Canucks Army Weekly Prospect Report – November 20th, 2014

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It’s been another week in the Smylosphere as the Canucks prospects have been busy, doing what they do best, battling in corners and playing a full 60 minutes. With that said some prospects are beginning to stand out while others are leading fans to question their future. Without wasting time, let’s get right into the non-AHL prospects!

Ontario Hockey League

Name	Pos	DOB	Age	Team	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	PIM
Cole Cassels	C	1995-05-04	19	Oshawa	20	10	25	35	1.75	11	42
Jared McCann	C	1996-05-31	18	Sault Ste. Marie	12	7	9	16	1.33	1	6
Jordan Subban	D	1995-03-15	19	Belleville	21	11	13	24	1.14	4	24
Evan McEneny	D	1994-05-22	20	Kingston	18	0	11	11	0.61	3	18
Kyle Petit	C	1996-01-18	18	Erie	17	6	0	6	0.32	0	2
Miles Liberati	D	1995-06-21	19	North Bay	19	1	4	5	0.26	7	19

Cassels continued his strong play with 3 games, 3 goals and 2 assists, adding a +3. Cassels is 5th in the OHL in scoring, and was a late add to Team OHL in the first Subway Super
Series game, playing on the 4th line and earning 4 PIM. Jim Benning is keeping his eyes on
Cassels and the
pipeline. Flashback to Tony-G in
2013 giving some early
optimism to Cassels.
Jared McCann was out a few more games with his viral
infection but he returned to play one game with the Soo this week, scoring
an assist. McCann played in the second OHL
Subway Super Series game on the second line playing with Josh
Ho-Sang and earned a +1. Apparently,
Nucks Misconduct is still a thing and they
like McCann (and others).
Jordan Subban played in 3 games scoring 1 goal
and 1 assist earning a +1 and 2 PIM.
Subban is 20th in league scoring and 1st of all
defencemen (by a margin of 3 points).
Subban played in the second OHL Subway Super Series game on the second
defence pairing with Darnell Nurse.
Evan McEneny played in 2 games earning a +2.
Kyle Petit played in 3 games earning a +2.
Miles Liberati played in 3 games earning a -1
and 4 PIM.

Western Hockey League

Name	Pos	DOB	AGE	Team	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	PIM
Jake Virtanen	LW	1996-08-17	18	Calgary	11	3	7	10	0.91	-2	16
Anton Cederholm	D	1995-02-21	19	Portland	21	4	2	6	0.30	-7	28
MacKenze Stewart	D	1995-08-10	19	Prince Albert	20	2	3	5	0.25	-7	37

Jake Virtanen played in 2 games scoring a goal
and earning 8 PIM. Some Virtanen Helmet
Cam action during the Super Series. Vancouver could have had Nylander, but instead they grabbed the 17 year-old local boy with a major injury… should we be worried yet? (The answer is no, by the way)
McKenze Stewart played in 3 games earning a -3
and 10 PIM. Stewart got in a fight
(above) and received an automatic one
game suspension for a staged fight.
Anton Cederholm played in 3 games scoring 1
assist and earning 2 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	7	3	6	9	1.29	6	17	2.43	17.65%	0
Ben Hutton	D	1993-04-20	21	Hockey East / Maine	10	1	3	4	0.40	-3	26	2.60	3.85%	2
Mike Williamson	D	1993-09-05	21	Big 10 / Penn State	4	0	1	1	0.25	-1	7	1.75	0.00%	6
Joseph LaBate	F	1993-04-16	21	Big 10 / Wisconsin	6	0	1	1	0.17	-6	16	2.67	0.00%	10
Matthew Beattie	F	1992-12-14	21	ECAC / Yale	6	0	0	0	0.00	0	5	0.83	0.00%	2

Harvard played three games this past week winning 6-2 vs Brown, losing 1-2 to Yale and then winning 2-0 @ Dartmouth. The next week sees the Crimson Tide play Bentley on the 21st and then Boston University on the 25th. Patrick McNally continues to be the best producing NCAA prospect in Vancouver’s system, having played 3 games this week, scoring 1 goal and 3 assists along with 6 SOG.
The University of Maine lost against Boston
University this week with a score of 3-1.
Maine plays at Boston U on the 21st and then Boston College
on the 22nd. Ben Hutton played in
this game earning an assist along with a -1 and 0 SOG.
Penn State played a pair of games this weekend
at UMass Lowell losing 5-3 and winning 4-1.
This week sees the Nittany Lions playing at Michigan on Friday and
Saturday. Mike Williamson played in one game and blocked a shot.
The University of Wisconsin and Joe LaBate had the week off and
will be in Colorado this weekend playing Colorado College Friday and Denver on
Saturday.
Yale won its pair of games this weekend going
4-1 against Dartmouth and 2-1 against Harvard.
This weekend has the Bulldogs playing at Cornell and at Colgate. Matt Beattie played in 2 games going 0 for 1 in
the face-off dot and earning a +1.

Name	Pos	DOB	Age	School	GP	Assists	Mins	GA	GAA	Record	Svs	Sv%
Thatcher Demko	G	1995-12-08	18	H-East / Boston College	9	1	542	19	2.10	5-4-0	229	92.34%

Boston College played 1 game this week winning
3-2 at Michigan State and this weekend will be playing against Massachusetts
and Maine. Demko made 31 of 33 saves
bringing his Sv% up to .923 on the year, good for T-27th out of 38 qualified NCAA goaltenders.

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	19	2	2	4	0.21	5	24	1.26	8.33%	2	18:42
Nikita Tryamkin	D	1994-08-04	20	KHL / Avtomobilist	28	0	2	2	0.07	-2	36	1.29	0.00%	17	16:11

Nikita Tryamkin played in 2 games with his ice
time continuing to slightly increase.
Gustav Forsling played 1 game earning 1 shot on
goal and saw his ice time slightly decrease.

ECHL

ECHL	Pos	DOB	AGE	Team	GP	G	A	P	PPG	+/-	SOG	S/G	Sh%	PIM
Curtis Valk	C	1993-02-08	21	K-Wings	9	4	8	12	1.33	3	23	2.56	17.39%	4
Dane Fox	F	1993-10-13	21	K-Wings	10	3	4	7	0.70	1	17	1.70	17.65%	13
Ludwig Blomstrand	LW	1993-03-08	21	K-Wings	7	4	4	8	1.14	2	16	2.29	25.00%	2
Alex Mallet	F	1992-05-22	22	K-Wings	12	3	6	9	0.75	1	20	1.67	15.00%	15
Jeremie Blain	D	1992-03-19	22	K-Wings	7	1	1	2	0.29	-7	17	2.43	5.88%	2

Kalamazoo has been struggling lately (I credit
the lack of Valk) and are currently sitting at 3rd in their division
and 6th in the conference.
The KWings lost 3-4 in the SO to Reading on Friday and then 1-3 on
Saturday. The Wings play on Friday @
Fort Wayne and then on Saturday @ Cincinatti.
Dane Fox played in two games earning 3 SOG and a
-1.
Ludwig Blomstrand has been hurt and did not play
this week.
Alexandre Mallet played in 2 games earning 1
assist off 3 SOG with 2 PIM.
Jeremie Blain has been up and down to Utica a
few times without playing, but so far in the ECHL he has played 7 games scoring
1 goal and 1 assist off of 17 shots earning a time low -7 and has 2 PIM.
Other Comets/Canucks related K-Wings and their
points so far are: Guimond (12 – leads the team in points, as a defencemen),
Kattelus (9), Longpre (9), Scheidl (7), Kaunisto (4), Lafranchise (3) (Current
in Utica) and Negrin (3) (Current in Utica).

Name	Position	DOB	Age	Team	GP	Mins	GA	GAA	Record	Svs	Sv%	SO
Joe Cannata	G	1990-01-02	24	Ontario Reign	8	482	15	1.87	4-3-0-1	191	92.72%	1

Cannata played in 2 games this week making 21 of
23 saves and 17 of 18 saves bringing him up to a .927 Sv% on the year.

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