Prospect Info: Canucks select F Rodrigo Abols (7th Round, 184th Overall)

[Mr. Canucklehead]

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=154962

20 year old, 6'5 Center from Latvia.

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[Canucks LB]

Latvia, that's cute

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Gross. Third time overager

 

[Canadian Canuck]

Yuck...

Better take Ronning with the other 7th...

Side note, where did Benson go?

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

In this round we should just pick players with funny name

 

[kanucks25]

Wasn't this guy a rookie camp invite with us in a previous year?

 

[NuxFan09]

Yuck...

Better take Ronning with the other 7th...

Side note, where did Benson go?

Guess who...the Oilers.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

There's the coke machine.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Yuck...

Better take Ronning with the other 7th...

Side note, where did Benson go?

Edmonton

 

[HalfPastDan]

Weird. He appeared in our prospect camp a few years back and everyone wanted to sign him over Kenins.

 

[Nucker42]

Haven't chimed in yet. Love this pick. Liked him last year in the prospects tourney but the Canucks couldn't sign him because of some cba bs issue.

Very tall and rangy. Good speed. Obviously a prospect but he is AHL eligible last year so solid depth move across the board.

'96 born.

 

[MS]

Awful pick.

Couldn't crack 50 points in the WHL at age 20.

 

[FroshaugFan2]

Passed through two drafts already. Underwhelming as a 19 year old in the WHL.

Likely an overager in the WHL or ECHL bound next season.

 

[Knight53]

Bleh

 

[JumpierPegasus]

Weird. He appeared in our prospect camp a few years back and everyone wanted to sign him over Kenins.

That was Miks Indraisis

Believe this guy was here last season

 

[biturbo19]

I mean, he was pretty much halfway a Canucks prospect beforehand. So...

 

[Nucker42]

Keep in mind, had a stint in the KHL and it was his FIRST year in Canada last year.

 

[Intoewsables]

I remember him looking good at that prospect camp a while back, but he's pretty clearly not worth a pick. At his age, he should be destroying the WHL if he's going to have any sort of impact in pro hockey. Sigh.

 

[thefeebster]

From HP:

While he has good size and made some plays with the puck, it is hard to imagine him getting drafted after being passed over twice already. He’s a decent player but not quite skilled enough to play the game he wants to play. His compete level was OK, but I don’t think he packs enough punch or defensive smarts for a bottom 6 NHL role either.

Ugly. I was interested to see how he would do in the WHL after the decent camp he put together... Was not impressed with the results.

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Weird. He appeared in our prospect camp a few years back and everyone wanted to sign him over Kenins.

No you are confusing him with the other Latvian we had at camp a few years ago, i forget his name but he was forgettable. Anyone who went to the camp liked Kenins more than that guy.

Abols was just last season and Kenins was already with us.

EDIT: the guy we signed Kenins over was Miks Indrasis, NOT Abols.

 

[absolute garbage]

This year's Stewart. Just a wasted pick. Simply unjustifiable.

 

[Mad Brills*]

couldn't hit ppg as a 20 year old.

Yikes.

 

[Tobi Wan Kenobi]

What are you guys talking about he looked good at our prospects camp a few years ago and we signed Kenins over him? SMH what are there only two ****ing Latvian hockey players?

 

[turkulad]

What are you guys talking about he looked good at our prospects camp a few years ago and we signed Kenins over him? SMH what are there only two ****ing Latvian hockey players?

The CBA didn't allow us to sign him then.

"We can’t sign him. The deal with him is that we watched him last year, we were thinking about drafting him, and then for whatever reason we didn’t draft him. He’s playing in Portland this year, and because he’s a European player, he’s ineligible to sign with us right now, or with anytime, so he’ll play in Portland this year, he’ll go through the draft next year, and that’ll decide where he ends up." (CanucksArmy)

 

[hellstick]

I mean, he was pretty much halfway a Canucks prospect beforehand. So...

Should have just signed him after the fact then. Waste of a pick, literally.

 

[DCantheDDad]

Honestly would rather have picked Ronning for nostalgia alone. This looks and feels like a wasted pick.