Player Discussion Urho Vaakanainen

[Anaheim4ever]

Has impressed me. With this team he's probably gonna be playing in the top4 next season unless they acquire someone thru trade.

 

[DavidBL]

Very average mediocre in every sense of the word. I guess with this team thats a compliment

What exactly makes you say that?

 

[Arthuros]

What exactly makes you say that?

Vaaks doesn't hit, that's literally all there is to it.

 

[bsu]

Vaks gap control seems really damn good in the games thus far. He is a pretty unnoticeable player but you need guys like that, ones that make the right play and rarely make mistakes. I think he becomes at #3-#4 personally if he's paired with the right person. He's the reverse Jamie Drysdale boring and never makes mistakes while Drysdale is high event hockey at both ends.....

 

[Leonardo87]

Would roll..

Fowler - Sister
Vaak - Shatty
Benoit - Drysdale

Rest of the season.

 

[JabbaJabba]

There's still time for him to learn to become physical and develop his overall game. He has played just 35 games in the NHL.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

I think he's been fine? He's got great speed, seems to have good defensive instincts, seems strong on the boards. I think I've only seen him screw up a couple times but I think those were attributable to him assuming that other players would do what they were supposed to do.

At this point I feel like he could be a pretty solid low maintenance minute-eater.

 

[FiveHoleTickler]

Vaks gap control seems really damn good in the games thus far. He is a pretty unnoticeable player but you need guys like that, ones that make the right play and rarely make mistakes. I think he becomes at #3-#4 personally if he's paired with the right person. He's the reverse Jamie Drysdale boring and never makes mistakes while Drysdale is high event hockey at both ends.....

Yeah, he does all the little things that you don't really see unless you're paying attention.

 

[barriers]

It's been a month with no updates at all unless I missed something. Was the injury even even named or is it just some vague upper and/or lower body-injury?

 

[Gliff]

It's been a month with no updates at all unless I missed something. Was the injury even even named or is it just some vague upper and/or lower body-injury?

Concussion.

 

[pbgoalie]

As good as Lindholm is/was, I was leary of a long term deal with his injury history.

Amazing we traded for a young guy with a bad injury history while “looking towards the future”

 

[Hockey Duckie]

As good as Lindholm is/was, I was leary of a long term deal with his injury history.

Amazing we traded for a young guy with a bad injury history while “looking towards the future”

Vaaks got wrecked earlier in the season up in the NHL with Boston. Upon recovery, he then got sent back down to the AHL and not seen again. That was his second concussion. We still traded for him knowing that. Guess it was a gamble that Verbeek took. It's not looking great now. And with this third concussion, I dunno if I can expect him not to incur another concussion. I know our previous GM would have stayed away from Vaaks b/c of what transpired with Kase.

Wait... is this payback for us trading them Kase?

 

[Mr Rogers]

the last i can remember hearing anything about him was like 3 weeks ago from Dillman. I think she had a tiny blurb in one of her articles saying he's nowhere close. the lack of updates probably has meant that his condition hasn't changed and he's not anywhere close to being back in action.

 

[MMC]

Hasn’t been talked about as much as some other guys, but he’s another who has looked much better this season than last. Still probably gets surpassed by our more talented D, maybe we can trade him for a winger

 

[DuckDuckGetz]

Hasn’t been talked about as much as some other guys, but he’s another who has looked much better this season than last. Still probably gets surpassed by our more talented D, maybe we can trade him for a winger

Agreed. I think the injuries have really limited the player he could become but I think he's been serviceable

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

Hasn’t been talked about as much as some other guys, but he’s another who has looked much better this season than last. Still probably gets surpassed by our more talented D, maybe we can trade him for a winger

What doesnt get talked about much is.. Everyone is looking better on this team.. You wanna guess why? Because we have a coach that knows wtf hes doing lol

 

[Ducksforcup]

He's a servicable depth player I think. Won't likely ever be a world beater, but he doesn't need to be.

 

[ADHB]

It's not a big surprise, or at least it shouldn't be. He looked perfectly fine, and everyone was reasonably enthused about him based on his play after we acquired him. We really haven't seen him since that season, with all the injuries.

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

What doesnt get talked about much is.. Everyone is looking better on this team.. You wanna guess why? Because we have a coach that knows wtf hes doing lol

Happened with a lot of guys who left the ducks as well.

Just look at Mahura in Florida.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

Happened with a lot of guys who left the ducks as well.

Just look at Mahura in Florida.

Oh yah for sure

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Happened with a lot of guys who left the ducks as well.

Just look at Mahura in Florida.

Mahura is maybe the worst possible example. He's the exact same player.

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

Mahura is maybe the worst possible example. He's the exact same player

Nah he was bad bad in Anaheim. In Florida he's at least serviceable.

 

[Goose of Reason]

Nah he was bad bad in Anaheim. In Florida he's at least serviceable.

He averages 12 minutes a night and is the only minus defender on the Panthers. He's not good.

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

He averages 12 minutes a night and is the only minus defender on the Panthers. He's not good.

Its been like two weeks, lol.

He was the Panthers second best plus minus last year if thats how you want to look at things.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Its been like two weeks, lol.

He was the Panthers second best plus minus last year if thats how you want to look at things.

He produces the same, he plays the same, he's an ok bottom pairing defender with a lot of flaws which is what he was here. Pick almost any other ex-Duck to make this point