Canucks Army Prospect Report – December 3rd, 2014

9 years ago

It is now December, and for many of the Vancouver Canucks prospects their
teams are close to reaching the halfway point on their season. With December that means the World Junior
Championships are just around the corner and we start our yearly Prospect
Invitee Watch, though it looks like there will only be four prospects, at most, invited to various teams.

To see how Vancouver’s prospects have performed this week, continue
past the jump.

Ontario Hockey League

Name	Pos	DOB	Age	Team	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	PIM
Cole Cassels	C	1995-05-04	19	Oshawa	22	12	27	39	1.77	10	53
Jared McCann	C	1996-05-31	18	Sault Ste. Marie	18	8	11	19	1.06	2	6
Jordan Subban	D	1995-03-15	19	Belleville	27	13	13	26	0.96	-3	30
Evan McEneny	D	1994-05-22	20	Kingston	24	0	14	14	0.58	2	22
Kyle Petit	C	1996-01-18	18	Erie	22	8	0	8	0.36	0	6
Miles Liberati	D	1995-06-21	19	North Bay	24	1	4	5	0.21	8	21

Cole Cassels did not play a game this week due to
his suspension.
(Check out a video
breakdown here). Cassels is 9th in OHL scoring and will likely continue to
fall in the standings without any playing time. He was not invited
to the Canadian World Junior Championship (WJC) camp and will not be on
the team. Participating with the USA
is still a possibility (though slim) as he has been invited to the US WJC Camp. Bob McKenzie had this interesting tidbit on Cassels’ suspension:

Cassels was recently suspended by the OHL for 10 games, which would make
him ineligible to play in Team USA’s first two games, but there has
been talk of the OHL reducing his suspension to permit him to start the
tourney, assuming he makes the team.

Jared McCann played in 3 games scoring 2 assists
and earned a +1.
Jordan Subban played in 3 games and scored 1
goal to go along side his -6 and 4 PIM.
He is currently T-2nd in OHL Defencemen scoring, with Anthony
DeAngelo having jumped to first place (with five less games played).
Evan McEneny played in 3 games and earned 4
PIM. For what it is worth, McEneny is
T-20th in OHL defencemen scoring.
Sniper Kyle Petit has played in 3 games scoring
2 goals and earning 4 PIM.
Miles Liberati, the phantom menace, played in 3
games earning 2 PIM.

Western Hockey League

Name	Pos	DOB	AGE	Team	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	PIM
Jake Virtanen	LW	1996-08-17	18	Calgary	17	7	12	19	1.12	3	26
MacKenze Stewart	D	1995-08-10	19	Prince Albert	24	2	4	6	0.25	-4	46
Anton Cederholm	D	1995-02-21	19	Portland	26	4	2	6	0.23	-5	36

Jake Virtanen played in 3 games, including a 9-5 win in which he earned zero points, scoring 2 goals,
1 assist, earning a +1 and 6 PIM. He is the
only Canadian Canucks prospect to be invited to the WJC camp and has a good chance
to make the team.
MacKenze Stewart played in 2 games and scored an
assist alongside a +2 and 7 PIM.
Anton Cederholm played in 2 games, earning a +3
and 4 PIM.

NCAA

Name	Pos	DOB	AGE	School	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	S	S/G	Sh%	PIM
Patrick McNally	D	1991-12-04	22	ECAC / Harvard	8	3	6	9	1.13	7	19	2.38	15.79%	2
Joseph LaBate	F	1993-04-16	21	Big 10 / Wisconsin	10	1	4	5	0.50	-5	27	2.70	3.70%	16
Ben Hutton	D	1993-04-20	21	Hockey East / Maine	14	2	3	5	0.36	-9	32	2.29	6.25%	4
Mike Williamson	D	1993-09-05	21	Big 10 / Penn State	6	0	1	1	0.17	-1	8	1.33	0.00%	8
Matthew Beattie	F	1992-12-14	21	ECAC / Yale	9	0	1	1	0.11	1	9	1.00	0.00%	2

Last week, Harvard played a single game against
UMass Lowell and won 4-2. This week, the
Crimson Tide will face Princeton and Quinnipiac on Friday and Saturday. McNally was held to 2 SOG, a +1, and 2 PIM.
The University of Wisconsin played 2 games this past week tying Ferris St. and then defeating them 5-3 in the second match. The Badgers will face
Penn State in back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday. In the two games, Joseph LaBate scored 1
assist and registered 4 shots on goal.
The University of Maine was held to another pair
of losses this week against Vermont, losing 3-6 and 1-4. The Black Bears will face UMass Lowell on
Saturday. Ben Hutton went -5 on the week
with 1 shot on goal, 2 PIM and went 0 for 1 in the face-off circle.
Penn State had a single game on the schedule
this week, a 1-3 loss vs Cornell. The
Nittany Lions will travel to Wisconsin for a pair of games this weekend. Mike Williamson did not play.
The Yale Bulldogs won 2-0 against Rochester
Institute this week and in the upcoming week has a pair of back-to-back games
against Rensselaer and Union. In the
lone game, Matthew Beattie had 2 shots on goal.

Name	Pos	DOB	Age	School	GP	Assists	Mins	GA	GAA	Record	Svs	Sv%
Thatcher Demko	G	1995-12-08	18	H-East / Boston College	13	1	778	29	2.24	7-6-0	330	91.92%

Boston College had a bad week losing 2-6 to
Minnesota and then 0-1 at Providence.
This next weekend sees Boston College travelling to Providence and New
Hampshire on Friday and Saturday.
Thatcher Demko made 24 of 29 saves and then a whopping 37 on 38
saves. He currently has a .919 save percentage on the
year, and has dropped out of the Top 50 NCAA goaltenders in save percentage. Demko is likely to make the United States WJC
team.

Europe

Name	Pos	DOB	AGE	Team	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	SOG	SOG/G	Sh%	PIM	TOI
Gustav Forsling	D	1996-06-12	18	SHL / Linkoping	25	3	2	5	0.20	6	45	1.80	6.67%	6	18:33
Nikita Tryamkin	D	1994-08-04	20	KHL / Avtomobilist	33	0	3	3	0.09	0	41	1.24	0.00%	23	15:54

Nikita Tryamkin played in 2 games, earned 3
shots-on-goal and 4 penalty minutes.
Gustav Forsling had an exciting week; playing in
3 games he scored 1 goal, earned 10 shots-on-goal and 4 penalty-minutes. ESPN Scout
Corey Pronman indicates that Forsling is on the bubble to make Sweden’s WJC team.

ECHL

ECHL	Pos	DOB	AGE	Team	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	SOG	S/G	Sh%	PIM
Curtis Valk	C	1993-02-08	21	Kalamzoo	12	4	9	13	1.08	1	30	2.50	13.33%	4
Ludwig Blomstrand	LW	1993-03-08	21	Kalamzoo	12	5	5	10	0.83	-2	24	2.00	20.83%	8
Dane Fox	F	1993-10-13	21	Kalamzoo	15	4	4	8	0.53	-3	28	1.87	14.29%	26
Jeremie Blain	D	1992-03-19	22	Kalamzoo	8	2	1	3	0.38	-8	20	2.50	10.00%	2

The Kalamazoo Wings are currently in 6th
place in their North Division with 14 points in 6 games. This week the K-Wings lost 1-4 vs Fort Wayne,
4-6 vs Toledo and 1-3 vs Orlando. They
have three games on the schedule for the week: tonight at home vs Florida, then
on the road on Friday and Saturdays in Evansville and Cincinnati.
Curtis Valk played in 1 game this week earning 1
shot-on-goal.
Dane Fox played in 3 games scoring 1 goal and a
+1. He notched 5 shots-on-goal and 13
penalty-minutes.
Ludwig Blomstrand played in 3 games earning 1
assist and a -1 to go with his 6 shots-on-goal and 4 penalty-minutes.
Both Jeremie Blain and Joe Cananta are in Utica
right now and did not play in the ECHL this week.