Confirmed with Link: Canucks Sign Ty Mueller (C) to 3-Year ELC

[orcatown]

Highest upside that could be expected (and this is beginning optomistic) is Blueger type player. Decision making, play reading and motor seem chief attributes.

According to all accounts, he has shown progression as he has moved up. And that's the key. You just can't plateau. Biggest and most obvious question, now, is can he progress to the pro game.

 

[StreetHawk]

Highest upside that could be expected (and this is beginning optomistic) is Blueger type player. Decision making, play reading and motor seem chief attributes.

According to all accounts, he has shown progression as he has moved up. And that's the key. You just can't plateau. Biggest and most obvious question, now, is can he progress to the pro game.

He's a bottom 6 guy if he makes it. Agreed that it is a bit surprising to see him leave school with a year left of eligibility. figured, he'd just play it out and sign next year.

Must feel really good about his chances with Canucks management to not just finish school as he is a guy who needs AHL time.

 

[VanJack]

By the time you get to the fourth round in any draft, you're basically crossing your fingers. If a guy can even carve out a career in the AHL, that's often as good as its going to get. And that's especially true of a guy who wasn't drafted until he was 20.

But as others have pointed out, Mueller has made significant strides in each of his past three seasons. And that's about all you can hope for, and the reason he ultimately earned a contract.

And I guess you just never know. Guys like Sasson and Bains were never drafted....and there's little doubt they will both play games for the NHL Canucks.

 

[F A N]

Highest upside that could be expected (and this is beginning optomistic) is Blueger type player. Decision making, play reading and motor seem chief attributes.

According to all accounts, he has shown progression as he has moved up. And that's the key. You just can't plateau. Biggest and most obvious question, now, is can he progress to the pro game.

Ya I was thinking Blueger as the best case scenario. Numbers look underwhelming. He looked fast in the highlights. But if he’s a C who who has defensive potential and can wins face offs that’s a good start. I doubt the skating, IQ, and skills package is there to move up though.

He's a bottom 6 guy if he makes it. Agreed that it is a bit surprising to see him leave school with a year left of eligibility. figured, he'd just play it out and sign next year.

Must feel really good about his chances with Canucks management to not just finish school as he is a guy who needs AHL time.

Well the guy was bypassed twice in the draft before the Canucks drafted him (and even then it was early). Loyalty should matter a bit here.

 

[Yultron]

I am not high on this prospect at all, hope he can prove me wrong .

Really needed him to become a point per game player this year in NCAA and he was unable to reach that achievement

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

may he make up for giving away ty madden

 

[Hoglander]

may he make up for drafting ty madden

 

[arttk]

may he make up for giving away ty madden

may he make up for drafting ty madden

Burner accounts?

 

[Vancouver_2010]

may he make up for giving away ty madden

He still hasn't play a single nhl game

 

[orcatown]

And Madden is still a long shot to get much NHL time. But trust Benning to mess up what was a pretty decent trade.

 

[IComeInPeace]

Reading through the Mueller thread after he was drafted.

Equal parts entertaining (at how many scouting experts we have in this fan base that had never seen the kid play or even heard of him, and nauseating.

If you’re bored and want to read some hot tales, there are plenty of them in here:

Prospect Info: - Ty Mueller: 105th Overall 2023 Draft (Nebraska-Omaha) - C

Really depends on what that means to Allvin. It might mean something else for someone else. Do you take a guy that has a lot of speed but no IQ or hands? Do you take a huge guy that has skating issues? Do you take a 5'8 or 5'7 forward that scores a lot? One thing I want the Canucks to do in...

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Anyways, congrats to the kid.
It seems like these are the types of picks good organizations turn into contributing cheap bottom 6 players.

 

[ManVanFan]

Highest upside that could be expected (and this is beginning optomistic) is Blueger type player. Decision making, play reading and motor seem chief attributes.

According to all accounts, he has shown progression as he has moved up. And that's the key. You just can't plateau. Biggest and most obvious question, now, is can he progress to the pro game.

I watched 3 Omaha games this year and it's hard to say what to expect from him. He wasn't engaged all that often, an opportunistic scorer. Good tools and but if he could have been engaged like Gaudette was in college, would be talking about legit NHL upside IMO.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Mueller...

Mueller...

Something...ion...bias

Confirmation...bias

 

[credulous]

Reading through the Mueller thread after he was drafted.

Equal parts entertaining (at how many scouting experts we have in this fan base that had never seen the kid play or even heard of him, and nauseating.

If you’re bored and want to read some hot tales, there are plenty of them in here:

Prospect Info: - Ty Mueller: 105th Overall 2023 Draft (Nebraska-Omaha) - C

Really depends on what that means to Allvin. It might mean something else for someone else. Do you take a guy that has a lot of speed but no IQ or hands? Do you take a huge guy that has skating issues? Do you take a 5'8 or 5'7 forward that scores a lot? One thing I want the Canucks to do in...

forums.hfboards.com

people love to big brain this shit. the same people who think max sasson is a scouting coup think ty mueller was a wasted pick when the fact is ty mueller had a far superior ncaa career

 

[LemonSauceD]

Hoping Sasson or Mueller turn into a Ross Colton for us

 

[VanJack]

I suppose the 'positive thing' is that the Canucks are actually signing some of their later round draft picks. During the Benning era, it was basically a black hole after round #3.

Makes you wonder where the Canuck prospect pool would rank if they'd actually kept more of their first and second rounders in 2020-24.

 

[MS]

Reading through the Mueller thread after he was drafted.

Equal parts entertaining (at how many scouting experts we have in this fan base that had never seen the kid play or even heard of him, and nauseating.

If you’re bored and want to read some hot tales, there are plenty of them in here:

Prospect Info: - Ty Mueller: 105th Overall 2023 Draft (Nebraska-Omaha) - C

Really depends on what that means to Allvin. It might mean something else for someone else. Do you take a guy that has a lot of speed but no IQ or hands? Do you take a huge guy that has skating issues? Do you take a 5'8 or 5'7 forward that scores a lot? One thing I want the Canucks to do in...

forums.hfboards.com

Anyways, congrats to the kid.
It seems like these are the types of picks good organizations turn into contributing cheap bottom 6 players.

That thread is a tire fire and it’s amazing how the Alex Mallet pick 12 years ago continues to traumatize this fanbase and cause these sorts of insane reactions as soon as the word ‘overage’ is mentioned.

 

[RobertKron]

I suppose the 'positive thing' is that the Canucks are actually signing some of their later round draft picks. During the Benning era, it was basically a black hole after round #3.

Makes you wonder where the Canuck prospect pool would rank if they'd actually kept more of their first and second rounders in 2020-24.

Huh?

From round 4 and beyond, the Canucks signed Stewart from 2014, Gaudette and Jasek from 2015, Rathbone and Palmu from 2017, Focht, Silovs, Plasek, and MacDonough from 2019, and Zlodeyev from 2020 is on the farm team.

 

[StreetHawk]

I suppose the 'positive thing' is that the Canucks are actually signing some of their later round draft picks. During the Benning era, it was basically a black hole after round #3.

Makes you wonder where the Canuck prospect pool would rank if they'd actually kept more of their first and second rounders in 2020-24.

I did see Jack Malone, their 6th rounder in 2019 score the OT winner for Boston College to send them into the Frozen 4. He went to Cornell, but due to Covid had to return to the USHL in what would have been his sophomore year. Did 3 years at Cornell then transferred to BC. Bested everything offensively with 12 G and 13 A for 25 points. Born in NJ, if he does sign a pro deal, most likely with a Metro division team.

 

[Vector]

No. Once they finish college they become free agents. The idea to draft him now is to get more control over development and first crack at signing them.

Or biggest or fastest or...something. Although of the two overage centres this is the one more likely to have a professional career according to EP.

Hey, I was kinda right about the reasoning behind drafting him!

 

[sting101]

people love to big brain this shit. the same people who think max sasson is a scouting coup think ty mueller was a wasted pick when the fact is ty mueller had a far superior ncaa career

Sasson had the same amount of points in 25 less games..... do explain?

 

[credulous]

Sasson had the same amount of points in 25 less games..... do explain?

sasson was already 21 when he played his first ncaa game. ty mueller turned 21 a month ago

 

[VanJack]

I guess one positive is that he's a natural center, and you can never have enough organizational depth at that position.

But looking at his stats on Hockey DB, it's hard not to be underwhelmed. In two seasons in the AJHL he never even broke the 10-goal mark, although it appears he was hurt for most of his second season. Frankly it's a little baffling that he was even able to earn an NCAA hockey scholarship.

But his numbers improved every year with the U of Nebraska-Omaha.....although not once did he break through the 30-point plateau. I guess you have to hope for is that the Canuck scouts were encouraged enough with his progress to offer him an ELC for a reason.

 

[tradervik]

sasson was already 21 when he played his first ncaa game. ty mueller turned 21 a month ago

Mueller started university at 18 years of age? Interesting.

 

[MS]

But looking at his stats on Hockey DB, it's hard not to be underwhelmed. In two seasons in the AJHL he never even broke the 10-goal mark, although it appears he was hurt for most of his second season. Frankly it's a little baffling that he was even able to earn an NCAA hockey scholarship.

His draft year in 20-21 was the shortened COVID year and his 8 goals in 15 games was literally the highest total for any 2003-born player in the AJHL that year.