[Vancouver Canucks] #Canucks select a total of seven players in the 2023 #NHLDraft including Tom Willander, Hunter Brzustewicz, Sawyer Mynio, Ty Mueller, Vilmer Alriksson, Matthew Perkins, and Aiden Celebrini.
#Canucks select a total of seven players in the 2023 #NHLDraft including Tom Willander, Hunter Brzustewicz, Sawyer Mynio, Ty Mueller, Vilmer Alriksson, Matthew Perkins, and Aiden Celebrini.
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— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) June 29, 2023
by 21marvel1
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I don’t love all the picks, but I am a fan of stocking up on defense. There’s always seemingly a market for defense prospects, especially righties. Hopefully our bets pay off and we’ll see them with the big club in the future.
Very happy with the emphasis on D in the first 3 picks. Beyond that some odd choices and gambles, but that’s kind of the point of the deep rounds.
Lot of safe picks and hope that their development program works out. Not the best strategy when you’re 5th worst in the league by points percentage since 2015-16.
Alriksson as a 6’6″ LW is rad though, haha. Drafting a bunch of guys in the 3rd/4th that weren’t on anyone scouting sites draft boards is a big ol yikerino for me!
Fingers crossed!
I thought they did great actually getting RDs in the system
Those overager picks are definitely weird to me but what do I know the only players I know are from EHM
Good job getting for D into the system. I hope at least 1 of them works out.
Happy with the draft. Love the defenders taken. The 4th round with different but I wonder if it’s because they think the covid seasons impacted the development of some of these guys.
I’ve seen some critiques around the NCAA guys being a bit of projects/safe picks, but I know Scott Young is really we regarded in the college world so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt similar to Clark with goalies.
Overall I like that they were able to shore up premium positions like RHD/Centre, and even the winger they took is a giant.
Great picks. Most of the RHD all seem to be rated for a calm and collected game, and mostly need work on the puck handling.
It’s harder to teach the focus and being able to slow down the game and play a simple hockey game, and that’s the pairings we need for Quinn Hughes.
If one of these guys work out to be a good pairing for Quinn, then it’s all worth it. If two work out to be a good NHL RHD, then that’s a home run. IMO.
7 is the most number of players we’ve drafted since 2019, despite the team being in the bottom third of the league during that period.
Crazier is the fact that the Canucks have only drafted twice in the 1st round and once in the second round in the past 4 drafts despite having finished 17th, 24th, 18th, and 22nd.
I can be convinced on Willander. The BRZ pick is cool with high upside. I liked the positional focus on an area of need, but I really need to know the thought process behind everything that came later. I just feel we should have taken more home run swings rather than overagers. Does anyone have any good “drafted overager” stories to cheer us up?
Is that Macklin Celebrini’s brother?
Not the best draft when you consider this subreddit is powered by memes, but I guess there weren’t an Elias Petterssons available.
I trust this front office and their decision making, and more importantly, I trust that we have a development path now through Abby. You can draft all the talent you want but if there’s no trusted development plan, which we’ve lacked for almost a decade, there’s no point. This regime gets it.
I like it overall. Never a bad idea to make bets on a bunch of defenders. The only two question marks for me are drafting the overagers and not drafting a goalie. But who really knows. As with any draft, there will be some diamonds in the rough, and some players who disappoint. It’s so difficult to judge with any accuracy at this phase, even for professional scouts.
Look I’m not a professional scout and I’m happy to be wrong here hopefully in the future but if you compare what we’ve done in the past 5-10 years in the later rounds of the draft with an analytics-driven team like Carolina, who imo just had an absolutely insane draft and continue to every year, it’s fucking disappointing.
I liked our first two picks in this draft but man I just don’t understand why we keep drafting over agers with underwhelming statistical profiles. We’ve done this same strategy going back to the Gillis years and I just don’t understand. Once again I’m happy to be wrong but based on the last decade of Canucks drafting I highly doubt it and we keep doing it while there was still so much analytical favoured talent on the board.
Eric Tulsky has an amazing analytics-based scouting system going on in Carolina right now and I just feel like we are stun locked into an old-school hockey drafting strategy and we are being left behind.
Willander and the Celebrini brothers will be playing together next season at Boston University.
All part of the plan.
Better than this regime’s first draft IMO. I really like all three first picks. The others are kinda hopes and prayers as usual.
Honestly, rather keep and use the picks than trading for middle d-man
The one thing that will be interesting is if we start drafting better now that the development part of the organization has been beefed up. Plus the resources put into Abbotsford.
I like the Celebrini pick, Macklin should be a top pick next year, get the brother train rolling again
Grammar nitpick: you don’t need to say “including” when you list them all.
Just sooo meh 🫤
I’m actually getting kinda apathetic during this rebuild, 2016-now is becoming a joke. These guys being drafted were like 8-9 years old last time we had a fair competent roster in 2013. We’re gonna be like 3 years away ? At least right now? Why can’t this team just take some exciting guys that everyone likes. Why is it always going off the board or going for some extremely mid player. How do we not take ANY of the insane Vancouver talent from this year.