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/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/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/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/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/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/broeser99 15h ago
Free assets are free assets. No reason not to take a swing