Guelph isn't very good this year.....I expect Arliksson to be in Abbotsford by mid-March......but at 6'6" and 235, he'll be 'big' even by AHL standards.
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sting101
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On Mynio:
On a phone call before the camp, the under-20 team’s new head scout, Al Murray, a two-time Stanley Cup champion and former director of scouting with both the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Los Angeles Kings, called him “the most improved player in junior hockey over the last two years.”
His Lightning, Murray said, “didn’t have him ranked anywhere near high enough” at the time.
On a phone call before the camp, the under-20 team’s new head scout, Al Murray, a two-time Stanley Cup champion and former director of scouting with both the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Los Angeles Kings, called him “the most improved player in junior hockey over the last two years.”
His Lightning, Murray said, “didn’t have him ranked anywhere near high enough” at the time.
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I’ll be damned, the kid isn’t from Sweden and they picked him anyway.
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Good article that articulates a lot of what I mentioned earlier. He had to learn to be a role player and defend and play PK behind a stacked defense, and now that they have graduated and he’s the veteran, he’s really getting to shine.
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SAWYER MYNIO: (from that article)
Matt O’Dette, the Thunderbirds’ head coach, said Mynio was quietly “a really key member” of the team that won the WHL title in his draft year.
It didn’t go unnoticed, either, even if he wasn’t viewed as a top two-round pick (NHL Central Scouting ranked him 63rd on their final list of North American skaters, up from 111th at midseason that year).
“At the time a lot of teams were very high on him and thought they could get him in a steal type of area and I know when Vancouver picked him that there was a lot of teams that were disappointed that they didn’t get him because they were very high on him and felt he was somewhat under the radar,” O’Dette said.
“He has no trouble skating with anybody,” O’Dette said. “And for a very skilled guy, he has an edge to him. He’s hard to play against. He doesn’t back down from physicality. He maybe toes the line as far as chippiness. So there’s a lot to like about Sawyer.”
Hockey Canada seems to agree as well. Murray lauded Mynio’s positioning, his defending and the effectiveness of his game.
“(His game) just continues to get better in a real simple, understated, competitive way. You may not notice him over the course of the World Juniors and he could be one of our most valuable players,” Murray said, though he also insisted that he’s “not a lock to make to make the team and (he’s) competing for spots.”
Doesn’t come as a surprise to La Forge. He believes the Canucks got “one of the steals of the draft when they selected him in the third round” specifically because he wasn’t featured prominently on their team.
“We always knew that there was offence there because he’s got a cannon of a shot and he can really skate, so you could see the offence but he just wasn’t put in those positions,” La Forge said. “I mean his skating is elite. He can play special teams very well, both penalty killing and on the power play, he eats shots. I mean he blocks more shots than you probably want him to sometimes because he has to limp around. And then just the ability to defend speed and skill. With his movement and his hockey sense, he can really defend high-skill players.”
* Really impressive stuff to hear and was definitely the surprise of camp for me. I liked him the year prior but the steps he took and how he skates is pretty much NHL ready. Makes a excellent transition pass and as noted his 4 way skating and agility is superb. Needs to get stronger but now 1 of 4 excellent D prospects. Hope he makes Canada i think he's better than Price but Schaefer wow this kid is gonna be something special and Molendyk Dickinson are gonna play a lot
Matt O’Dette, the Thunderbirds’ head coach, said Mynio was quietly “a really key member” of the team that won the WHL title in his draft year.
It didn’t go unnoticed, either, even if he wasn’t viewed as a top two-round pick (NHL Central Scouting ranked him 63rd on their final list of North American skaters, up from 111th at midseason that year).
“At the time a lot of teams were very high on him and thought they could get him in a steal type of area and I know when Vancouver picked him that there was a lot of teams that were disappointed that they didn’t get him because they were very high on him and felt he was somewhat under the radar,” O’Dette said.
“He has no trouble skating with anybody,” O’Dette said. “And for a very skilled guy, he has an edge to him. He’s hard to play against. He doesn’t back down from physicality. He maybe toes the line as far as chippiness. So there’s a lot to like about Sawyer.”
Hockey Canada seems to agree as well. Murray lauded Mynio’s positioning, his defending and the effectiveness of his game.
“(His game) just continues to get better in a real simple, understated, competitive way. You may not notice him over the course of the World Juniors and he could be one of our most valuable players,” Murray said, though he also insisted that he’s “not a lock to make to make the team and (he’s) competing for spots.”
Doesn’t come as a surprise to La Forge. He believes the Canucks got “one of the steals of the draft when they selected him in the third round” specifically because he wasn’t featured prominently on their team.
“We always knew that there was offence there because he’s got a cannon of a shot and he can really skate, so you could see the offence but he just wasn’t put in those positions,” La Forge said. “I mean his skating is elite. He can play special teams very well, both penalty killing and on the power play, he eats shots. I mean he blocks more shots than you probably want him to sometimes because he has to limp around. And then just the ability to defend speed and skill. With his movement and his hockey sense, he can really defend high-skill players.”
* Really impressive stuff to hear and was definitely the surprise of camp for me. I liked him the year prior but the steps he took and how he skates is pretty much NHL ready. Makes a excellent transition pass and as noted his 4 way skating and agility is superb. Needs to get stronger but now 1 of 4 excellent D prospects. Hope he makes Canada i think he's better than Price but Schaefer wow this kid is gonna be something special and Molendyk Dickinson are gonna play a lot
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Oh yeah. That's going to be his song on HF when he plays for the Canucks.
Oh yeah. That's going to be his song on HF when he plays for the Canucks.
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Sounds like Sawyer Mynio had made team Canada!
Mr. Canucklehead
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Great stuff, always fun to watch one of our prospects play for Team Canada.
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Also Sansonnens for the Swiss.
Not actually sure if this is a great thing. He'd been on a nice roll getting top-line minutes next to Luchanko and now he's going to a team where Martone-Misa-Rehkopf take up virtually all the prime offensive minutes.
Mr. Canucklehead
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Yeah - while being on a team that is (moderately?) better might have some development opportunities, he really seemed to be hitting his stride in his current role.
Yeah, this is a player who really needs skill development and opportunites to expand his skillset and he was in a good spot for that and is now going to a place where he'll be expected to be a 'big gritty depth guy' in all likelihood and get a fraction of the PP minutes and offensive looks.
Watched that grind-down in Vegas tonight. Everybody talks about Lekkerimaki and Wlnander.
But the two most important prospects the Canucks might have right now might be Elias Pettersson II and Vilmer Arliksson. Size and speed.....you can't teach it, even if they don't prove to be big-time scorers if and when they hit the NHL.
But the two most important prospects the Canucks might have right now might be Elias Pettersson II and Vilmer Arliksson. Size and speed.....you can't teach it, even if they don't prove to be big-time scorers if and when they hit the NHL.
