Vancouver Canucks 2016 Top 25 Prospects - #4

[Saturated Fats]

POLL #3 (103 total votes)
Thatcher Demko - 59 votes
Jake Virtanen - 43 votes
Nikita Tryamkin - 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%

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[M2Beezy]

Gaudette

 

[Saturated Fats]

Has to be Virtanen here, one would think? Even with a few 'conscientious objectors'?

 

[Intoewsables]

I'm interested to see who gets picked after Virtanen. There definitely seems to be a drop off after the top-4. Tryamkin?

 

[Saturated Fats]

I'm interested to see who gets picked after Virtanen. There definitely seems to be a drop off after the top-4. Tryamkin?

It's significant, yeah. I think you'll see Tryamkin, and then it'll be some amalgamation of Subban, Stecher, Gaunce and Brisebois after that.

Or I may just be projecting my rankings onto the poll, I don't know.

 

[bossram]

Our prospect pool honestly looks pretty awful. After JV (who I am not even a huge fan of) there is not much to really get excited about.

 

[JA]

I nominate Jakob Stukel to be added to the list of poll options.

 

[OzFlyers]

Just wondering. Why is Jake Virtanen still considered a prospect when he played 55 games with the Canucks last season??

 

[clunk]

Just wondering. Why is Jake Virtanen still considered a prospect when he played 55 games with the Canucks last season??

http://www.hockeysfuture.com/whatmakesaprospect/

 

[OzFlyers]

http://www.hockeysfuture.com/whatmakesaprospect/

10 games! So basicly 3 good prospects.

 

[clunk]

10 games!

NOTE: These are general guidelines and should be followed the majority of the time but certain players may still be listed as prospects if circumstances warrant. Also, for players that are close to either the 65-game (skaters) or 45-game (goaltenders) benchmark but have also clearly "arrived" as NHL players, HF reserves the right to remove these players from consideration as prospects and instead consider these players graduated.

So it can definitely be debated... But I don't think personally Virtanen has really 'Arrived' as an NHL player yet.

 

[banme*]

My boy virt is going to prove the doubters wrong. Behind Demko lol.

 

[Cancuks]

Where's Lukas Jasek? Dmitri Zhukenov?

 

[Catamarca Livin]

Our prospect pool honestly looks pretty awful. After JV (who I am not even a huge fan of) there is not much to really get excited about.

tryamkin? I think he would be worth a late first now to the Canucks. The top 5 is very good after that nothing much. Tryamkin has huge upside and has been progressing quickly every year. I think he has as much potential as Hutton moving from 17 to 5 on our prospect list is huge. Where was Hutton last year

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

It bad I liked our prospect pool much better this time last year? Looked so much deeper with Hutton, McCann, and Shinkaruk.

 

[Cupless44]

Just wondering. Why is Jake Virtanen still considered a prospect when he played 55 games with the Canucks last season??

Because he is still only 19 and wasn't really given a big role, I think he could still be considered a prospect.

 

[Saturated Fats]

Where's Lukas Jasek? Dmitri Zhukenov?

Keeping it to 10 options, so the poll doesn't become too convoluted.

 

[ChilliBilly]

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Keeping it to 10 options, so the poll doesn't become too convoluted.

could call this one early. No way the results are going to change. Tryamkin then stukel for me.

 

[CanaFan]

It bad I liked our prospect pool much better this time last year? Looked so much deeper with Hutton, McCann, and Shinkaruk.

Well Hutton grad'ed which is what you want out of a prospect. The McCann trade pisses me off but he'd have moved off the list either way (played 69 NHL games). Shinkaruk being moved def stings though. Can't think of a more useless trade since ... oh who am I kidding, probably not that long ago. Damn.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Well Hutton grad'ed which is what you want out of a prospect. The McCann trade pisses me off but he'd have moved off the list either way (played 69 NHL games). Shinkaruk being moved def stings though. Can't think of a more useless trade since ... oh who am I kidding, probably not that long ago. Damn.

Yeah, I have no problem with Hutton, that's just a complaint born out of aesthetics. I think he's really underrated around here and see a whole lot of offensive potential in him.

McCann trade sucks but I think he was moving off the team one way or another, I just wish we moulded him into something so we could get some more value back.

Shinkaruk trade is purposeless. I honestly have no idea where Granlund goes in this organization in the big picture. Unless Bo implodes or Sutter's career magically de-rails. He's not going to grow at C. And I haven't really seen enough of him on wing to say he's anything more than a bottom 6 guy.

Wow. That trade pisses me off the more I think about it.

 

[McHortton]

#5 is where it gets difficult.

 

[Scholarships]

I had Virtanen at #3 so him

 

[Red]

Add Candella

 

[Hammer79]

It gets less predictable after #4.

 

[Braeden]

Virtanen even though I don't consider him a prospect spending the whole season up with the big club..