[Canucks] “Two years ago, there wasn’t really hard decisions. Now there are…Guys are pushing for jobs.” Coach Tocchet discusses today’s rosters updates and the team’s focus in the final days leading into the regular season.

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  3. I get that’s it’s extremely easy to overrate current prospects, but it’s insane how quickly our mid-late round drafting turned around since Benning. Like under Benning we only had ONE pick after the 2nd round become a 100-game NHL player (Gaudette) since 2015. Hell, only one 2nd round pick really worked out (Hoggy). That’s a horrible track record.

    Now, I know that most of these guys will inevitably flame out before hitting the NHL but in two drafts (compared to the previous six for Benning) we picked up players like D-Petey, Mynio, Kudryavtsev, Brzustewicz (RIP), Alriksson and Mueller from the mid-late rounds. I’d guarantee we get more than one 100-game NHL player from that list.

    Edit: Did forget our boy Silovs, but even that’s more on Ian Clark’s autonomy

  5. Allvin has really come in and worked overtime creating a winning organization from top to bottom. When you look at what Benning left him, he’s done so well. A year ago, waiving PDG would have been insane! Now we have more depth than we can keep on the roster. Great problem to have.

  7. As much as I secretly wanted Lekkerimaki to make it, it was the right decision to send him down for some time to cook in the AHL

  8. Where can we find these clips that aren’t on twitter?

    I used to see them on youtube and such, but this one isn’t even on the Nucks website.

    I’m tired of twitter’s crappy player and everything else. I just want Canucks news and vids without that shit site.

  9. Gotta give props to management for turning Abby around too. Our farm teams were trash at development before Rutherford/Alvin were handed the reins

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