Le capitaine Quinn a pris place sur la grille hier ! HM : Bourdon, Petey, Bure
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I don’t know it this constitutes “wasted potential”, because his career was ended via illness.
Cody Hodgson comes to mind for me. He was legit one of the top prospects coming into the league, and unfortunately got dealt a bad hand of cards with his health.
Virtanen is a lock
Cam Neely
In Vancouver? Forsling
Neely or Forsling both have good careers after leaving us, but at least we got good trade value for Neely, though injuries hurt Pederson’s effectiveness.
Virtanen.
All the tools, none of the brains
Cody Hodgson
Im going with Cory Schneider despite him being good
He was stuck behind multiple Hall of Famers for the first stretch of his career, proved he was an absolute elite goalie as soon as he was given a chance (not here), but was behind a lottery team so no one noticed, then got injured and retired.
I have to think there’s a chance he’s talked up as one of the elite American goaltenders ever if he actually got to show it
Some are saying Jake, but it has to be Juilevi to me. Didn’t put in the work. Him sprawled out at camp is the lasting image. There were rumors he was the guy the one agent said sank his career playing video games.
Fedor Fedorov put up 10 points in 6 AHL games to start the season when he was on a line with rookie Ryan Kesler.
The dude had all the talent and potential in the world but was a crybaby, entitled, diva style Russian who just didn’t care enough to play to his full potential and that was even the case in the OHL. When he wanted to, he overtook games. The problem is he would rather drink and meet girls at the club than actually focus on hockey
Podkolzin?
I’m going to say Cody hodgeson and sadly right now podkolzin.
Messier= « We don’t talk about him; We try to forget he was ever in a Canucks jersey »
I had a work friend who was dating Chris Higgins while he was a coach for the Canucks (not sure if he still is) but she told me he said Jake was the dumbest player he had ever worked with.
Cody Hodgson all the way 🙏
Virtanen is a rapist and does not deserve to be mentioned on the grid.
Anson Carter.
Cam Neely is definitely the answer. Or if you’re defining it by when he was actually here, recency bias is Jake Virtanen.
I’m going with the Canucks 2nd overall pick in 1990, Petr Nedved. Guy was labeled to be a star in the NHL pre-draft. Europeans who grew up with him, like Jagr, talk about how great of a player he was in Europe. After the draft, he had a few disappointing seasons with the Canucks, kinda coasted with his development, then had a contract dispute with us and was shipped out. He’d go on to have a pretty great NHL career almost hitting 1000 GP, but he never lived up anywhere close to his potential. Especially since his tenure with the Canucks was so short.
Can we say Luc Bourdon? The waste wasn’t through any fault of his own…
NOT VIRTANEN. You can’t squander potential you didn’t have. He was never going to be an impact NHL player with that lousy work ethic and zero IQ.
He had the physical tools. But that doesn’t mean shit. Every single preseason you’d hear « maybe this is the year he puts it together » and that was fairytale shit. Nothing going on from the shoulder pads up. Fuck that loser.
Hunter Shinkaruk lol
I know he had good seasons stat wise with us, but Alexander Mogilny. Pat Quinn said he was the most talented player he had ever seen play the game, but just didn’t put the effort in.
What about Krutov? He was supposed to be top-tier world-class but just got fat instead.
Shawn Antoski. We used our second first-round pick to draft him ahead of Keith Tkachuk and Martin Brodeur. He was supposed to be a power forward when we needed one. Played less than a season’s worth of NHL hockey over his first five years as a pro, and 183 GP in total in his career.
Throwing out a name of a pretty good player, just for discussion: Bret Hedican. As a defensive defenceman, he had range and smoothness, and was a valuable part of the Canucks team.
Yet who didn’t wonder what he might have done under a different coach, and/or more confidence? I remember Paul Coffey saying, kind of out of the blue, that he would like a chance to work with Hedican, apparently seeing a skill set he understood.
That’s why I think of Hedican. His career was too good to seriously be called « most wasted » – it was a fine career, he was quite well known and got into broadcasting after. It is just that Bret was not a « Paul Coffey. »
Neely or Bourdon (not a bad way)
Zach Kassian
Sergei Shirokov
Virtanen
Toni Tanti
Cam Neely… Can’t wait for the next one!!!
GINO!!!!
I feel like we have 3 good choices one for each position.
1. Cory Schneider. We never really let him take the reins until the season we moved him, and he was amazing in Jersey for a few years. Stuck behind a legend like Lou really stunted what I think he could have done.
2. Cam Neely. It’s already been said in this thread. But essentially just never used him properly, pushed him down moved him for a vet. Turned into an elite talent.
3. Gustav Forsling. Never really put him in the lineup. And eventually went for nothing. Now is a cup winning elite defender.
Jared McCann
They rushed him in at 19 years old and let him play a single season. They shipped him off the next year after playing in the minors as a 20 year old. Far too early to give up on a late first rounder.
They at least gave Podkolzin several years to try and prove his worth.
Nikita Tryamkin!
Cam Neely!
Nedved for sure
Okay dark but true, Luc Bourdon. Motorcycles not worth it friends.
David Booth
Gustav Forsling!
Luc Bourdon
Todd Bertuzzi. Imagine if the incident didn’t occur…
I’m going to say Virtanen, because his potential was truly wasted rather than being spoiled by external factors.
I think we need better definitions for these.
To me, wasted potential would be a high performing player on a shitty team, where he’s individually good but the team never makes the playoffs because overall it’s bad.
Personally I’ll go with Jacob Markstrom. Marky was an elite goaltender with a shitty team in front of him. The only playoff action he saw was the bubble year. By the time the Canucks were good enough for another run (aka last year), Marky was already old and had been traded away in favour of Demko.
Prime Markstrom was definitely good enough to bring a team deep in the playoffs had the rest of roster been better.