Intriguing goalie prospect about to enter our system. Didn't play for a great team, but sure had some great games.
Confirmed with Link: Canucks sign G Aku Koskenvuo to 2-Year ELC
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Intriguing goalie prospect about to enter our system. Didn't play for a great team, but sure had some great games.
Hansen
tyler motte simp
He totally fell off my radar, it seems he had an uptick last two years? Goalies development trajectories might as well be quantum physics to me
We do desperately need something good coming down the pipe in net
We do desperately need something good coming down the pipe in net
most important question, can he suit up this week.
Baby Pettersson
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Another big solid thick girthy goalie and another Finn for Marko Torenius and Lankinen to work with. Could be a good one.
Hansen
tyler motte simp
This is Torenius' first real project IMO. Ian Clarke has left the building by all accounts, Lankinen was a great find but already established.
Who the hell knows anything definitive with goalies. Especially young goalies. His pretty big and has shown flashes of strong potential according to those that have watched him.
This puts the Canucks at 6 goalies under contract for next season and Tolopilo as an RFA.
This puts the Canucks at 6 goalies under contract for next season and Tolopilo as an RFA.
Lemmiwinks
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Ty Young is the goalie prospect I’m most excited about but Aku is also worth a contract. Ya never know with these guys.
Apparently Koskenuvo was one of Ian Clark's 'finds', and was instrumental in the Canucks drafting him.
Kind of underwhelming numbers in the NCAA and even lost the starting job at one point. But as others have pointed, the Harvard teams he played on really weren't very good.
So the Canucks have a lot of 'quantity' in their goalie pipeline. But remains to be seen how much 'quality' is there.
Kind of underwhelming numbers in the NCAA and even lost the starting job at one point. But as others have pointed, the Harvard teams he played on really weren't very good.
So the Canucks have a lot of 'quantity' in their goalie pipeline. But remains to be seen how much 'quality' is there.
Flik
Canucks fan for life
The cupboard is really bare in terms of a younger quality goalie within the organization that has legit upside to be even a reliable backup.
Silovs is done after this season. He salvaged last season with what he did in the playoffs but before that last season wasn’t even as good as the season before.
Tolopilo has been equally inconsistent and turns 25 next month. He has size and not much else.
Ty Young has put up some good numbers as a rookie pro. Let’s hope he can continue to develop.
I’ve never seen Koskenvuo play but just assumed he was a missed pick as he doesn’t appear to have developed much over his 3 seasons, but I trust our scouts see something in him and with the cupboard so bare…
Silovs is done after this season. He salvaged last season with what he did in the playoffs but before that last season wasn’t even as good as the season before.
Tolopilo has been equally inconsistent and turns 25 next month. He has size and not much else.
Ty Young has put up some good numbers as a rookie pro. Let’s hope he can continue to develop.
I’ve never seen Koskenvuo play but just assumed he was a missed pick as he doesn’t appear to have developed much over his 3 seasons, but I trust our scouts see something in him and with the cupboard so bare…
I figured he was sure to finish his 4th season at Harvard and get his degree. This wasn’t on my radar at all.
I don’t have much of a read on him as a prospect at all. Making the 2023 Finland WJC team : good. Getting outplayed by his undrafted freshman backup last year : less good.
I don’t have much of a read on him as a prospect at all. Making the 2023 Finland WJC team : good. Getting outplayed by his undrafted freshman backup last year : less good.
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Baby Pettersson
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Until our goaltending shows it's no longer a strength then I still believe we have one of the better goal tender systems in the league.
My guess right now is that with none of Silovs, Tolopilo or Patera knocking their socks off, that the Canucks view Young as their best up and coming prospect, and hope that Koskenvuo might translate well to the pro game, too.
Silovs is waivers eligible next season right? I can’t forsee the team signing another Patera or Lankinen type unless Demko isn’t ready to go or traded.
Silovs is the wildcard. If Lankinen and Demko are the goaltending duo with the big club then does Silovs pass through waivers? If he does there’s a bit of a log jam if Topilo signs (albeit it is manageable). If he doesn’t and there’s no Topilo we don’t have much experience in Abbotsford.
Silovs is the wildcard. If Lankinen and Demko are the goaltending duo with the big club then does Silovs pass through waivers? If he does there’s a bit of a log jam if Topilo signs (albeit it is manageable). If he doesn’t and there’s no Topilo we don’t have much experience in Abbotsford.
Bitz and Bites
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I'm not sure that the odd man out in Abbotsford might be Tolopilo, rather than Arty. They still have Jiri Patera listed on the roster, and he's hardly even played this year. But somewhat regrettably, he's signed through the end of the next season, while Tolopilo is an impending RFA.
But with Patera, Young, Silovs and now Koskenuvo under contract--there's too many goalies for too few spots.
Well Puckpedia has Jiri Patera listed as a $775,000 contract expiring at the end of the 2025-26 season.
Bitz and Bites
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Might be both Tolopilo and Silovs out next year with Patera and Young in Abby and Koskenuvo in the Zoo to get maximum playing time. That’s assuming that Demko is good to go for the start of next season.
