[Canucks] « Il y a deux ans, il n’y avait pas de décisions vraiment difficiles. Aujourd’hui, il y en a… Les gars font pression pour obtenir un emploi. » L’entraîneur Tocchet discute des mises à jour des effectifs d’aujourd’hui et de la concentration de l’équipe dans les derniers jours précédant la saison régulière.
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LeiraC6
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Good problem to have.
Arturito forcing his way onto the roster 💪
I get that’s it’s extremely easy to overrate current prospects, but it’s insane how quickly our mid-late round drafting turned around since Benning. Like under Benning we only had ONE pick after the 2nd round become a 100-game NHL player (Gaudette) since 2015. Hell, only one 2nd round pick really worked out (Hoggy). That’s a horrible track record.
Now, I know that most of these guys will inevitably flame out before hitting the NHL but in two drafts (compared to the previous six for Benning) we picked up players like D-Petey, Mynio, Kudryavtsev, Brzustewicz (RIP), Alriksson and Mueller from the mid-late rounds. I’d guarantee we get more than one 100-game NHL player from that list.
Edit: Did forget our boy Silovs, but even that’s more on Ian Clark’s autonomy
LOVE hearing that compete level increase!
Allvin has really come in and worked overtime creating a winning organization from top to bottom. When you look at what Benning left him, he’s done so well. A year ago, waiving PDG would have been insane! Now we have more depth than we can keep on the roster. Great problem to have.
“We gotta lotta jobs” – Tocchet, 2 years ago