Rumor: Canucks prospect and U of M Captain Jacob Truscott will be testing free agency- Will not sign with the Canucks

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Reminds me of Hot Lips Hoolihan threatening to resign her commission.

Whatever. Nobody cares.

 

[Lunatik]

Canucks probably wanted to free up a contract spot and dumped Jurmo. i.e. Jurmo was negative value or no value.

The point is, no one cares about a nothing prospect.

Jurmo isn't signed, he's on the reserve list.

Recent scouting reports I've seen figure he'll maybe be a AAAA defenseman, since he has size and skates well, he'll get an opportunity. He wouldn't have much value, but definitely not negative.

 

[Brodeur]

born in michigan, played with the ntdp u-17/18 teams in michigan, then went to university of michigan. gee i wonder where he'll sign.

Maybe not exactly the same, but the Flyers dealt Michigan native / Wolverine Cooper Marody to Edmonton in 2018. Marody signed with Edmonton but only had a couple cups of coffee in the NHL.

Although I can't seem to find if the Flyers were worried Marody was a flight risk or if they sold high.

If I were looking for a path of least resistance to the NHL, I'm not sure Detroit would be the team. Ben Chiarot and Jake Walman are signed for a couple more seasons. Simon Edvinsson would be higher on the totem pole for a spot next year. And then they have a similarly aged and arguably better guy like Shai Buium.

 

[Rowlet]

I don't know who that is

 

[Bitz and Bites]

born in michigan, played with the ntdp u-17/18 teams in michigan, then went to university of michigan. gee i wonder where he'll sign.

Toronto?

 

[Djp]

Honestly if you're a third/fourth year NCAA player you may as well go the free agent route. Not really any drawbacks.

If you intentionally wait you will hurt long term career income

 

[Charlie Conway]

Rangers could use LD. As beloved as Ryan Lindgren is, I wonder if Drury will commit.

After that, the Rangers only really have Zac Jones and Matthew Robertson in the pipeline, and they’ll want a shutdown type there I think, so Jones would be expendable.

As-is, the 3LD spot has been a rotating cast over the last few years…Braun, Nemeth, Gustafsson, Jones, etc.

Still, he might find a more streamlined path to an NHL spot elsewhere.

 

[PettersonHughes]

Is there even Jimmy Vesey upside in this guy, as a fringe NHL roster player?
If not, step right up, step right up for the prize that can be yours if you enter the Canucks' Ilya Mikheyev Sweepstakes BOGO!!.

 

[Szechwan]

Given the sudden boost that happened to Brz's stock after getting traded away from Vancouver, I expect Truscott to be compared to Cale Makar within the week.

 

[StuckOutHere]

I am also a free agent. Where is my thread?

 

[82Ninety42011]

Good luck kid was nice not knowing you.

 

[EpochLink]

Another Jim Benning ass water draft pick

 

[Hansen]

Jurmo isn't signed, he's on the reserve list.

Recent scouting reports I've seen figure he'll maybe be a AAAA defenseman, since he has size and skates well, he'll get an opportunity. He wouldn't have much value, but definitely not negative.

Jurmo's value is somewhere between nothing and future considerations. He is a non-prospect

 

[Brent Burns Beard]

It’s a system that essentially destroys the whole purpose of the draft. Every team is given the same 7 draft picks at the start of the year to encourage parity and allow them to build. Allowing players to just ignore the picks used and do as they please just syphons talent down south. I know we are only talking about late round picks and isolated scenarios, but over time that adds up.

This is nonsense. The team can walk away from the player, does the player get compensation after having spent 4 or 5 seasons as their property only to be told na, we good fam.

It’s not a loophole, it’s a function.

 

[Hughes Hefner]

Why trade for him when he gets to be a free agent at 22? He’s probably not going to sign anywhere except where his mind is made up (Detroit is my guess).
[/QUOk
Kris Draper coached him for along time for little ceasers

 

[Qwijibo]

Trade and sign candidate.

Not when he's said he won't sign and is testing free agency

 

[dirtydanglez]

Not when he's said he won't sign and is testing free agency

he just want to be able to pick is landing spot.

 

[ThatGuy22]

This is nonsense. The team can walk away from the player, does the player get compensation after having spent 4 or 5 seasons as their property only to be told na, we good fam.

It’s not a loophole, it’s a function.

Yep. The only players in the world that can't become a UFA by waiting until they are 4 years post draft to become NHLers are Russians do to the lack of transfer agreement.

 

[FissionFire]

Why trade for him when he gets to be a free agent at 22? He’s probably not going to sign anywhere except where his mind is made up (Detroit is my guess).

That would be a bad move as Detroit is loaded with high level D prospects. Wallinder, Johansson, Edvinsson, Tuomisto, Buium, etc. All of them would be equal or better prospects to him.

 

[SantosHalper]

That would be a bad move as Detroit is loaded with high level D prospects. Wallinder, Johansson, Edvinsson, Tuomisto, Buium, etc. All of them would be equal or better prospects to him.

There is room in GR, Edvinsson will play in Detroit next season and maybe Johansson too, he's not waiver exempt after this season.

 

[FissionFire]

As a 22 year old, I imagine he wants a team who will have him in the NHL next season or the one after. That timeline will be tough in Detroit. Seider, Walman, Edvinsson, Chiarot, and Holl will have 5 spots next season (barring trades). He’s have to beat out every other prospect plus any UFA additions for the 6D spot. I doubt a team will sit him at 7D to rot rather than the AHL.

The year after he has the same players blocking him plus ASP on his heels for a spot. It’s very crowded prospect pool with lots of prospects with much higher upside in Detroit.

 

[norrisnick]

Could be he just wants a better AHL location than Abbotsford... Travel schedule in that Pacific division has got to be brutal...

 

[Jacob]

I’ll bet $7 he signs with Detroit.

 

[credulous]

i don't think this is about wanting an easier route to the nhl. he just would rather stay in the midwest than play in abbotsford. if he wanted a quick route to the nhl the canucks had some obvious holes on their left side coming into the season. he chose to go back to school instead