Prospect Info: Vancouver Canucks 2016 Top 25 Prospects - #13

[Saturated Fats]

POLL #12 (89 total votes)
Cole Cassels - 29 votes
William Lockwood - 19 votes
Tate Olson - 18 votes
Mike Zalewski - 10 votes
Dmitri Zhukenov - 3 votes
Cole Candella - 3 votes
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 (QMJHL)|6.02|174|Jul 21 1997|66th (2015)|13 (↑4)| 52.88%
10|Adam Gaudette|C|Northeastern (NCAA)|6.01|170|Oct 3 1996|149th (2015)|NR| 28.85%
11|Andrey Pedan|D|Utica (AHL)/Vancouver (NHL)|6.05|213|Jul 3 1993|63rd (2011)|15 (↑4)| 30.59%
12|Cole Cassels|C|Utica (AHL)|6.00|180|May 4 1995|85th (2013)|5 (↓7)| 32.58%

Added - Michael Carcone

Cole drops. A long, long ways. Carry on!

Click to read more...

 

[Saturated Fats]

For me, it's Garteig here.

Goalies are extremely hard to rank... but he has shown real well over the past 2 years at a high level, and while he is very unlikely to pass Demko on any depth chart, he shows better as a pro-ready prospect than any of the alternatives.

 

[Nucker101]

Olson again for me.

 

[Alexander Edler]

Olson again for me.

Same

 

[Scygen]

going with Olson, could be Zalewski.

 

[Canadian Canuck]

Went with Lockwood but really close with Olsen and Candela imo

 

[turkulad]

Interesting, might be time for a tiebreaker for this one..

 

[Scurr]

It doesn't make sense to rate a newly drafted late round pick over a late round pick with some good post draft progression imo.

 

[WTG]

Tate Olson is a absolutely fantastic prospect.

He's going to be the Ben Hutton of this years prospect rankings. (In relation to Hutton's rise from 11th to top 4 prospect in the span of a few months)

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1935581&highlight=canucks+2015+top+prospects

 

[Saturated Fats]

If it ends with 3 or fewer votes separating, we'll run a tiebreaker/run-off round.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

We...really haven't got a lot of forward prospects coming up, do we?

 

[Saturated Fats]

We...really haven't got a lot of forward prospects coming up, do we?

Outside of Boeser and Virtanen, I'm not sure we have a single 'sure thing' in the forward crop. Which is scary, yeah.

 

[Soups On]

Outside of Boeser and Virtanen, I'm not sure we have a single 'sure thing' in the forward crop. Which is scary, yeah.

Zalewski and Gaunce will be NHLers, but the upside looks like 3rd or 4th line so I'm not sure if that fits the definition of 'sure thing'

But hey, that's what happens when Shinkaruk and McCann get traded.