Rank Canucks' prospects

[MS]

It's been 7 games. That's not a year i don't think. I'll wait and judge what he did this year, at the end of the year. Longshot prospect anyhow, but 7 games doesn't erase everything else he's done to this point in his career.

If he was 21, sure, but he’s 25 before the season is out. If he’s a prospect he needs to dominate *now*.

 

[Blue and Green]

If he was 21, sure, but he’s 25 before the season is out. If he’s a prospect he needs to dominate *now*.

Weird start for Tolopilo:

Games 1-3: Strong
Game 4: Mediocre
Game 5: Very Bad (worst that I've ever seen him play)
Game 6: Bad
Game 7: Mediocre

He came out of the gate well, and then suddenly a four-game stretch that was clearly worse than any four-game stretch from all of last season. I have no idea what happened.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

If he was 21, sure, but he’s 25 before the season is out. If he’s a prospect he needs to dominate *now*.

He's a goalie. I hear they're voodoo. Jacob Markstrom was on nhl waivers at 25, and a vezina candidate at 29. You are right that if the rest of this year goes like the last month or so his NA adventure is probably over.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

So that's four draft picks flushed out the door for two months of Zadorov and Lindholm. Thus in the 2024 entry draft the Canucks were without a first, a second (previously traded); a fourth and a fifth. It's fair to speculate how many of those picks might have eventually have shown up on the list of 'top Canuck prospects'.

Not really.

The only pick of real consequence is our 1st. The rest are a collection of darts on a blackboard. Outside the first round, very few picks ever produce impact players, especially 3rd round and below. Of course, it happens. Practically every team has a diamond in the rough, so to speak. But you can't be afraid to make moves based on hope and pray you'll find said diamond.

Another factor to is we had no way of knowing Demko would go down after one game and we'd lose Boeser for game 7. That pretty heavily impacted what could have likely been a longer playoff run.

 

[ChilliBilly]

Not really.

The only pick of real consequence is our 1st. The rest are a collection of darts on a blackboard. Outside the first round, very few picks ever produce impact players, especially 3rd round and below. Of course, it happens. Practically every team has a diamond in the rough, so to speak. But you can't be afraid to make moves based on hope and pray you'll find said diamond.

Another factor to is we had no way of knowing Demko would go down after one game and we'd lose Boeser for game 7. That pretty heavily impacted what could have likely been a longer playoff run.

I see it the opposite way. You only find diamonds in the rough if you have enough "rough" to look for them in. In other words, you need to have a decent collection of picks to have some pan out. Our 1st round picks have been a real mish-mash since Gillis. Wins - Horvat, Hughes, Pettersson, Boesser. Bad - Virtanen, Juolevi. Meh - Podkolzin (pretty disappointing). Looking promising - Willander and Lekkerimaki. 2020 draft - garnered JTM. 2021 draft- perhaps Jimbo's biggest blunder - a 1st 2nd and 3rd to acquire a player that will be costing us for another 3 years just to dump some contracts that would be expiring in a year.

Anyhow, we were contender for the first time in a decade last year. Not enough track history to justify going all in, IMHO.

 

[VanJack]

Giving Allvin the benefit of the doubt, they traded just about every pick they had from rounds 1-4 in the 2024 entry draft.

That tells me they might not have been too enamored with the entire draft, once you got past the top-10 players or so. And the players they did pick like Fernstrom, Romani and Pattersson might have been 'flyers; who fell because they had inconsistent seasons or were in their second year of draft eligibility.

So upon reflection, I suppose that in some years, sacrificing picks at the TDL can be justified based on the strength and depth of the entry draft. For the Canucks sake, I hope 2024 was one of those drafts.