Balls Mahoney
2015-2016 HF Premier League World Champion
I was just reading through a thread in the NHL forum talking about what team's have the most of their 1st round picks playing for them. With trading Kesler, the only 1st round picks we have playing on this team are the Sedins and quasi-Jensen. That's absolutely pathetic.
None of our draft picks from the last three years have played a NHL game, only 37 total NHL games have been played from our picks in the last five years. And only 92 total in the last seven years. In the last seven years this team hasn't been able to develop one of it's picks into a full time NHL player. Thank goodness for the signing of Chris Tanev or this would be even more laughable.
We are by far the worse team in the league at developing NHLers and this was the biggest failure of the Gillis Administration.
This has been a problem through the organization's history but was alleviated for awhile when we had a quasi-NHL team in the Moose developing and churning out young prospects for the team. But since the Canucks shifted around affiliates and largely seem to have no idea what they're doing, the pipeline of good surprisingly undrafted prospects has dried up.
I know Canucks fans are excited about all our draft picks but if they aren't being developed properly and won't make an impact, I fail to see what it accomplishes other than hindering young promising careers.
None of our draft picks from the last three years have played a NHL game, only 37 total NHL games have been played from our picks in the last five years. And only 92 total in the last seven years. In the last seven years this team hasn't been able to develop one of it's picks into a full time NHL player. Thank goodness for the signing of Chris Tanev or this would be even more laughable.
We are by far the worse team in the league at developing NHLers and this was the biggest failure of the Gillis Administration.
This has been a problem through the organization's history but was alleviated for awhile when we had a quasi-NHL team in the Moose developing and churning out young prospects for the team. But since the Canucks shifted around affiliates and largely seem to have no idea what they're doing, the pipeline of good surprisingly undrafted prospects has dried up.
I know Canucks fans are excited about all our draft picks but if they aren't being developed properly and won't make an impact, I fail to see what it accomplishes other than hindering young promising careers.