Next Canucks star?

[Favre4]

Who do you consider the next star player for our squad? Obviously this team will need a new high end player to lead them as the Sedins years are catching up on them...so in the coming years who do u see emerging in that role? A prospect like Virtanen? A long shot like cassels? Rodin? Maybe a future free agent you see the Canucks picking up?

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[M2Beezy]

Boeser has the best shot

Outside shots at being super stars are Gaudette and Tater Tot Olsen

Hutton if he progresses his offence to be as good as his position and d was last year then watch out league

 

[Intoewsables]

Mackenze Stewart

 

[rune74]

Boeser, Virtanen. jolovie and Demko all have chances to be the next stars...

 

[Ho Borvat]

Maybe I just have a bit of a higher threshold for "star" but I don't think we have any in the system right now.

 

[JA]

I think a legitimate superstar has yet to be drafted by the Canucks.

 

[Donuts]

nolan patrick or we ll get to see the joulevi - liljegren pairing in the near future

 

[ziploc]

I think Boeser is the only guy who has a chance of being a top line contributor from our system. Juolevi likely won't be a star, more of a #2 defenseman. But who knows? Would love to see Virtanen break out, but I think we should be thrilled if he becomes a JVR kind of player. Horvat could be a Kesler kind of player - is that a star? I think Kesler probably was for at least one year.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

The new face of this team?
Bo

 

[Vancouver_2010]

Patrick White, miles ahead of that nobody david perron. Seriously though, maybe Demko? His number in college seems elite to me.

 

[Red]

IMO Boeser is the only one of our forward prospects who has the potential to have multiple 35+ goal seasons.

Juolevi has the potential to become a franchise #1 defenseman, but I think he's more likely to top out as an excellent #2D for us.

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Demko has the best chance right now IMO.

 

[Favre4]

Tkachuck would have been a prime candidate imo

 

[Nucker101]

Juolevi doesn't play a flashy game so I'd say he's out. Boeser or Demko have a shot. But I don't see any true franchise level talents in our system. Bo will be more of a good 2nd liner type in my opinion.

 

[coldsteel79]

Tkachuck would have been a prime candidate imo

Boeser has more potential to be a superstar

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Boeser has more potential to be a superstar

Don't know if I'd say that. Even on the same team at the world juniors the team chose to use the younger Tkachuk in a more offensive position than the older Boeser... and Tkachuk had 11 pts to Boeser's 3.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Don't know if I'd say that. Even on the same team at the world juniors the team chose to use the younger Tkachuk in a more offensive position than the older Boeser... and Tkachuk had 11 pts to Boeser's 3.

WJC is the worst possible competition to judge a prospect's potential

 

[Tables of Stats]

Does Horvat count? I feel like he's being sold as a star and plays well enough to deserve at least some of the hype. If he takes another step this season is he a legit star?

 

[The Stig]

I think a legitimate superstar has yet to be drafted by the Canucks.

Do you mean at the moment or all time? Cuz we had this one guy named Pavel...and these guys who got back to back Art Ross trophies.

 

[fancouver]

Gonna go with Demko.

He looks better than Schneider at the same age and assuming he has a similar development curve, Vancouver is going to fall in love with him as they do with goalies of recent past.

Further, Canucks don't have a "Pavel Bure or Markus Naslund" in the making. As good as Boeser may be, he doesn't have the same swagger as them. Given that we are also in the same division as McDavid, I doubt anyone the Canucks have, or will draft, can compare to him in the next decade.

That means, our stars won't be from offense, but from suppression. And that's why I think Demko will be the Canucks equalizer.

The future core is going to be carried by a goalie and defence due to lack of offense.

 

[vcanuck]

Anton Cederholm

 

[Pip]

Don't think he's in the organization yet.

 

[ginner classic]

Not drafted yet.

 

[touchnotthecat]

Nolan Patrick.

 

[PG Canuck]

Don't have one.