Confirmed with Link: Canucks draft D Mike Williamson 175th overall (6th round)

[me2]

Thanks guys. Raymond eh? Not a whole lot of history to go back on, then, with that league, and even he lit it up as a 19 year old. Seems like MG throwing his scout a bone here.

I'd throw him a redundancy cheque if this turns out as expected.

 

[701]

Raymond?

Or did we get him out of college.

Raymond starred in the AJHL and then was at U of Minn Duluth
for a year or two.

Price followed a similar path, but played all 4 years at Colgate.

 

[SweetStache]

20 y/o defender under 0.5 points/game in a weak league? Heading to a really crappy college program at Penn State?

First reaction is that this one looks like a lemon.

I wouldn't call Penn State a crappy program (just yet). The program has only been D1 for one year but they already have beaten Vermont, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Ohio State and the US under 18 team. Pegula built them a top notch arena which opens later this year.

Their goalie got picked 70th overall by NYI.

http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-hockey/psu-m-hockey-body.html

 

[blindpass]

Would have liked to have seen them take Jesse Lees with this pick.

 

[Wolfhard]

Should have taken Brodeur, and then held him hostage until NJ gave us Schneider back

 

[TBIF]

Raymond starred in the AJHL and then was at U of Minn Duluth
for a year or two.

Price followed a similar path, but played all 4 years at Colgate.

I was aware he was an AJHL'er, watched him play in Camrose, wasn't sure if we drafted from Camrose or or UMD though

 

[biturbo19]

lmao the AJHL.

Sawyer Hannay 2.0 basically.

 

[denkiteki]

Given our 6th round history... safe to say whoever we picked wouldn't matter given the only prospect in the 6th round who has/had any upside is Joe Cannata (and i guess Shirokov a few years back). But the rest are non-factors with virtually no chance/had no chance of making the NHL so nothing new here nor out of the norm given the chance a 6th rounder makes the NHL is pretty low anyways. Would've prefer going for a boom/bust pick but who knows, maybe going with a no upside pick lands us a bottom 6 dman a few years later.

 

[Jack Tripper]

it's a 6th round pick so if there's a place to give a particular scout a chance at a longshot pick, that's the place

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

We got Mason Raymond out of the AJHL too, true, but Raymond is probably the greatest player in NHL history to be drafted out of there. Gary Valk is probably 2nd. Not optimistic.

 

[Verviticus]

optimistic would be giving this guy a chance at any level of professional hockey, even the sphl. i cant fathom what the **** they were thinking here

 

[Zarpan]

I have no idea about him, but at least he was ranked by Central Scouting unlike Hannay and Fuller.

 

[Frank Garrett]

He's the next Neil Wilkinson.

 

[orcatown]

Know little about him but did make the all rookie team in 2011 -2013

http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/06/two_penn_state_freshmen_select.html

 

[jigsaw99]

we should just trade 6-7th picks for 5ths next time.

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

canucks love spending late draft picks on overage junior a players, bit strange

An odd, but fairly harmless fetish of the Gillis regime I suppose.

 

[medgett]

Terrible pick. Not only do his stats suck, but he has a really boring name as well.

That's exactly what I thought. What a drop off from a beauty like Anton Cederholm.

 

[Williamson]

Terrible pick. Not only do his stats suck, but he has a really boring name as well.

Says Tim Calhoun

 

[ihaveyuidonttouchme]

Says Tim Calhoun

is that you mike?

 

[Bitz and Bites]

That's exactly what I thought. What a drop off from a beauty like Anton Cederholm.

It looks like our scouting dept got their groove back in time for our 7th and picked Miles Liberate.Now that's a great name.

 

[vanuck]

Says Tim Calhoun

Awkwaaaaaaard.

 

[arsmaster*]

So nobody has dug anything up on this guy yet?

Been playing on google, found a blog with video clips here: http://thankyouterry.blogspot.ca/2013/01/all-saints-day.html

Now all I can really find is team new, but his Spruce Grove Saints team made it to the league finals losing in 5 to the eventual RBC Cup Champs (best junior A team in Canada...the Memorial Cup of Junior A).

Seems like a guy who`s struggled with injuries but might have upside.

Part of the reason I started digging was because MS brought up a Nick Holden in the Jon Blum thread, and I thought it was interesting people were advocating to sign that guy, and his career to date is very similar to Williamson`s. Jet people are instantly ready to call this 6th rounder a wasted pick.

Holden went the WHL route after playing in the AJHL, but the point remains. These are late round flyers on long term prospects, that might someday amount to something.

 

[me2]

So nobody has dug anything up on this guy yet?

Been playing on google, found a blog with video clips here: http://thankyouterry.blogspot.ca/2013/01/all-saints-day.html

Now all I can really find is team new, but his Spruce Grove Saints team made it to the league finals losing in 5 to the eventual RBC Cup Champs (best junior A team in Canada...the Memorial Cup of Junior A).

Seems like a guy who`s struggled with injuries but might have upside.

Part of the reason I started digging was because MS brought up a Nick Holden in the Jon Blum thread, and I thought it was interesting people were advocating to sign that guy, and his career to date is very similar to Williamson`s. Jet people are instantly ready to call this 6th rounder a wasted pick.

Holden went the WHL route after playing in the AJHL, but the point remains. These are late round flyers on long term prospects, that might someday amount to something.

And Holden is available for free as very low cost UFA. Wouldn't mind Comets picking him up.

None the less, fingers crossed for Williamson breaking out.

 

[arsmaster*]

We should get viewings of him with Penn State in the inaugural season of the Big Ten Conference in NCAA college hockey.

He`ll have head to head games against Joseph Labate.

 

[SgtToody]

Apparently the Canucks saw a lot of character in him, and ownership was adamant that the club go after someone who Mike wouldn't be tempted to sign to a long term, no trade contract. Also, he's related to Italian royalty on his mom's side - Chef Boyardee.