Prospect Info: Vancouver Canucks 2016 Top 25 Prospects - #10

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POLL #9 (104 total votes)
Guillaume Brisebois - 55 votes
Adam Gaudette - 20 votes
Cole Cassels - 11 votes
Andrey Pedan - 10 votes
Tate Olson - 3 votes
William Lockwood - 1 vote
Dmitri Zhukenov - 1 vote
Cole Candella - 1 vote
Jakob Stukel - 1 vote
Borna Rendulic - 1 vote​

Rank | Player | POS | 2015/16 Team | HT | WT | DOB | Drafted OA | 2015 Rank | Poll%
1|Brock Boeser|RW|Univ. of North Dakota (NCAA)|6.01|192|Feb 25 1997|23rd (2015)|3 (↑2)| 50.30%
2|Olli Juolevi|D|London (OHL)|6.03|179|May 5 1998|5th (2016)|NR| 61.90%
3|Thatcher Demko|G|Boston College (NCAA)|6.04|192|Dec 8 1995|36th (2014)|4 (↑1)| 57.28%
4|Jake Virtanen|RW|Vancouver (NHL)|6.01|208|Aug 17 1996|6th (2014)|1 (↓3)| 90.74%
5|Nikita Tryamkin|D|Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (KHL)|6.08|240|Aug 30 1994|66th (2014)|17 (↑12)| 66.67%
6|Brendan Gaunce|C/LW|Utica (AHL)/Vancouver (NHL)|6.02|207|Mar 25 1994|26th (2012)|7 (↑1)| 43.75%
7|Jordan Subban|D|Utica (AHL)|5.09|185|Mar 3 1995|115th (2013)|12 (↑5)| 48.51%
8|Troy Stecher|D|Univ. of North Dakota (NCAA)|5.11|192|Apr 7 1994|College FA (2016)|NR| 69.07%
9|Guillaume Brisebois|D|Acadie-Bathurst (NCAA)|6.02|174|Jul 21 1997|66th (2015)|13 (↑4)| 52.88%

Added - Mike Zalewski

Another D-man goes - 5 in the top-9. Guess it has become the strength of the stable.

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[M2Beezy]

This has to be Gaudette he should of gone at least five sooner

 

[Gaunce4gm]

Gaudette is good but I'll give the edge to Pedan due to his being closer to NHL ready and already showing well in Utica

 

[FOurteenS inCisOr]

Gotta be Z (Zalewski, not Zhukenov).

 

[Rotting Corpse*]

Zalewski is really not that different from Gaunce. A little older, but I suspect his being here while Gaunce went 6th has more to do with one being a first round pick and the other undrafted.

 

[Lemmiwinks]

Going with Pedan. I think he'll be a serviceable #7 next season.

 

[DL44]

Gaudette over Pedan is surprising.

But as we've seen in past votes at this point it doesn't matter. .. heheh heh

 

[DL44]

Cassels shouldn't belong anywhere near the top 15 till he can show he can skate .

 

[Red]

Gaudette

 

[turkulad]

Still Gaudette. If he pans out, we may get a true top6 type. If Cassels pans out, it's a really great 3C. That's the difference. Similar differences between Subban/Stecher and Pedan.

 

[Soups On]

Cassels shouldn't belong anywhere near the top 15 till he can show he can skate .

His skating is like Bonino's and like Bonino, he uses his high hockey sense to make up for it. He also missed a full off season of training and jumped to the AHL, which is difficult in itself.

Cassels again.

Though it needs to be mentioned that Gaudette had a really awesome second half and I could see him making a bigger jump up the rankings next year.

 

[DadBod]

I'm going Pedan who I feel should've been higher on this list considering he's a top 4 dman for the Comets and likely 6/7 defense for the Canucks.

 

[MS]

This is where it turns to a total crapshoot.

Voted Zalewski, who I think can play in the NHL right now if given a chance.

 

[Braeden]

Voted Pedan. Had a strong AHL showing. Might lose him on waivers this year though with Tryamkin here... Or Biega.

 

[crobro]

Rendulic

 

[Proto]

This is a bizarre series of polls. Personally, I feel like if you need to clear waivers, you should be in a different category of "prospect". Maybe Rodin should be in here too

 

[Red]

This is a bizarre series of polls. Personally, I feel like if you need to clear waivers, you should be in a different category of "prospect". Maybe Rodin should be in here too

There has to be some sort of criteria and some line. If we're going to compare our prospect pool to others teams, it has to be equivalent - this happens to be the criteria used by hfboards.

You're not the only one but I personally don't really get why so many people are whinging about how some of these guys aren't prospects by your own equally arbitrary criteria...

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Cassels for me. He looked awful last year but often prospects take a year to adjust to a new league. I still think he has the potential to be an NHL player. This year will be critical to see if his skating has improved.

 

[Alexander Edler]

Olson still best prospect in last 5 picks

 

[Lemmiwinks]

His skating is like Bonino's and like Bonino, he uses his high hockey sense to make up for it. He also missed a full off season of training and jumped to the AHL, which is difficult in itself.

Cassels again.

Though it needs to be mentioned that Gaudette had a really awesome second half and I could see him making a bigger jump up the rankings next year.

But he hasn't shown that at the AHL level yet. You're indeed right that his development was impeded by injury/lack of offseason training, but he still has to prove that he can keep up with an AHL pace of play before he can even be considered a true NHL prospect. To this point we've seen that his hockey sense has been enough to keep his nose above water and not much else.