Blackfish: Canucks Army Prospect Report: January 7th, 2016

8 years ago

Happy New Year!

The World Juniors are now over with host Finland capturing their second gold medal in the last three years. The NHL trading deadline is suddenly on everyones mind with some trades yesterday and hopefully they continue. But for the Canucks specifically, their prospects continue to make noise around the hockey world. The Comets are in the thick of the playoff race in the AHL with the CHL playoffs wide open as well.

So let’s wake up from that holiday slumber and take a look at the past week for Canucks prospects.

World Juniors

Name	Pos	Age	Country	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Brock Boeser	RW	18.315	USA	7	1	2	3	0.43	+2	2	12	8.3%	1.71
Jake Virtanen	LW	19	Canada	5	0	1	1	0.2	0	10	10	0.0%	2.00

Brock Boeser won a bronze medal after the US routed Sweden at the World Juniors. Overall Boeser had an okay tournament in a depth role for the US. I would expect him to return next year and have a bigger offensive role.
We all know what happened with Jake Virtanen, and I am not going to pile on. Overall Canada had a bad showing and Virtanen was a part of that. Here’s hoping he can regain some confidence and have a good second half, whether that be here or for the Calgary Hitmen. Virtanen took a penalty on the play below, but I don’t care, I loved it

CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	NHLe	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Carl Neill	D	19.184	QMJHL	Carl Neill	36	5	31	36	1.00	21.3	-10	47	86	5.8%	2.39
Dmitry Zhukenov	C	18.288	QMJHL	Chicoutimi	35	9	23	32	0.91	19.5	0	36	56	16.1%	1.60
Tate Olson	D	18.291	WHL	Prince George	34	3	24	27	0.82	18.1	+17	52
Guillaume Brisebois	D	18.169	QMJHL	Acadie-Bathurst	33	6	12	18	0.55	11.6	-6	16	67	9.0%	2.03
Kyle Pettit	C	19.353	OHL	Erie	36	6	7	13	0.36	9.5	+11	8
Mackenze Stewart	LW	20.149	WHL	Tri-City	4	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	4	0

If you haven’t already, check out where I wrote an in-depth look at Carl Neill earlier this week. Neill played three games this week, where he put up 2 assists. He finished the week with -3 with 9 SOG.

Dmitry Zhukenov pushed his point streak to 10 games with 1 assist on New Years Eve. Unfortunately, he did not put up any points in Chicoutimi’s game on Sunday, thus ending the point streak. He had 2 SOG and finished -1.
Tate Olson played two games this week against the Vancouver Giants; he finished at +/- 0 and 0 SOG. He played last night where he was held pointless and took 2 PIM.
Obviously Kyle Pettit reads Blackfish every week, as I mentioned that he had an increased role with Dylan Strome at the World Juniors and he wasn’t doing much. Pettit had a good week putting up 2 goals and 1 assist in 3 games.
Guillaume Brisebois left the Acadie Bathurst Titan game on December 29th and hasn’t returned. Although I have been unable to find any confirmation, it’s safe to assume he is injured with something.
Mackenze had his first full week back in the CHL; he finished the week with 4 PIM. He was playing defence on Tuesday against Victoria, but that may change with Brandon Carlo returning from the World Juniors. I don’t know if the Canucks will like if he keeps playing defence, as they seem bent on making him a forward as a pro.

NCAA

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	NHLe	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Brock Boeser	RW	18.315	NCAA-NCHC	North Dakota	20	13	8	21	1.05	35.3	+22	0	68	19.1%	3.40
Adam Gaudette	C	19.090	NCAA-HE	Northeastern	19	4	2	6	0.32	9.6	-8	0	40	10.0%	2.11
Mike Williamson	D	22.123	NCAA-Big-10	Penn State	6	0	1	1	0.17	4.8	-2	2	14	0.0%	2.33

Brock Boeser was in Finland winning a bronze medal, so he didn’t play any games for University of North Dakota. This goal by Boeser’s linemate, Drake Caggiula this week was fantastic.

Adam Gaudette played one game this week and scored a goal!
Mike Williamson did not play any games this week.

Name	Pos	DOB	AGE	Team	GP	Mins	GA	SA	SV	Sv%	GAA	Record	SO
Thatcher Demko	G	95-12-08	20	Boston College	18	1081	31	486	455	0.936	1.72	13-4-1	6

Thatcher Demko did not play any games this week.

EUROPE

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	NHLe	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Anton Rödin	LW	25.046	SHL	Brynäs	30	16	18	34	1.13	55.8	8	14	85	18.8%	2.83
Nikita Tryamkin	D	21.129	KHL	Avtomobilist	43	4	7	11	0.26	16.8	-3	40	68	5.9%	1.58
Lukas Jasek	RW	18.131	Extraliga	HC Trinec	18	2	1	3	0.17		-1	14	15	13.3%	0.83

Anton Rodin played 1 game this week where he was held pointless in a 3-0 loss to Skelleftea. He had 20:57 of ice time where he was -1 and had 2 SOG.
Nikita Tryamkin returned to KHL action this week and was held pointless in their only game. He was -2 and had 12 PIM
Lukas Jasek played one game this week, where he was held pointless.

AHL

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	NHLe	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Hunter Shinkaruk	LW	21.085	AHL	Utica	27	13	12	25	0.93	35.7	+4	12	67	19.4%	2.48
Alexandre Grenier	RW	24.123	AHL	Utica	33	6	13	19	0.58	22.2	-4	26	78	7.7%	2.36
Brendan Gaunce	LW	22.287	AHL	Utica	22	9	9	18	0.82	31.5	+6	10	52	17.3%	2.36
Jordan Subban	D	20.309	AHL	Utica	26	5	12	17	0.65	25.2	-2	12	46	10.9%	1.77
Linden Vey	C	24.173	AHL	Utica	26	3	12	15	0.58	22.2	-5	8	43	7.0%	1.65
Alex Friesen	C	24.341	AHL	Utica	28	7	6	13	0.46	17.9	+5	34	48	14.6%	1.71
Nicklas Jensen	RW	22.306	AHL	Utica	27	4	8	12	0.44	17.1	+3	20	82	4.9%	3.04
Andrey Pedan	D	22.187	AHL	Utica	19	2	7	9	0.47	18.3	+6	49	41	4.9%	2.16
Ashton Sautner	D	21.224	AHL	Utica	20	3	5	8	0.40	15.4	+1	2	25	12.0%	1.25
Cole Cassels	RW	20.247	AHL	Utica	26	1	1	2	0.08	3.0	-6	9	16	6.3%	0.62
Ronalds Kenins	LW	24.312	AHL	Utica	8	0	1	1	0.13	4.8	-1	8	9	0.0%	1.13

Jordan Subban is now first in defenceman scoring for Utica and is 4th on the team behind Canucks prospect Hunter Shinkaruk, Alexandre Grenier and Brendan Gaunce.
Brendan Gaunce continues to play centre.
The Comets are finally getting some players back with Ashton Sautner, Ronalds Kenins and Alexandre Grenier being assigned to the AHL throughout this past week.
Darren Archibald has signed a standard player contract with Utica, and should remain there for the rest of this season.
Joe Cannata, Linden Vey & Alex Biega are all up with the Canucks.
Go check out Jeremy Davis’s in-depth look at the week that was for the Comets.

ECHL

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	NHLe	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Dane Fox	RW	22.085	ECHL	Kalamazoo	30	11	16	27	0.90		-1	64	86	12.8%	2.87
Ludwig Blomstrand	LW	22.304	ECHL	Kalamazoo	31	7	11	18	0.58		-16	24	79	8.9%	2.55
Anton Cederholm	D	20.319	ECHL	Kalamazoo	29	0	6	6	0.21		+3	32	35	0.0%	1.21
Curtis Valk	D	22.332	ECHL	Kalamazoo	2	1	2	3	1.50		+2	4	5	20.0%	2.50
Evan McEneny	D	21.229	ECHL	Kalamazoo	2	0	2	2	1.00		-1	0	3	0.0%	1.50

Dane Fox had another good week putting up 1 goal and 2 assists; he also had 7 PIM, was +3 and had 8 SOG
Ludwig Blomstrand had a huge game on New Years Eve putting up 2 goals and 2 assists. He finished the week with 9 shots on goal and +1
Anton Cederholm finished with 1 assist; he is still looking for his first professional goal.
Curtis Valk returned to the Kalamazoo lineup this week to play his first games of the season. He had 1 goal and 2 assists during the New Years eve game and then was held pointless in the other game for Kalamazoo. Once he gets his legs back under him, I won’t be surprised to see up in Utica.
Even McEneny did not play a game this week as he remains on IR.

Name	Pos	DOB	AGE	Team	GP	Minutes	GA	SV	SA	SV%	GAA	Record	SO
Clay Witt	G	91-08-24	24	Kalamazoo	5	234	17	110	127	0.866	4.35	0-4-0	0

Joe Cannata remains with Vancouver, thus Clay Witt is up with Utica. But again, Witt did not see any action in the AHL this week.

Well there you have it, another week over in the Canucks prospect world. Until then, Matthew Henderson and Shia Labeouf have some very important words for the Canucks and their prospects: