Abbotsford Canucks Thread | Prospects Starting to Heat Up

[Blue and Green]

They are both on the right track, it's hard to differentiate the two. If there were a callup and one of them had to play NHL minutes right now I'd pick Kudryavtsev. To me, he's the much calmer out of the two. Pettersson can have his little brain farts. Kudryavtsev is much more likely to give you a steady 14 minutes with minimal adventures at this moment, in my opinion.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if next year both of them are taking turns rotating in and out of the Canucks lineup playing some limited minutes. Much like what they are doing to the forwards this season.

I'd probably lean slightly toward Kudryavtsev, too, but the organization seems to favour Pettersson.

 

[arttk]

I'd probably lean slightly toward Kudryavtsev, too, but the organization seems to favour Pettersson.

Seems like KK is better at handling the puck, something we need more.

 

[Blue and Green]

Seems like KK is better at handling the puck, something we need more.

Yes, he is definitely better with the puck. Pettersson's advantage is size.

 

[VanJack]

A couple of ugly losses back-to-back in San Jose to end a long road trip. Final tonight was 7-4.

Wasn't able to listen to any part of the game, but sounds like Tolopilo had a tough night. They're still giving up too many goals......but that may be the by-product of a young blueline.

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

Okay, so only one undisciplined penalty by Klimovich. It's funny, someone had a posted a video of the game in 1991 where Pat Elynuik took a highsticking penalty that wasn't noticed by the referee but the linesman called it once play had stopped. I remembered that, and checked back through the preceding minute of play before Klimovich's 4-minute highsticking penalty. It was actually on a good backchecking effort by Klimovich as three San Jose players broke in; he hustled back and dove to thwart a pass attempt but then his stick just incidentally flew up when he hit the ice and caught the San Jose player in the face. Announcer didn't know what had happened, either.

As Bik Nizzar would say, we are pro-accountability here. I think he may have Satiar Shah using that too.