Prospect Info: The 2024 - 2025 Prospect Thread: Part 2: WE ARE SO F***ING BACK

[strattonius]

The prospect pool is floundering. Big years from some last year have slowed this year. Normal for a bunch of tweener prospects. Canucks need to draft in the first two rounds multiple years in a row and hit at least once a year for any sort of sustained success. As long as management doesn't f-up the rest of GMing.

Anyone who thought these junior players were en route to regular NHL duty in 3 years were absolutely dreaming. The fact that D-Petey jumped in to NHL action and looked as good as he did has me more excited about our prospect group. Not really floundering with such a hit there....

 

[ManVanFan]

Anyone who thought these junior players were en route to regular NHL duty in 3 years were absolutely dreaming. The fact that D-Petey jumped in to NHL action and looked as good as he did has me more excited about our prospect group. Not really floundering with such a hit there....

One player makes you excited our the prospect group. That shows how f-ing sad the group is then. Lol.

 

[Josepho]

DPettersson breaking out massively and Lekkerimaki pacing for 50 goals is way more important than if Riley Patterson is scoring at a good rate or whatever.

 

[Lindgren]

Ty Young has his second shutout in a row. He stopped all 37 shots in a 4-0 win for the K-Wings.

 

[MS]

DPettersson breaking out massively and Lekkerimaki pacing for 50 goals is way more important than if Riley Patterson is scoring at a good rate or whatever.

Yeah, we have 3 prospects (Wilander, EP2, Lekkerimaki) who are top-50 in the NHL all progressing very well.

The strength of a prospect pool is the top guys, not whether Romani or Alcos have elevated their stock or not.

Our prospect pool at D might be the best in the NHL, full stop.

 

[Lindgren]

Ty Young has his second shutout in a row. He stopped all 37 shots in a 4-0 win for the K-Wings.

And his save % is now .931, which is third best in the league among goalies with ten or more starts.

 

[Vector]

Goalies are mystics and there’s no changing my mind.

 

[arttk]

Anyone who thought these junior players were en route to regular NHL duty in 3 years were absolutely dreaming. The fact that D-Petey jumped in to NHL action and looked as good as he did has me more excited about our prospect group. Not really floundering with such a hit there....

Hard to be disappointed when it looks like we got basically 2 potential top4 D and a top 6 winger and maybe 2 3rd pairing D from 2 drafts…
I think the only downer is the last draft but we did got some trade value out of Fernstom at least in the short term.

 

[strattonius]

One player makes you excited our the prospect group. That shows how f-ing sad the group is then. Lol.

No. We have Lekkerimaki, Willander and D-Petey all looking like future NHL'ers

You are over-rating depth prospects. They don't really matter in determining the strength of a prospect pool. It is all about the top of your crop, and right now we are looking good in that area.

 

[VanJack]

No. We have Lekkerimaki, Willander and D-Petey all looking like future NHL'ers

You are over-rating depth prospects. They don't really matter in determining the strength of a prospect pool. It is all about the top of your crop, and right now we are looking good in that area.

Canucks had no first rounder or second rounder in 2020; no first rounder in 2021; no second rounder in 2022; no second rounder in 2023; and of course no first or second rounder in 2024.

I guess there were some logical reasons for surrendering these picks at the time. And I suppose the Canucks wouldn't have 'hit' on all of them.

But you can't help but wonder how much better their prospect pipeline would be if they'd kept more of those high picks.

 

[Szechwan]

Yeah, we have 3 prospects (Wilander, EP2, Lekkerimaki) who are top-50 in the NHL all progressing very well.
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Our prospect pool at D might be the best in the NHL, full stop.

This hadn't really occurred to me, I wonder if the rest of the league would share that opinion.

Willander
D-Petey
Kud
Mynio
Mancini

Is pretty damn solid. No clue where to slot Mancini into that

 

[Wry n Ginger]

One player makes you excited our the prospect group. That shows how f-ing sad the group is then. Lol.

That isn't what happened...pointing out one player does not mean that only one player is noteworthy.

Debate isn't really your thing.

 

[strattonius]

That isn't what happened...pointing out one player does not mean that only one player is noteworthy.

Debate isn't really your thing.

You're trying to reason with someone who thinks the regression of Vilmer Alriksson and Anthony Romani has tanked our prospect pool.