Blackfish: CanucksArmy Prospect Report – March 1st, 2018

6 years ago

The trading deadline is in the rearview mirror and teams start to focus on long playoff runs with hopes of capturing their league title.

It’s clear that the Canucks won’t be making the dance in the NHL, but their prospects have a lot to prove in the final month of the regular season and playoffs.

This week saw some really good performances from some of the organizations top prospects. There has been a lot of talk about negativity in the market this week, but that isn’t what this report is about. It’s about the future, and there is a lot to be positive about there.

Let’s take a look at the week that was for the organizations up and comers.

All the images of stats are from Elite Prospects.

CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Western Hockey League

Kole Lind is back! In four games over the past week, he posted four goals and three assists including a 4 point performance (3-1-4) last night vs Prince George. The Rockets will look to make hay in the WHL playoffs this year led by Lind, Dillon Dube and Cal Foote.

Jakub Stukel also had a very good week – putting up three goals and four assists in four games this week for Calgary. His late-season resurgence has been good to see.

Ontario Hockey League

Matt Brassard continues to put up points with two assists in three games this week for Oshawa. It was a slower week for the top pairing defencemen for the Generals, but this pass was dynamite:

Brett McKenzie picks up two assists in the past week for Owen Sound – as he gets more comfortable in his depth role with the Attack.
Gadjovich continues to get his feet under him after missing a couple of games due to an apparent back injury. He had two goals and two assists in three games this past week.

Cole Candella is held off the scoresheet for another week.

Name	Pos	Age	League	Team	GP	Record	GAA	SV%	S/O
Michael DiPietro	G	18	OHL	Windsor	49	26-18-5	2.77	0.912%	6

Michael DiPietro quietly picks up two wins for Windsor over the last seven days. Despite stripping the roster of most of their stars at the deadline, the Spitfires will be likely making the playoffs and DiPietro has been a huge part of their success.

NCAA

Have you head of this Adam Gaudette kid? He continues to put up points and lead the NCAA in scoring. Over the past week, he posted two goals and three assists in two games. Northeastern will have the week off, as they earned a bye in the Hockey East Playoffs. Lastly… Gaudette was named Hockey East Player of the Month for February – he had 17 PTS in 8 games.

William Lockwood’s season is done due to injury.

USHS

Jack Rathbone is up to 10 goals and 19 assists in 16 games – which remains the best PPG pace among defencemen in the New England Prep School League.

EUROPE

Sweden

Elias Pettersson’s season is back underway after the Olympics. Vaxjo has signed former NHL’r Dennis Rasmussen, which shifted Pettersson back to the RW. Which can be viewed as a good thing, as it allows him to rover a bit and attack with the puck. He had two goals and one assist over the two games this week. Vaxjo plays at 10 AM PT.

Rodrigo Abols is on loan to BIK Karlskoga in Allsvenskan.
Kristoffer Gunnarsson is still searching for his first point of the season. It is encouraging that he has been able to secure a full-time spot with Frolunda this year

Just going to get this out of the way – Timra is fun to watch these days. Jacob Olofsson, Filip Hallander, Fabian Zetterlund and Jonathan Dahlen give them great offensive depth and work ethic. Dahlen put up one goal and one assist in two games over the past week.

Rodrigo Abols with only one goal in two games over the past week.

Finland

Petrus Palmu with one assist in TPS’ only game this week. He continues to remain a mainstay on their 2nd line
Olli Juolevi has worked his way back up the lineup and played on the top pairing last game, picking up this goal:

Russia

Nikita Tryamkin only played one game this week and was held off the scoresheet. Some people on twitter pointed out that he liked some Canucks related things on Instagram this month, so the organization has that going for them?
Zhukenov remains in the MHL and picked up three assists in two games. He is up to 10 goals and 23 assists in 32 games.

Czech Republic

Lukas Jasek was able to break the slump after the Olympic Break with one assist in two games for Bili Tygri Liberec.

AHL

Earlier in the week, Jacob Markstrom returned to the NHL roster, so there was a shuffle down effect. Richard Bachman was reassigned to the Comets and Michael Garteig was sent back to Kalamazoo.
Nikolay Goldobin and Tyler Motte were ‘papered’ on trade deadline day to ensure that they are eligible for the AHL playoffs.
Justin Taylor and Mathieu Brodeur were released from the PTO’s over the last 7 days.
If you are looking for in-depth post-game reports about each Comets game – go to Cory Hergott’s author page here.