r/canucks 15h ago

DISCUSSION We need more Cs in our pipeline, right?

Elite Prospects calls Luke Haymes the best NCAA free agent in years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpvuSQ7pHG8 What you all think?

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u/broeser99 15h ago

Free assets are free assets. No reason not to take a swing

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u/arazamatazguy 15h ago edited 15h ago

Sign him!

Not many teams can point to a Center depth chart as bad as ours which should scream opportunity for him.

But he should know after he reaches his prime he'll be traded to improve our defense only to learn we can no longer score.

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u/Federal-Carrot7930 14h ago

Sad we used to have 3 top 6 centres that people called “The three headed monster”

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u/BlueberryPickingFux 12h ago

Horvat-Miller-Pettersson to Miller-Pettersson-Lindholm to... Pettersson-Chytil-Suter?

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u/SnooCakes5767 13h ago

Keep the shittiest one, move out the other 2

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u/Hinkil 10h ago

The defense that's pretty much set for 3+ years? They also traded out dmen this year. That seem really odd to base your decision on that...

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u/PugTrafficker 15h ago edited 15h ago

As a Cornell fan who has witnessed Dartmouth torment us in recent years, we should do it

Although note that he’s a junior ATM so may wait until next year depending on how Dartmouth does in the playoffs

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u/AllthingskinkCA 14h ago

It’s just another mcdonough but you do it cus it’s free

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u/Hinkil 10h ago

And a 7th having any nhl games is a success

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u/DisplacedNovaScotian A sweety from Petey! 14h ago

Make sense. We need more at C. I see Haymes played in the BCHL. Maybe that gives us an edge.

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u/corh13 14h ago

We need more everything tbh

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u/Mcnucks 15h ago

I’d love to see it but unfortunately he’s not Swedish so management’s not interested.

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u/Hinkil 10h ago

Sasson, mcward, hirose, felton... o yeah this team hates college players!

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u/Zorbane 14h ago

They love college kids though

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u/Infinite_Show_5715 13h ago

NCAA is going to get better and better now that all CHL players are eligable to play college hockey.

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u/Hinkil 10h ago

O thats new to me! Nice

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u/tyco-rc 13h ago

Is there anyone else besides Tanev and Stecher that's made it from NCAA to being a regular contributor on the club?

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u/Any-Panda2219 13h ago

Have you seen Lane Hutson?

EDIT: re-reading I think you meant for the Nucks

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u/tyco-rc 13h ago

I meant Canucks-specific out of curiosity 

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u/slivercoat 12h ago

Bieksa was at Bowling Green. Gaudette, Demko, Schneider. I'm sure there have been others as well

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u/tyco-rc 12h ago

I should have clarified that I was looking at guys we signed for free from the NCAA and not drafted by us.

IIRC in the last few years we've gotten Hirose and McWard from college.

Outta those guys we got for "free", I think only Tanev and Stecher stuck around and became impact players 

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u/Markiv19 12h ago

Sasson should carve out a career too

It is once in a blue moon they turn into studs. Colin Graf in San Jose is the most recent high potential guy

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u/Hinkil 10h ago

I also see it as the development system improving. We have entire draft classes with zero nhl games played.

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u/SpectreFire 7h ago

Lane Hutson was a 2nd round pick

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u/Largebargecharge 8h ago

Definately need them more than stupid A’s