Exactly the kind of value picks you're looking for.....Patterson and Romani obviously have a few holes in their games---they'd have been drafted higher if they didn't.We haven’t drafted too many people out of the OHL lately - now two picks in the same draft.
Can’t wait to learn more about them.
Pettersson, Pettersson, Pattersson
Actually our record with forwards in the OHL has been pretty good over the years. Hodgson would have been pretty good if not for his medical issues, Horvat is very good, McCann is as well, Gaunce and Gadjovich are fringe NHLers but still getting contracts year after year. The rest are pretty much Meh but that’s still a pretty good track record especially considering the limited number of picks we’ve spent there.Exactly the kind of value picks you're looking for.....Patterson and Romani obviously have a few holes in their games---they'd have been drafted higher if they didn't.
But you start with the basics of skating, shooting and offensive awareness. Everything else you can work with. That's what 'player development' is all about once they're in your system and working with coaches like the Sedins.
And the fact is that in the last half of the OHL season, these two kids were two of the most dangerous offensive players in the league. And one of them--Patterson--is a center to boot.
For the first time in years I have some faith that the Canucks scouting staff can actually pick players from the CHL who have some serious upside. I'm guessing that both these kids will be at development camp next week--and Canuck fans can get an up-close viewing.
Like Alcos was a CHL rookie last year and once he settled in had 51 points in his last 48 games with a ton of ES production.
Getting a C with plus skating and ok size at this point of the draft with that level of production seems like a good bet.
Worth noting that his FO numbers would indicate he split the season between wing and C.
Elite prospect has him as a winger and one of he articles I read on him said he spent most the year on the wing. Figured that was worth reflecting in the thread title.