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Originally Posted by R0taryRocket
Not much of anything has materialized in 2009 for any team picking that low in the draft. Trading Grabner/1st round pick for Keith Ballard in 2010 was the bust.
Vancouver won the president' trophy twice and their division a number of times between 2008-2013. The fact that Vancouver has anything in the prospect pool with some bad trades and low draft picks is pleasantly surprising.
I'm sticking with my season's tickets (Vancouver), so my money is where my mouth is. I like the moves Calgary has made in their rebuild. I look forward to 2-3 years when both teams are (hopefully) competing for something other than the toilet bowl.
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+1 to you for sticking around. However, "we drafted low" is a copout. Drafting top ten every year is not by itself the way to keep a positive talent flow. For us, guys like Monahan and Bennett are huge pieces. But we're also counting on late first rounders (Poirier, Klimchuk) and mid-rounders (Wotherspoon, Granlund, Gaudreau, Gillies, Ortio - even Brodie and Bouma) to become solid building blocks.
I won't claim to have a deep understanding of your prospects, but what I do know, coupled with some of the online reviews I am finding gives me pause. After your top two (pre-draft; Shinkaruk and Horvat), it looks like most of the prospects you do have project to "average, at best":
http://www.hockeyprospectus.com/puck...articleid=1580
http://www.hockeysfuture.com/teams/vancouver_canucks/
The Canucks need a couple of these C-level prospects to make quantum leaps. Or they need to find Giordano-like finds among undrafted players if they hope to avoid falling into the pit Calgary did.