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Today we’re going over The Hockey News’ list of the top Vancouver Canucks prospects.
We’ll be talking about Aatu Raty, Jonathan Lekkerimaki, Nils Aman, Linus Karlsson, and Jack Rathbone, while giving honourable mentions to Danila Klimovich, Will Lockwood, Aiden McDonough, Arturs Silovs, and Filip Johansson.
This video is taking place after the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2022 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
29th) Arizona Coyotes (from Edmonton Oilers), Maveric Lamoureux
30th) Winnipeg Jets (from New York Rangers), Brad Lambert
31st) Tampa Bay Lightning, Isaac Howard
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Colorado Avalanche via Arizona Coyotes), Reid Schaefer
This video is also taking place after 2023 NHL Season, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers in the Finals.
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3 Comments
Silovs should be way higher. Maybe even #1
Klim right now imo is the hard #1 prospect. His improvements and trajectory are showing an NHL, bottom 6, power forward with a great shot. For this organization that's a home run. Silovs and Hoglander round out the top 3.
The clock is ticking on a lot of these guys. I expect Nils Aman to be in the NHL full time as the 4th line centre this coming year, but Raty and Rathbone are at ages where they'd better figure things out pretty soon, or they're just going to be AHL lifers who get the odd call up – Rathbone especially. Sure, a player can be a late bloomer and break through at 25, but after that you're pretty much a depth call up option at best. We'll see if Lekkerimakki was truly BPA, but I find it hard to believe that a smaller, one dimensional sniping winger was indeed that. His numbers were good going into the draft, but you have to be careful with pre-draft numbers. The SHL and the SEL are, to my knowledge, still 2 different leagues. I wouldn't pay a 1st for any of those guys on that list and since Jonathan was literally a 1st round pick, that's not a great sign. I don't even see any one of them as a decent enough sweetener to get rid of a contract like Pearson's.