Prospect Info: The 2024-2025 Prospect Thread: Part 1: Skate or Die!

[Lindgren]

Casual fans 'watch' prospect development camp. NHL teams use it as a 'development tool'. At the end of the week I'm sure they do player assessments and sit down with the prospect and give him a list of things he has to improve on.

Maybe they gave Brzustewicz a similar assessment, but weren't satisfied with his progress. Who knows? Surely you have to give Canucks staff more credit than flippantly suggesting that you didn't know they actually watched their own development camp?

He's flippantly suggesting something else.

 

[RobertKron]

. . .At the end of the week I'm sure they do player assessments and sit down with the prospect and give him a list of things he has to improve on. . .

Wait, really? I think I’m going to need you to cite some sources on this one.

 

[Yultron]

Extremely positive news out of North Bay . As Anthony Romani is back skating again . Still multiple weeks away but a return is finally close and he should be back in action just before the christmas break

 

[VanJack]

Wait, really? I think I’m going to need you to cite some sources on this one.

If I had some 'sources' they'd probably have said they identified Brustewicz's weaknesses with the help of fitness experts, video and coaches assessments. And they probably weren't satisfied with his progress.

Hence he was 'expendable' in a trade for Lindholm,. Yeh, actually sources would help. But even HF posters--or at least most of them--can read between the lines.

 

[Lindgren]

If I had some 'sources' they'd probably have said they identified Brustewicz's weaknesses with the help of fitness experts, video and coaches assessments. And they probably weren't satisfied with his progress.

Hence he was 'expendable' in a trade for Lindholm,. Yeh, actually sources would help. But even HF posters--or at least most of them--can read between the lines.

Somebody come to VanJack's rescue, please.

 

[VanJack]

Somebody come to VanJack's rescue, please.

That's the wonderful thing about HF Boards. We can agree to disagree.

The Canucks drafted Brzustewicz in the third round of the 2023 draft (75th overall). And after attending development and the Penticton prospects tournament, he went back and had a monster year in the OHL.

Yet the Canucks made little effort to sign him; and included him in the Lindholm trade.

So rather than 'coming to the rescue' of a fellow HF poster, what YOUR opinion?

 

[Lindgren]

That's the wonderful thing about HF Boards. We can agree to disagree.

The Canucks drafted Brzustewicz in the third round of the 2023 draft (75th overall). And after attending development and the Penticton prospects tournament, he went back and had a monster year in the OHL.

Yet the Canucks made little effort to sign him; and included him in the Lindholm trade.

So rather than 'coming to the rescue' of a fellow HF poster, what YOUR opinion?

You make some great posts, VanJack, but sometimes you miss a certain kind of sarcasm.

When you introduce a post with a suggestion that implies that most posters don't understand something that's in fact obvious, such as that there's a big drop off in the defense after the Canucks top pairing, or that management carefully evaluates prospects, there's a good chance you'll draw a sarcastic reply or two.

RobertKron wasn't really asking you for a source. He was whimsically pointing out that what you were offering up as a point you imagined was informative was actually something that everyone would be aware of. He was poking you a bit, because your post implies that everyone else is really quite stupid.

As to HB, I just don't know. Maybe the Canucks were high on him, but they wanted to get the deal done, and the only way they could was by including him. Maybe they'd completely soured on him as a prospect and were laughing to themselves that Calgary had any interest. In either case, I'd sure as hell hope that they went through the evaluative process you describe, because if they didn't, that's a scandalous lack of professionalism.