kotkaniemi was getting early on in the season (especially relative to fellow Finn Rasmus Kupari), but by the time the Five Nations and World Under-18 tournaments had…
Curtis Douglas is a gargantuan physical specimen of a player, clocking in a 6-foot-8 and over 200 pounds. While the NHL has moved past the days where they’d target players strictly for their size, Douglas has shown enough skill and finesse to indicate that he can have success without relying solely on his size, making…
Benoit-Olivier “Bo” Groulx is a real coach’s player. That makes a mountain of sense, considering he’s the son of Benoit Groulx, the current coach of the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League. The younger Groulx doesn’t have many high calibre skills that jump out at you (aside from a pretty dynamite wrist shot), but…
We all know that Elias Pettersson is a pretty special player, and it certainly seems that the Canucks are intent on treating him like one. After announcing his Entry Level Contract yesterday, it was revealed by CapFriendly today that the Canucks elected to add the maximum allowable ELC performance bonuses. Maxing out on bonuses is…
One of the top scoring re-entries this year is Finnish-born OHL sniper Linus Nyman. The diminutive winger has spent the last two seasons on a powerful Kingston team, benefiting from and contributing to the strength of that group. We have Nyman ranked near the end of our Top 100 last year, and after going unclaimed…
Liam Foudy is another player who benefited from the CHL’s trade deadline, in this because it afforded him a lot more opportunity when his London Knights became sellers. As a result, he saw a huge spike in his offence in the second half of the season. Foudy is a terrific skater and can speed past…
On his third go round when it comes to NHL Entry Draft eligibility, Scott Perunovich is the second oldest player on our Top 100 list, although his mid-August birthday puts him pretty close to draft-plus-one status. What’s really been holding Perunovich back from getting selected the past couple of seasons in his size: listed anywhere…
