Prospect Info: Vancouver Canucks Top 25 Prospects 2015 - #18

[Nuckles]

It's that time of year again! The HF Vancouver Canucks board will be ranking the team's top 25 prospects (including the 2015 draft selections). Polls will be left open for 24 hours.

Feel free to explain your choices and suggest who should be added to the list for the next poll.

Rank | Player | POS | HT | WT | DOB | 2014 Rank | Poll%
1| Jake Virtanen |RW|6.01|207|Aug 17, 1996|2 (↑1)| 80.00%
2| Jared McCann |C|6.00|185|May 31, 1996|6 (↑4)| 68.21%
3| Brock Boeser |RW|6.00|191|Feb 25, 1997|Not Ranked| 57.14%
4| Thatcher Demko |G|6.04|195|Dec 8, 1995|10 (↑6)| 48.87%
5| Cole Cassels |C|6.00|180|May 4, 1995|12 (↑7)| 51.45%
6| Hunter Shinkaruk |LW|5.11|180|Oct 13, 1994|3 (↓3)| 58.67%
7| Brendan Gaunce |C/W|6.02|207|Mar 25, 1994|5 (↓2)| 34.59%
8| Ronalds Kenins |LW|6.00|201|Feb 28, 1991|17 (↑9)| 38.96%
9| Frank Corrado |D|6.00|190|Mar 26, 1993|7 (↓2)| 53.59%
10| Adam Clendening |D|6.00|190|Oct 26, 1992|Not Ranked| 26.06%
11| Ben Hutton |D|6.03|200|Apr 20, 1993|9 (↓2)| 27.48%
12| Jordan Subban |D|5.09|185|Mar 3, 1995|15 (↑3)| 32.76%
13| Guillaume Brisebois |D|6.02|175|Jul 21, 1997|Not Ranked| 38.46%
14| Alexandre Grenier |RW|6.05|200|Sep 5, 1991|20 (↑6)| 39.81%
15| Andrey Pedan |D|6.05|215|Jul 3, 1993|Not Ranked| 54.62%
16| Dmitri Zhukenov |C|5.11|170|Mar 24, 1997|Not Ranked| 33.33%
17| Nikita Tryamkin |D|6.07|228|Aug 30, 1994|14 (↓3)| 43.97%
18|???|???|???|???|???|???| ???

*Please note that only players that Hockey's Future considers to be prospects will be included, meaning Horvat, Baertschi, Vey, and Markstrom will be excluded from voting.

2014 ranking: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1719893
2013 ranking: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1486113

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[Nuckles]

Jensen. I will completely give up on him if he's still this bad on his final year of his ELC.

 

[Thad Castle]

Jasek

 

[VC]

Voted Jasek, shiny and new.

Jensen. I will completely give up on him if he's still this bad on his final year of his ELC.

You mean pull a Grenier?

 

[iceburg]

Jasek....voting remaining potential rather than false hope of regaining potential

 

[Verviticus]

tryamkin won at 44%

 

[Nuckles]

tryamkin won at 44%

Derp, I knew I was forgetting something. Gracias.

 

[Nucker101]

Jasek easily

 

[Jimson Hogarth*]

Jensen, then Jasek then McEneny, to round out the top 20, then Cederholm, then Stewart

 

[Love]

Cederholmes

 

[biturbo19]

Jensen. I will completely give up on him if he's still this bad on his final year of his ELC.

Pretty much.

I vote Jensen here, it's not exactly stiff competition at the moment.


But he needs a real "come to Jesus" moment this summer, and to come into camp with a totally different lease on life and career. If he can just realize that his talent alone is going to see him washed out back to Europe next year...and that some energy, work, and commitment is needed to reshape his game as a viable bottom-6 option, he can still be something.

He needs to see what Grenier did this year to pull himself from the fires of "non-prospect" right back into the realm of "call-up option" and "camp darkhorse". And emulate that transformation Grenier started to make.

Jensen may not be 6'5", but he's still got real good size, can really move when he seems so inclined, can "rip the puck" at an NHL level, and is honestly just a more skilled player than Grenier. It's all on his attitude, conditioning, and just general approach to the game...and whether he can show some fire this season.

If he doesn't make radical changes to his game this year though...he pretty much drops right off the list entirely, and i'd expect him to be back in Europe immediately.

 

[vancityluongo]

Dane Fox. Looked really promising as a signing last season before being marginalized and sent to the ECHL this year. Think he has at least a shot at still being a scrap bin version of Andrew Shaw.

 

[biturbo19]

Dane Fox. Looked really promising as a signing last season before being marginalized and sent to the ECHL this year. Think he has at least a shot at still being a scrap bin version of Andrew Shaw.

He's just got so much work to do on his skating. Just hard to see him coming from "can't hack it in the AHL" to "NHL calibre skater" at this stage in the game. But he's at least got that high quality shot to fall back on. May still carve out a good solid AHL career one day.

 

[vancityluongo]

He's just got so much work to do on his skating. Just hard to see him coming from "can't hack it in the AHL" to "NHL calibre skater" at this stage in the game. But he's at least got that high quality shot to fall back on. May still carve out a good solid AHL career one day.

Fair enough. I've never watched Jasek play (duh) and Jensen sucked so much he was a healthy scratch despite "first round pick pedigree" that Fox was never afforded.

Fox's saving grace may be that he can "rip the puck" - by now we all know how much management loves that. You're right, probably not an NHL player ever...but no one left on this list really is.

 

[biturbo19]

Fair enough. I've never watched Jasek play (duh) and Jensen sucked so much he was a healthy scratch despite "first round pick pedigree" that Fox was never afforded.

Fox's saving grace may be that he can "rip the puck" - by now we all know how much management loves that. You're right, probably not an NHL player ever...but no one left on this list really is.

Yeah. At this point, it's a pick'em really.

Which misfit would you most like to hitch your wagon to!!!


Fox's shot is definitely a thing that could matter. But without the skating, it's just so hard to see him even posting a half-assed 15g seasons back to back in the AHL.

I mean, they're cruddy seasons for Jensen, the lack of progression is alarming...but he still has as good a shot as Fox, he's a good deal bigger, he's a massively superior skater...he's got everything going for him. At this point...it's really just about attitude...as much as people hate that platitude on draft day.

I do think it's worth considering that Jensen isn't still only like half a year older than Fox at this point.

 

[bossram]

Been voting Jasek for a while. He's a guy who played in a men's league for the entire season at age 17. That's an encouraging sign.

 

[Zarpan]

Went with Jensen since he does have some talent, and I wouldn't quite have traded him for a 6th round pick in the 2015 draft.

Not very impressed with the fact that he's barely progressed over four years though. I'd certainly have taken a 4th round pick for him.

 

[GJB]

Is Peter Andersson still a Canucks' prospect?

 

[FroshaugFan2]

Is Peter Andersson still a Canucks' prospect?

Nope, he wasn't qualified this summer.

 

[Nuckles]

Is Peter Andersson still a Canucks' prospect?

Nope, we didn't qualify him so he's currently a UFA.

 

[Proto]

Jasek here. People are overrating Jensen

 

[Siludin]

Been voting Jasek for a while. He's a guy who played in a men's league for the entire season at age 17. That's an encouraging sign.

My thoughts essentially. He has good size, he lit it up in international competitions, and he's one of the youngest players currently drafted. If Czech/Slovak hockey weren't in such disarray relative to their glory years, I think Jasek would have been a first round pick. Compare him to a guy like Adrian Kempe who was drafted 29th the year before. I don't really think they are six rounds apart.

 

[y2kcanucks]

Jasek.

I really don't consider Jensen a prospect anymore. He's a bust.

 

[Proto]

Went with Jensen since he does have some talent, and I wouldn't quite have traded him for a 6th round pick in the 2015 draft.

Not very impressed with the fact that he's barely progressed over four years though. I'd certainly have taken a 4th round pick for him.

Fair enough. I would take a 6th for him, but he'll be useful winger depth in Utica at least. That has some organizational value, I suppose.

 

[y2kcanucks]

Fair enough. I would take a 6th for him, but he'll be useful winger depth in Utica at least. That has some organizational value, I suppose.

I remember a few years ago when people didn't want to move Jensen at the 2013 trade deadline to help the team for a playoff run. My how things have changed.