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Prospect Info: Vancouver Canucks Top 25 Prospects 2015 - #20

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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% | Eyes?
1| Jake Virtanen |RW|6.01|207|Aug 17, 1996|2 (↑1)| 80.00% |Yes
2| Jared McCann |C|6.00|185|May 31, 1996|6 (↑4)| 68.21% |Yes
3| Brock Boeser |RW|6.00|191|Feb 25, 1997|Not Ranked| 57.14% |Yes
4| Thatcher Demko |G|6.04|195|Dec 8, 1995|10 (↑6)| 48.87% |Yes
5| Cole Cassels |C|6.00|180|May 4, 1995|12 (↑7)| 51.45% |Yes
6| Hunter Shinkaruk |LW|5.11|180|Oct 13, 1994|3 (↓3)| 58.67% |Yes
7| Brendan Gaunce |C/W|6.02|207|Mar 25, 1994|5 (↓2)| 34.59% |Yes
8| Ronalds Kenins |LW|6.00|201|Feb 28, 1991|17 (↑9)| 38.96% |Yes
9| Frank Corrado |D|6.00|190|Mar 26, 1993|7 (↓2)| 53.59% |Yes
10| Adam Clendening |D|6.00|190|Oct 26, 1992|Not Ranked| 26.06% |Yes
11| Ben Hutton |D|6.03|200|Apr 20, 1993|9 (↓2)| 27.48% |Yes
12| Jordan Subban |D|5.09|185|Mar 3, 1995|15 (↑3)| 32.76% |Yes
13| Guillaume Brisebois |D|6.02|175|Jul 21, 1997|Not Ranked| 38.46% |Yes
14| Alexandre Grenier |RW|6.05|200|Sep 5, 1991|20 (↑6)| 39.81% |Yes
15| Andrey Pedan |D|6.05|215|Jul 3, 1993|Not Ranked| 54.62% |Yes
16| Dmitri Zhukenov |C|5.11|170|Mar 24, 1997|Not Ranked| 33.33% |Yes
17| Nikita Tryamkin |D|6.07|228|Aug 30, 1994|14 (↓3)| 43.97% |Yes
18| Nicklas Jensen |RW|6.03|202|Mar 6, 1993|4 (↓14)| 58.88% |Yes
19| Lukas Jasek |RW|6.00|170|Aug 28, 1997|Not Ranked| 72.09% |Yes
20|???|???|???|???|???|???| ??? |Maybe

*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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TheWanderer

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Well, don't know what to say at this point. Career AHLers are of little interest, to be frank. We're looking for guys who really still could make the NHL.

A guy like McEneny is out for me. Career Minor Leaguer, IMO.

I think I have to go with Stewart or Fox, at this point. Fox still has that "what-if" quality, but I think we'll know about half way through the year, to be honest.
 
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TheWanderer said:
Well, don't know what to say at this point. Career AHLers are of little interest, to be frank. We're looking for guys who really still could make the NHL.

A guy like McEneny is out for me. Career Minor Leaguer, IMO.

I think I have to go with Stewart or Fox, at this point. Fox still has that "what-if" quality, but I think we'll know about half way through the year, to be honest.
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I don't understand the bolded unless I missed some sarcasm
 
TheWanderer

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I think we should go to 25, btw. Looking at 2013, numbers 21, 24, and 25 offer some fairly interesting outliers.

I'll do the rank changes from 2013 to 2014 then. Already started anyways. You can thank my OCD later.
 
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TheWanderer said:
Just because you never know. I guess. He's converted to forward, so there's that :dunno:
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Odd reasoning but whatever. I picked McEneny even though I'm not incredibly high on him. Could see him possibly being an NHLer but everyone is now a long shot. I agree that Fox is interesting and probably should have been in the AHL at least for half of the season. Same goes for Blomstrand.

Don't know what to really think of Gaudette or Neill but I would rather have the mystery box than the guaranteed loser in Stewart.
 
TheWanderer

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Oh 2013 had some funny rankings...

1. Bo Horvat
2. Hunter Sinkaruk
3. Frankie Corrado
4. Nicklas Jensen
5. Brendan Gaunce
6. Jordan Schroeder
7. Eddie Lack
8. Joacim Eriksson
9. Alexandre Mallet
10. Ben Hutton
11. Henrik Tommernes
12. Peter Andersson
13. Ludwig Blomstrand
14. Patrick McNally
15. Joe Cannata
16. Jordan Subban
17. Darren Archibald
18. Cole Cassels
19. Evan McEneny
20. Joseph Labate
21. Kellan Lain
22. Anton Cederholm
23. Adam Polasek
24. Alexandre Grenier
25. Ronalds Kenins


2014:
1. Bo Horvat (0)
2. Jake Virtanen (N/A)
3. Hunter Sinkaruk (-1)
4. Nicklas Jensen (0)
5. Brendan Gaunce (0)
6. Jared McCann (N/A)
7. Frankie Corrado (-4)
8. Linden Vey (N/A)
9. Ben Hutton (+1)
10. Thatcher Demko (N/A)
11. Dane Fox (N/A)
12. Cole Cassels (+6)
13. Joacim Eriksson (-5)
14. Nikita Tryamkin (N/A)
15. Jordan Subban (+1)
16. Evan McEneny (+3)
17. Ronalds Kenins (+8)
18. Micheal Zalewski (N/A)
19. Gustav Forsling (N/A)
20. Alexandre Grenier (+4)
21. Anton Cederholm (+1)
22. Kellan Lain (-1)
23. Darren Archibald (-6)
24. Patrick McNally (-10)
25. Joseph Labate (-5)


Kenins up 17 ranks since 2013 :laugh:

Cole Cassels and Nick Jensen have switched spots in 2 years.
 
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Art of Sedinery said:
I've seen it a lot around here. Not sure why Stewart gets so much hate compared to other lower end prospects???
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The comment is made because he is currently second in votes in this poll when he really shouldn't have any. Nobody is voting for Olsen (who I like better), Williamson or Beattie so nobody is talking about them going too high.
 

tonydif

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How Cederholm can play World Juniors yet not be selected in top 20 VAN prospects here is ridiculous

Hes a player
 

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Evan McEneny has shown projectable NHL size and all-around skills IMO in his ACL-torn junior career. The injury cost him a 2nd or 3rd round draft position, but at this late point in the rankings he's definitely a strong value pick. Now 6'2" and 215 pounds, with good two-way skills and a physical streak, he once was Frankie Corrado's D partner. These articles about him are at least somewhat intriguing:

http://vansunsportsblogs.com/2012/09/13/canucks-take-a-chance-on-evan-mceneny/

http://canucksarmy.com/2014/8/13/prospect-profile-18-evan-mceneny

If a guy like McEneny is *actually* our 20th-best prospect, I'd say we're doing pretty well. But IMO he's much better than 20th in actual NHL potential. However, that left side has a large crowd of applicants, and at this point it's unknown where McEneny fits in with Pedan, Hutton, Brisebois, Tryamkin, Sautner, Cederholm, and Olson. Or next season with Pedan, Hutton, Sautner, and Cederholm.
 

denkiteki

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Honestly out of all these prospects right now, i think McEneny has the best chance of making the NHL so i voted for him. It was really between him and Kyle Pettit who i think could be a bottom 6 forward for us in a few years if he continues to develop (given reports of his work ethic, no reason to doubt that). Of course its still debatable rather or not McEneny will even be in Utica next season...
 

Hodgy

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I picked Fox. His stock is obviously very low at the moment, but he has at least shown an ability to dominate at a lower level. Seems to have an elite shot.
 

CouverNucks

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Im going Stewart here. Ill take whatever hate is thrown at me but i have a gut feeling this guy figures it out. Big boy and a hard worker. Everyone who saw him at the prospects camp said how awesome he looked. Like the potential here
 
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