Blackfish: CanucksArmy Prospect Report – January 18th, 2018

6 years ago

We are back with everyone’s favourite prospect report, Blackfish.

This week, the Vaxjos Lakers have moved onto the CHL finals at the expense of Liberec and Lukas Jasek. Kole Lind continues his torrid pace and Jonah Gadjovich continues to miss games.

In the net – Thatcher Demko and Michael DiPietro continue to excel in their respective leagues.

Let’s dive in!

All the images of stats are from Elite Prospects.

CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Western Hockey League

Three games and three points for 2017 2nd round pick, Kole Lind. He is now on a thirteen game point streak, which includes 10 goals and 13 assists. He is first on the Rockets in scoring, 23rd in the WHL, but is 7th in points per game.

Jakub Stukel picks up one goal and one assist in three games this past week for the Calgary Hitmen. He remains on their first line.

Ontario Hockey League

We have a new points leader in among the OHL Canucks prospects as Matt Brassard passes Jonah Gadjovich to claim the title. He has played almost twice a many games though. Brassard had one goal and two assists over the last seven days. He has been playing a lot of minutes for the Generals and has been playing fairly well. Good signs from a 7th round pick.

Jonah Gadjovich did not dress for any games this past week as he has an ‘illness’. No word on when he will return or what ails him.
Brett McKenzie picked up one assist in four games with Owen Sound. He is firmly in their 2nd line centre spot but if production picks up, he may start to lose ice time.
Second week in a row that Cole Candella had one assist in three games.

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	Record	GAA	SV%	S/O
Michael DiPietro	G	18	OHL	Windsor	26	20-10-1	2.61	0.921%	3

Michael DiPietro continues to hold down the fort for the young Spitfires. He is still holding strong with his save percentage, mostly because he is facing a barrage every night.

NCAA

Gaudette had himself a weekend – putting up two goals and three assists in two games. He is first in NCAA scoring, P/GP and PPP. You can vote for him for the Hobey Baker award here.

William Lockwood’s season is done due to injury

USHS

I believe Rathbone returned to the Dexter School lineup this past week – but it’s difficult to track.

EUROPE

Sweden

Elias Pettersson had one goal in SHL action this past week and scored two goals in CHL action. With the win on Tuesday, Vaxjo moves on the CHL finals against JYP. The game is single knockout on Feburary 6.

Rodrigo Abols is on loan to BIK Karlskoga in Allsvenskan.
Another week and no points for Gunnarsson.

Jonathan Dahlen with one goal and one assist for Timra this past week.
Rodrigo Abols had himself a decent week. Picking up three goals and one assist in two games, which included the OT winner on Tuesday

Finland

Petrus Palmu was held off the scoresheet this past week. He remains on TPS second line.
Olli Juolevi ends the week with one assist in three games.

Russia

Nikita Tryamkin was held off the scoresheet in his one game this week. He was a participant in the KHL All Star game this past weekend.
Dmitry Zhukenov is back in the MHL – he is up to 16 PTS (4-12-16) in 17 games there, including an assist today.

Czech Republic

Lukas Jasek with zero points in two games this past week.

AHL

Since our last update – Marco Roy was released from his professional tryout
Dylan Bjulus was released from his PTO and signed to an AHL deal.
Nikolay Goldobin was re-assigned to the Comets and has torn it up since.
Michael Chaput remains with the Canucks.
If you are looking for in-depth post-game reports about each Comets game – go to Cory Hergott’s author page here.