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Blackfish: CanucksArmy Prospect Report – October 25, 2018
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Oct 25, 2018, 15:00 EDTUpdated: Oct 25, 2018, 14:28 EDT
Been an interesting week for Canucks prospects.
This past weekend, aside from injuries, was the first time that all of the prospects were in action as the NCAA season finally got into full swing.
With that – we are back with everyone’s favourite prospect report.

Canada

WHL

  • Jett Woo was held off the scoresheet this past week in the three Moose Jaw Warriors games. He continues to display his physical play as a mainstay in their top four. You can see Woo represent Team WHL in the Canada/Russia series on Nov. 5 in Kamloops and Nov 6 in Langley.

OHL

  • Matt Brassard continues to put up the points with two assists in two games over the past seven days.
  • Michael Dipietro’s appeared in two games over the past week and has got his GAA below 3.00. He continues to sit tied with Tom McCollum for the most shutouts in an OHL career.

United States

USHL

  • Matthew Thiessen only dressed for one game this past week, a 4-3 shootout loss to Youngstown. He is now 4-1-2 with Dubuque.

NCAA

  • Tyler Madden continues his fantastic start to his NCAA career, picking up one goal and one assist in the first game again Union this past weekend. He was held off the scoresheet in their rematch the following day. He is on Northeastern’s first line and first PP unit.
  • Quinn Hughes had himself a noticeable weekend with one goal and two assists over the two games against Western Michigan this past weekend.
  • William Lockwood scored one goal over those same two games.
  • Jack Rathbone played a exhibition contest against the USNDTP on October 20th. He was noticeable throughout the contest on the left side of the 2nd pairing. It appears that Harvard will be running a 5 ‘veteran’ and Rathbone defence this season.

Europe

Russia

  • Artyom Manukyan continues to sit at two goals and five assists this season. He was unable to register a point in the four games he dressed for. After being a healthy scratch last week, he is back to the second role that we saw him in before.
  • Nikita Tryamkin appeared in three games (including today) and was held off the scoresheet in all of them. Stephan Roget wrote about his season earlier this week.
  • Dmitry Zhukenov has been loaned (aka signed) by HC Dynamo Pardubice in the Czech ExtraLiga. He is still part of Avangards’ organization in the KHL but ideally he will finally get to play some games.

Finland

  • Toni Utunen appeared in three games for Tappara and was once again held off the score-sheet. He will likely soon head off to some international tournaments in preparation for the WJHC. There is still a very good chance he represents Finland at the World Juniors.

Sweden

  • Kristoffer Gunnarsson scored a goal! It was a nice one for someone who hadn’t registered a point in 77 SHL games before that:

AHL

  • Alex Biega and Guillaume Brisebois were recalled earlier today.
  • Adam Gaudette and Darren Archibald are also up with the Canucks
  • Defenceman Jagger Dirk was recalled earlier today.
  • Kole Lind, Ashton Sautner, Jalen Chatfield, Brendan Gaunce, Wacey Hamilton, and Reid Boucher are at various points in injury recovery.
  • As always Comets Cory has you covered for everything Comets – check them out here.
  • Thatcher Demko is still recovering from the concussion suffered in training camp.

ECHL

  • At this moment, the Canucks have no prospects in the ECHL.