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Blackfish: Canucks Army Weekly Prospect Report – March 24th, 2016
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Mar 24, 2016, 17:00 EDTUpdated:
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The NCAA have finished their conference playoffs and the regionals start tomorrow!
The CHL playoffs start tonight!
The Canucks are in a top four draft spot!
So, as always, there is tonnes to digest in this week’s Blackfish – so pitter patter, let’s get at er!

CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Name
Pos
Age
League
Team
GP
G
A
P
P/GP
+/-
PIM
SOG
Sh%
SOG/GP
Dmitry Zhukenov
C
18.365
QMJHL
Chicoutimi
64
15
42
57
0.89
-2
58
56
26.8%
0.88
Carl Neill
D
19.260
QMJHL
Carl Neill
64
8
42
50
0.78
-19
63
86
9.3%
1.34
Tate Olson
D
19.002
WHL
Prince George
65
9
38
47
0.72
+16
90
Guillaume Brisebois
D
18.245
QMJHL
Acadie-Bathurst
52
10
16
26
0.50
-13
28
67
14.9%
1.29
Kyle Pettit
C
20.064
OHL
Erie
58
10
11
21
0.36
+12
14
Mackenze Stewart
LW
20.226
WHL
Tri-City
36
5
6
11
0.31
47
2
  • Dmitry Zhukenov played two games this week – he had 3 assists, +2 & 3 SOG (Same as last week – Shoot more kid!)
  • Carl Neill  played two games this week – he ended the week with one assist, -2 and 7 SOG.
  • Tate Olson was held pointless in his only contest this week – he was -1 and had 2 PIM
  • Kyle Pettit played three games this week – he had 1 goal, was +3 and had 4 SOG
  • Guillaume Brisebois is currently injured – still unable to determine injury, hopefully it is not another concussion like he suffered earlier this season
  • Mackenze Stewart played two games this week – he ended with one goal. Since Tri-City did not make the playoffs, his WHL season is over. No word yet on him going to the ECHL or AHL.
  • In case you missed it, here is a primer for the Canucks prospects in the CHL playoffs.

NCAA

Name
Pos
Age
League
Team
GP
G
A
P
P/GP
+/-
PIM
SOG
Sh%
SOG/GP
Brock Boeser
RW
19.027
NCAA-NCHC
North Dakota
38
25
26
51
1.34
+35
0
119
21.0%
3.13
Adam Gaudette
C
19.166
NCAA-HE
Northeastern
40
12
18
30
0.75
+2
0
93
12.9%
2.33
  • Boeser played two games this past weekend – he had 3 assists. He won the NCHC Rookie of the Year and NCHC Three stars award on Thursday night. He is now on a 9 game point streak. North Dakota will face Northeastern in the Mid-West NCAA regionals.
  • Northeastern won the Hockey East Championship! Gaudette had a goal and an assist in the Semi-finals against Boston College, and then scored in the finals. As mentioned, Northeastern will face North Dakota on Friday in the Mid-West Semi-Finals.
NamePosDOBAGETeamGPMinsGASASVSv%GAARecordSO
Thatcher Demko
G
95-12-08
20
Boston College
35
2183
68
1048
980
0.935
1.87
25-7-4
10
  • Thatcher Demko and Boston College lost 5-4 in the Hockey East Semi-finals to Northeastern. Demko was very good, but just couldn’t seem to make the next save. He did make this beauty of a save:

EUROPE

Name
Pos
Age
League
Team
GP
G
A
P
P/GP
+/-
PIM
SOG
Sh%
SOG/GP
Anton Rödin
LW
25.122
SHL
Brynäs
33
16
21
37
1.12
7
18
91
17.6%
2.76
Nikita Tryamkin
D
21.206
KHL
Avtomobilist
53
4
7
11
0.21
7
4
73
5.5%
1.38
Lukas Jasek
RW
18.208
ELJ
Trinec U20
5
4
5
9
1.80
8
6
15
26.7%
3.00
  • Rodin was signed to a one year contract (for next season) by the Canucks this week. So he obviously won’t be back on Blackfish next year
  • Same could likely be said about Tryamkin – he likely won’t be making any more appearances here
  • Lukas Jasek played three playoff games for Trinec Junior team – he had 2 goals and 3 assists in 3 games. The best of five series against Mountfield HK U21 is tied at two games each with this deciding game tomorrow night.

AHL

Name
Pos
Age
League
Team
GP
G
A
P
P/GP
+/-
PIM
SOG
Sh%
SOG/GP
Alexandre Grenier
RW
24.200
AHL
Utica
57
13
24
37
0.65
0
41
128
10.2%
2.25
Brendan Gaunce
LW
22.364
AHL
Utica
43
15
18
33
0.77
+9
16
102
14.7%
2.37
Jordan Subban
D
21.020
AHL
Utica
55
10
23
33
0.60
-1
34
109
9.2%
1.98
Mike Zalewski
C
23.217
AHL
Utica
50
13
14
27
0.54
+11
32
100
13.0%
2.00
Alex Friesen
C
25.053
AHL
Utica
53
9
15
24
0.45
+3
63
111
8.1%
2.09
Andrey Pedan
D
22.263
AHL
Utica
42
6
14
20
0.48
+19
83
99
6.1%
2.36
Ronalds Kenins
LW
25.024
AHL
Utica
30
3
15
18
0.60
0
34
55
5.5%
1.83
Linden Vey
C
24.250
AHL
Utica
26
3
12
15
0.58
-5
8
43
7.0%
1.65
Ashton Sautner
D
21.301
AHL
Utica
38
4
6
10
0.26
-2
10
44
9.1%
1.16
Cole Cassels
RW
20.324
AHL
Utica
55
2
4
6
0.11
-14
20
38
5.3%
0.69
  • Kellan Lain (now injured), William Wrenn, Evan Rankin, and Milos Bubela all signed PTO’s with the Comets this week.
  • Mike Zalewski, Jon Landry, Brandon Prust, Kellan Lain, Jon Negrin, Darren Archibald and Wacey Hamilton on the injured list.
  • Given the injured list – it is truly amazing that Curtis Valk, Ludwig Blomstrand or Even McEneny hasn’t at least been recalled to the AHL to get a ‘look’
  • As we all know, Andrey Pedan, Chris Higgins, Alexandre Grenier, Brendan Gaunce, Linden Vey, Yannick Weber and Alex Biega are up with the Canucks. 
  • Twitterless Jeremy Davis is here with this week’s Utica Comet Weekly

    • ECHL

    Name
    Pos
    Age
    League
    Team
    GP
    G
    A
    P
    P/GP
    +/-
    PIM
    SOG
    Sh%
    SOG/GP
    Ludwig Blomstrand
    LW
    23.015
    ECHL
    Kalamazoo
    62
    23
    29
    52
    0.84
    -17
    38
    170
    13.5%
    2.74
    Curtis Valk
    C
    23.043
    ECHL
    Kalamazoo
    28
    15
    16
    31
    1.11
    +4
    14
    73
    20.5%
    2.61
    Evan McEneny
    D
    21.305
    ECHL
    Kalamazoo
    27
    0
    20
    20
    0.74
    +12
    4
    38
    0.0%
    1.41
    Anton Cederholm
    D
    21.030
    ECHL
    Kalamazoo
    60
    2
    12
    14
    0.23
    +11
    55
    71
    2.8%
    1.18
    • Ludwig Blomstrand had two goals and two assists in three games this week – he had 9 SOG and was +3. He has now passed Dane Fox for leading scorer.
    • Curtis Valk had two goals and two assists in the three games this week for Kalamazoo – he had 9 SOG and was +5. He remains the only Wing to be above a PPG, yet still doesn’t get a recall to Utica.
    • Anton Cederholm was held pointless this week – he was +2, with 4 SOG and 6 PIM
    • Even McEneny had three assists over the three games this week.
    NamePosDOBAGETeamGPMinutesGASASVSV%GAARecordSO
    Clay Witt
    G
    91-08-24
    24
    Kalamazoo
    11
    492
    33
    266
    233
    0.876
    4.02
    1-7-0
    0
    • Clay Witt did not play any games this week

    Schedule

    For the NCAA prospects, they will need to win on Friday to play on Saturday – so one of Boeser or Gaudette will make the Mid-West Finals.
    Have a good weekend!

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