[Corey Pronman] Les Canucks de Vancouver occupent la 28e place du classement des pipelines de la LNH pour 2024
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[Corey Pronman] Les Canucks de Vancouver occupent la 28e place du classement des pipelines de la LNH pour 2024
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Yikes
this is so sad. for not making the playoffs for a good stretch of time, you would assume the prospect pool would be a lot deeper
I mean we traded away one of our top prospects in Hunter Brsyzysyyssysushhsyzyyzhshsuzhzhzyzh along with other picks to make a push in playoffs. Also, Mynio, Fernström and even Willander are still so young to have expectations aside from making the NHL.
I mean…the Canucks have 2 draft picks in the top 40 in the last 5 entry drafts: Tom Willander (2023 #11) and Jonathan Lekkerimaki (2022 #15). And they just lost their 1st round pick from 6 drafts ago on waivers (Vasili Podkolzin). This is what happens when you trade draft picks to win now.
1. Willander
2. Lekkerimaki
3. Raty
4. D Petey
I think it’s so easy for people to forget the complete blunderfuck of a mess that PA and JR inherited from the Benning Regime. The fact that they were able to make us a legit competitive team while simultaneously having at least SOME prospects to be excited about is a success story, of course we’re not gonna have a filled pipeline, we won’t for a while too.
On the one hand, not having a ton of blue-chip prospects sucks for a team that’s been in the playoffs just twice in the last 10 years
At the same time though, you look at what those 1sts turned into for us (2020 – Miller, 2021 – Garland, 2023 (from NYI) – Hronek, 2024 – Lindholm) and it seems like we might have gotten even better value overall than we would have if we just kept those picks.
Overall I think the Canucks have done a good job at building a competitive team while not completely sewering the prospect group, Willander and Lekkerimäki still look like they’ll be something, and they did a good job at drafting Brzustewicz with a 3rd and getting even more value back in trading him.
It’s not hard to envision this team staying competitive for a long time – Quinn Hughes isn’t even 25 yet. As long as the team stays savvy with their draft choices, and identifying whether it’s worth keeping or trading for talent now, I don’t have a massive issue with the lack of can’t-miss prospects in our system.
Yeah, Rutherford and Allvin did some great work just getting us to where we were last year… a competitive team.
But between the desert Benning left us and the chips we pushed in to make a run in the playoffs, we are lucky to even have a 28 OA prospect pool. Hopefully we can start accumulating assets again.