Blackfish: Canucks Army Weekly Prospect Report – December 10th, 2015

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Hockey season rolls on throughout the world bringing about another handful of games for the young players in the Vancouver Canucks system. Every week during hockey season since the beginning of the 2013-14 NHL campaign, Canucks Army has posted a weekly prospects report, and every week the same writer has hunted down the stats and various factoids, tirelessly assembled them in a single document, and handed it off to one of several different editors to transform into something readable for the masses.

That is until this week, as I have been granted the honourable yet daunting task of following in Josh Weissbock’s shoes. Our missing comrade, off on a new adventure with BFF Money Puck to right the wrongs of some lucky NHL organization, bestowed this report on to me, at least for the time being.

Josh’s interest in prospects brought him to Canucks Army and guided the bulk of his work. Right from the get-go, his work was detailed and engaging, and naturally rife with spelling and grammatical errors.

A little over two years later, the Prospect Report finally got a title: Blackfish, whatever that means. I assume it’s something very clever.

If it seems like I’ve been waxing poetic about Josh and MP a lot lately, it’s because I have been. In fact, I’ve made reference to them in each of my last four articles. Deal with it.

And MP (I know you’re reading), if it seems like Josh is getting the bulk of my sappy tributes, don’t worry: you’ll get yours.

Without further ado, let’s get into that thing that you probably came here to see: prospects and stuff.

60% of the time, they develop into NHL players every time.

Canadian Hockey League

Name	Pos	Age	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Carl Neill	D	19.156	Carl Neill	28	4	23	27	0.96	-4	41	66	6.1%	2.36
Dmitry Zhukenov	C	18.260	North Dakota	27	7	16	23	0.85	-5	24	43	16.3%	1.59
Tate Olson	D	18.263	Prince George	23	2	17	19	0.83	+12	35
Guillaume Brisebois	D	18.141	Acadie-Bathurst	28	4	8	12	0.43	-10	16	53	7.5%	1.89
Kyle Pettit	C	19.325	Erie	28	4	5	9	0.32	+9	8

Carl Neill hit an apparent bump in the road this week, going pointless in consecutive games for the first time all season. He finished the week with a single assist in three games and fell below the point per game mark for the first time since November 20th. Regardless, he’s having a hell of a season, especially for a fifth round pick.
Dmitry Zhukenov picked up a pair of assists in two games this week. His goal scoring has ticked upwards lately, which I assume improves his PCS. Unfortunately, that information is proprietary now so I can’t say for sure (sad face). In any case, he’s on a three-game point streak.
Tate Olson, the seventh-round pick from this year’s draft in also having a good season. His Prince George Cougars have won eight of their last ten games, and he has nine points in his last nine games. Coincidence? I have no idea. Olson had three points in three games this week.
Guillaume Brisebois hasn’t exactly lit it up this season, but he has been getting better as the months go on. This week he had two points in two games. Last Friday he had his first two-assist effort of the season – it was also only his second multi-point night of the year.
Kyle Pettit also played hockey this week, and he had two penalty minutes to prove it. He also took zero shots on net, though he won 22 of 34 faceoffs (65 per cent). Props to the OHL for collecting faceoff data now, by the way, it sure is useful *glares at AHL*

NCAA

Name	Pos	Age	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Brock Boeser	RW	18.287	North Dakota	18	11	8	19	1.06	+21	0	61	18.0%	3.39
Adam Gaudette	C	19.062	Northeastern	17	3	2	5	0.29	-7	0	35	8.6%	2.06
Mike Williamson	D	22.095	Penn State	4	0	1	1	0.25	-1	2	9	0.0%	2.25

Brock Boeser is a golden god, and I mean that as respectfully as possible. The UND Fighting Hawks played twice last weekend and Boeser contributed three goals, and they were all #nice. I mean jeez, this guy can lean into a shot. He currently leads all NCAA freshmen in goals, and is just three off of the national lead.

Adam Gaudette played twice last weekend, earning no points and taking seven shots on net. To be fair, he was playing against Thatcher Demko in both games, and Demko is freakishly good.
Mike Williamson played in one game last week, earning his first point of the season (an assist). He had previously missed 11 games with what I assume was an injury (nobody has told me otherwise).
Matthew Beattie still hasn’t played a game this season, which I assume is also due to injury.

Europe

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP	TOI
Anton Rödin	LW	25.018	SHL	Brynäs	24	13	17	30	1.25	8	12	64	20.3%	2.67	19:07
Nikita Tryamkin	D	21.101	KHL	Avtomobilist	40	4	7	11	0.28	1	28	65	6.2%	1.63	18:05
Lukas Jasek	RW	18.103	Extraliga	HC Trinec	12	1	1	2	0.17	-1	8	7	14.3%	0.58	8:03

Rodin played in one game last week, earning a -2 rating in just 11:25 of ice time. He did not suit up at all for Brynas IF’s game on Saturday. Combined with the fact that 11:25 is nearly eight whole minutes under Rodin’s average ice time for the season, could he be banged up? Let’s go to Sweden to find out:

I’ll let you translate that yourself. It’s gold.

Nikita Tryamkin played three games last week, racking up five shots, six PIMs and 11 hits, but no points.
Lukas Jasek scored his first professional goal ever this week, so congratulations to him, and also to JD for always believing in him.

AHL

Name	Pos	Age	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Hunter Shinkaruk	LW	21.058	19	11	8	19	1.00	0	6	43	25.6%	2.26
Alexandre Grenier	RW	24.096	23	4	9	13	0.57	-3	20	58	6.9%	2.52
Linden Vey	C	24.146	23	2	11	13	0.57	-5	8	37	5.4%	1.61
Brendan Gaunce	LW	22.260	12	5	5	10	0.83	+2	6	30	16.7%	2.50
Alex Friesen	C	24.314	21	5	5	10	0.48	+3	30	36	13.9%	1.71
Nicklas Jensen	RW	22.279	17	4	6	10	0.59	+2	10	48	8.3%	2.82
Andrey Pedan	D	22.160	18	2	7	9	0.50	+7	43	39	5.1%	2.17
Jordan Subban	D	20.282	16	1	7	8	0.50	-2	4	22	4.5%	1.38
Ronalds Kenins	LW	24.285	7	0	1	1	0.14	-1	8	8	0.0%	1.14
Cole Cassels	RW	20.220	17	0	1	1	0.06	-5	7	9	0.0%	0.53

Not a whole lot went on with the prospects in Utica last week. Nick Jensen scored a goal, and Alex Grenier’s empty netter tied the all-time franchise record for goals (38). Vey finally got off the schneid yesterday and Gaunce had a couple of assists in his return from injury.

For a far more in-depth look at the Comets’ week that was, check out my Week in Review article here.

ECHL

Name	Pos	Age	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PIM	SOG	Sh%	SOG/GP
Dane Fox	RW	22.057	21	7	10	17	0.81	-5	32	58	12.1%	2.76
Ludwig Blomstrand	LW	22.276	22	3	7	10	0.45	-16	16	56	5.4%	2.55
Anton Cederholm	D	20.291	21	0	4	4	0.19	0	30	33	0.0%	1.57
Evan McEneny	D	21.201	2	0	2	2	1.00	-1	0	3	0.0%	1.50
Mackenze Stewart	LW	20.121	6	0	0	0	0.00	-3	5	3	0.0%	0.50

Rejoice fans of ECHL prospects, the KWings now get their own weekly piece as well! Sarah Hobday, who actually goes to the games, is now a Canucks Army contributor! Check out her latest piece on the Kalamazoo Wings here.

Leaders

Here’s a look at the top 10 point getters this season among all Canucks prospects:

The full searchable and sortable table of Canucks prospects and their stats can be found at the Prospects Stats page at OneCanuck.com.

Schedule

	Thursday Dec 10, 2015	Friday Dec 11, 2015	Saturday Dec 12, 2015	Sunday Dec 13, 2015	Monday Dec 14, 2015	Tuesday Dec 15, 2015	Wednesday Dec 16, 2015
COMETS		vs Toronto 4:00pm		at Toronto 12:00pm			vs Rochester 4:00pm
KWINGS		vs Brampton 4:00pm	vs Brampton 4:00pm
CHL		Guillaume Brisebois Carl Neill Kyle Pettit Tate Olson	Dmitry Zhukenov Kyle Pettit Tate Olson	Guillaume Brisebois Dmitry Zhukenov		Tate Olson
NCAA	Thatcher Demko	Brock Boeser Mike Williamson Matthew Beattie	Brock Boeser
European	Nikita Tryamkin	Lukas Jasek		Lukas Jasek

Courtesy OneCanuck.com

That’s the rundown of Canucks prospects for this week. Hopefully, I did Josh Weissbock justice. If he doesn’t think so, all I have to say is MUFB Josh.