Looks like there is a chance Willander can reach 20 points with 1 more game remaining in schedule. Just need a point. His strong production is just gravy on top.
Prospect Info: The 2023-2024 Prospects Thread Pt. 3
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I look at Klimovich and then I look at Stankoven and how much I wanted him at that spot at the draft… I feel vindicated and disheartened at the same time.
The cow shit smell encourages players to improve so they can get out of the AHL.
Yep.....vintage Benning Canucks.....Stankoven was born and raised in Kamloops, and spent his entire WHL career with his home-town Blazers.
The last time I looked, Kamloops was three and half hours up Highway One.....instead the Canucks draft a guy from Belarus, based on nothing more than scoring a lot of garbage goals for an overmatched Belarus team in the World Jr. Hockey championships.
It's the reason Dallas is where they're at; and where the Canucks were at under the previous regime.
Lets take a look back at our 2021 Draft Thread full of an insane amount of things that A) were bang on assessments and B) foreshadowed the pain yet to endure:
Before our pick:
Immediately after the pick:
A Swing and a Miss, as turns out we could draft better than the professionals:
Then the discussion continues with even more correct assessments:
Called my shot and looking like we'll have two 07' calibre drafts 2020/2021:
More correct predictions:
All in all we had seen enough of Jim and John to know that things were never going to be better and they had just made the worst trade in the salary cap era. Everyone is just in a totally justified pit of despair in this thread its actually quite dark to look back on. If only we know there was still 6 months of Benning.
I sympathize with posters who want to look back in lament and some of the lame-brained picks from the previous regime. But what's the point of torturing yourself?
That was then, and this is now. Allvin and Rutherford won't always make the right picks. Nobody does. But I have complete confidence they won't outright 'whiff' as often as the last guys in the executive suite.
That was then, and this is now. Allvin and Rutherford won't always make the right picks. Nobody does. But I have complete confidence they won't outright 'whiff' as often as the last guys in the executive suite.
So much vindication and yet also so much pain.
I legitimately hate being correct about this shit. All of it just completely avoidable and we could be in such a better position to be a juggernaut by just firing these clowns a year sooner.
Wow someone should give this MS guy a scouting job
It really is wild how much damage was done to this organization by Aquillini sitting on his hands for year and letting Jim make desperation moves when the writing was already on the wall. f*** that guy.
But hindsight
Yeah but we got out of Eriksson Beagle and Roussells contracts that all you Benning haters whined about!
And for the record, I don't think I actually said anything crazy smart or insightful there. It's just that what was happening was *so bad* and so obviously bad that literally anything looks brilliant by comparison.
It's less torture and more continuing to show the minority that want to praise Benning for "building this team" that anything he built he did in spite of his incompetence rather than by any deliberate action.
throw him in and it's not the Wack, that's where the real shit is.
Ironically the meat eating dudes that slag cow shit...........
Mynio is having a decent night: 2 goals (1 on the power play) and 1 assist, late in the third.
You're kidding me, right? Have you been watching this Abbotsford blueline lately?
Throw D-Petey off the deep-end if you have to. He can't be any worse than most of the guys they're trotting out on defense these days.
The only way he's going to acclimatize himself to hockey on the smaller NA rinks is to play. That's what your AHL farm-team is supposed to be all about.
He’s 19 and has been playing in an ECHL level league. He’s almost certainly worse than age 23-25 guys with much more experience at higher levels. Or a 10-year NHL veteran in Irwin.
Hmm...no...absolutely NO.
"He can't be any worse than most of the guys" has nothing to do with his future impact for the NHL team and how he develops as an NHL defenseman.
There are ZERO f@cks given about how he affects the Abby blue line and playoff chances.
Him and Lekki are coming over to get acquainted...not make an impact UNLESS they show they can dominate...but that is not the expectation.
So why bother bringing him to Abbotsford at all? It's not like the guy's been playing Jr. B. hockey all season The Allsvenskan may be the equivalent of the ECHL, I have no idea.
But to me it would be pointless to have him practicing and playing every second or third game and getting eight minutes a night. He needs to find out in a hurry where he's at with NA pros.
If he struggles, then he'll learn in a hurry what he needs to work on. It'll make him a much better player at training camp next September.
This is basically the Danila Klimovich developmental path that was heavily questioned at the time and did the guy zero favours.
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