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Canucks Army Prospect Report – April 10th, 2015
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Josh W
By Josh W
Apr 10, 2015, 11:00 EDTUpdated:
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Courtesy: Sarah Hobday
We are back with another edition
of the Canucks Weekly Prospect Report, where I dig into all the latest stats,
rumours, gossip, news, achievements, and even made up stories from around the
different junior hockey leagues. We look into the play of all (non-AHL) Canucks prospects from the CHL, NCAA, Europe, and
even the ECHL.
Without further ado, continue
past the jump to see what went down!

Canadian
Hockey League

NamePosDOBAgeTeamGPGAPPPG +/-PIMNHLe
Cole Cassels
C
1995-05-04
19
Oshawa
5
1
7
8
1.60
3
2
39
Jared McCann
C
1996-05-31
18
Sault Ste. Marie
5
1
6
7
1.40
3
0
34
Jake Virtanen
LW
1996-08-17
18
Calgary
7
0
7
7
1.00
0
14
21
Jordan Subban
D
1995-03-15
20
Belleville
4
3
0
3
0.75
-6
2
18
Evan McEneny
D
1994-05-22
20
Kingston
4
1
1
2
0.50
-2
0
12
Ashton Sautner
D
1994-05-27
20
Edmonton
5
0
1
1
0.20
-5
6
4
Miles Liberati
D
1995-06-21
19
North Bay
4
0
2
2
0.50
2
14
12
Kyle Pettit
C
1996-01-18
19
Erie
0
0
0
0
0.00
0
0
0
Anton Cederholm
D
1995-02-21
20
Portland
6
0
0
0
0.00
4
4
0
MacKenze Stewart
D
1995-08-10
19
Prince Albert
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
  • Tenacious C Cole Cassels played in 2 games this week scoring 3 assists, earning a +2 and 2 PIMs.  Oshawa beat Peterborough in 5 games and will
    now face the Niagara Ice Dogs in round 2.
  • Jared “it
    is what it is” McCann played in 2 games with the Soo this week scoring 1
    assist, earning a -1.  The Soo beat
    Saginaw in 4 games and will now face the Guelph Storm in the second round. 
  • Showtime Virtanen
    scored 7 assists in 7 games this week, earning  a +4 and 10 PIMs.  Calgary beat Kootenay in 7 games and will
    face the real good Medicine Hat Tigers in the second round.
  • Jordan
    Subban scored 2 goals in 2 games this week but earned a -3 and 2 PIMs.  Belleville was eliminated from the OHL
    Playoffs and     Subban Signing Watch is now on. 
    Subban managed to score the last Belleville goal (and 3 of the 7 Bulls playoff goals) in the last Belleville
    game ever.
  • Evan
    McEneny skated in 1 game this week and scored 1 assist.  Kingston was eliminated by North Bay and
    McEneny is done in the OHL for good.  He
    played in one AHL game last season so look for him to join the Comets.
  • Ashton
    Sautner was a -2 in the last Edmonton Game of the year as they were eliminated
    by the Brandon Wheat Kings.      Sautner was signed to an AHL PTO and
    will join the Utica Comets for the rest of the year    .  Don’t
    expect him to see much AHL ice time though.
  • In the one
    North Bay game this week Miles Liberati earned 7 PIMs.  North Bay will face Barrie in the second
    round of the playoffs.
  • Kyle Pettit
    has not yet returned from his injury. 
    Erie will face London in the second round of the playoffs for the right
    to be beat down by the Soo.  He still has a cast on his hand.
  • Anton Cederholm
    played in 3 games this week and earned a +3. 
    Portland will face Everett in the second round of the playoffs.
There’s now 6 Canucks prospects remaining in the CHL playoffs.

    NCAA

    NamePosDOBAGESchoolGPGAPPPG +/-SS/GSh%NHLe
    Patrick McNally
    D
    1991-12-04
    23
    ECAC / Harvard
    21
    6
    15
    21
    1.00
    16
    54
    2.57
    11.11%
    34
    Ben Hutton
    D
    1993-04-20
    21
    Hockey East / Maine
    39
    9
    12
    21
    0.54
    -15
    115
    2.95
    7.83%
    18
    Joseph LaBate
    F
    1993-04-16
    21
    Big 10 / Wisconsin
    35
    6
    12
    18
    0.51
    -17
    100
    2.86
    6.00%
    17
    Matthew Beattie
    F
    1992-12-14
    22
    ECAC / Yale
    16
    0
    3
    3
    0.19
    5
    18
    1.13
    0.00%
    6
    Mike Williamson
    D
    1993-09-05
    21
    Big 10 / Penn State
    16
    1
    1
    2
    0.13
    -1
    17
    1.06
    5.88%
    4
    All NCAA
    prospects are finished for the year. 
    LaBate has joined Utica but has not yet played.  No word on what is going to happen with
    Patrick McNally.

    ECHL

    ECHLPosDOBAGETeamGPGAPPPG +/-SOGS/GSh%PIM
    Curtis Valk
    C
    1993-02-08
    22
    Kalamzoo Wings
    31
    11
    19
    30
    0.97
    8
    78
    2.52
    14.10%
    12
    Ludwig Blomstrand
    LW
    1993-03-08
    22
    Kalamzoo Wings
    52
    33
    12
    45
    0.87
    -6
    158
    3.04
    20.89%
    30
    Dane Fox
    F
    1993-10-13
    21
    Kalamzoo Wings
    67
    26
    15
    41
    0.61
    -6
    188
    2.81
    13.83%
    88
    Jeremie Blain
    D
    1992-03-19
    23
    Kalamzoo Wings
    40
    5
    22
    27
    0.68
    8
    82
    2.05
    6.10%
    38
    • In the last week
      Ludwig Blomstrand scored 3 goals and 1 assist, earning a +3, 7 shots on goal
      and 2 PIMs.
    • Dane Fox played
      in 3 games scoring 2 goals, 1 assist, earning a +3, 8 shots on goal and 4 PIMs.
    • Jeremie Blain
      skated in 1 goal, 2 assists, earned a +4, and 6 shots on goal.
    • Patrick Kennedy
      scored 1 goal this week with a -3, and 2 shots on goal.  He also earned 4 PIMs.
    • Kane “The Franchise”
      Lafranchise scored 1 assist in 3 games, earned a +2 and found 10 shots on goal.
    • Mitch Holmberg
      earned a -3 and 2 PIMs in 2 games with Elmira this week.
    As usual, our
    lovely Kwings Insiderrr     Sarah Hobday sent us scouting notes on Kalamazoo this week and
    here’s what she had to say:
    My thoughts/notes on the weekend games:
    • In Friday’s game the Canucks prospects were the only positive in this mostly poor team effort.
    • Lafranchise and Blain were paired on D and were only only on the ice
      for 1 of Toledo’s 6 goals on Friday. They both played solid all weekend.
      Though Blain was occasionally caught out of position.
    • Blomstrand and Fox scored in the 3rd period Friday as they both stepped up their game to try to spark the team to a comeback.
    • Blomstrand was targeted heavily by the Toledo defensemen on Friday to
      limit his scoring chances. He remained smart and never retaliated on
      cheap shots by the other team.
    • Fox played much
      better this weekend then when I last saw him. I have really enjoyed
      watching his growth as a player throughout this season.
    • I cannot say enough good things about Blomstrand. He had another great
      game on Saturday and scored 2 more goals. He now has 33 goals for the
      season – including 22 goals in his last 26 games. He is on the top power
      play and penalty kill units.
    • Kennedy was relatively quiet all weekend. Solid play but nothing stood out.

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