2019 Draft Central

Welcome to Canucks Army’s 2019 Draft Countdown. Over the next four weeks leading up to the draft, we’ll be rounding up scouting reports, quotes, and videos about our Top-100 prospects available. Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Ethan Keppen, Samuel Fagemo, Arvid Costmar, Gianni Fairbrother, and Reece Newkirk.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Antti Saarela, Matej Blumel, John Farinacci, Eric Ciccolini, and Nikita Alexandrov. 

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Roman Bychkov, Justin Bergeron, Martin Hugo Has, Cole Mackay and Matvei Guskov.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Dustin Wolf, Harrison Blaisdell, Leevi Aaltonen, Judd Caufield, and Lucas Feuk.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Nicholas Porco, Yegor Serdyuk, Jackson LaCombe, Tuukka Tieksola, and Alex Beaucage.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Colten Ellis, Nikola Pasic, John Beecher, Cole Moberg, and Jamieson Rees.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Karl Henriksson, Billy Constantinou, Vladislav Kolyachonok, Antti Tuomisto, and Brayden Tracey.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Sasha Mutala, Vladislav Firstov, Henri Nikkanen, Jake Lee, and Trent Miner.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Daniil Gutik, Case McCarthy, Drew Helleson, Artemi Knyazev, and Jordan Spence.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Henry Thrun, Warren Marshall, Dillon Hamaliuk, Robert Mastrosimone, and Michal Teply.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Mikko Kokkonen, Mads Søgaard, Ryan Johnson, Nolan Foote, and Maxim Cajkovic.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Patrik Puistola, Albin Grewe, Ilya Nikolayev, Isaiah Saville, and Tobias Bjornfot.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Nicholas Robertson, Lassi Thomson, Kaedan Korczak, Anttoni Honka, and Yegor Afanasyev.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Yegor Spiridonov, Brett Leason, Nathan Légaré, Spencer Knight, and Thomas Harley.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Nils Hoglander, Ville Heinola Arthur Kaliyev, Alex Vlasic, and Pavel Dorofeyev.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Simon Holmstrom, Bobby Brink, Jakob Pelletier, Samuel Poulin, and Philip Tomasino.

Here are aggregated profiles on 2019 Draft Countdown: Cole Caufield, Philip Broberg, Alex Newhook, Raphael Lavoie, and Connor McMichael. 

With all the glamour that surrounds the top of the NHL draft, many quality players who go later on don’t get the attention they deserve. As important as day one is to building a Stanley Cup contender, mid-round picks can change the fortunes of an NHL franchise just as much. Hitting on just one or two players deep into the draft can accelerate any teams ambitions tenfold. Read more… 

Which brings us to the 2019 NHL draft class. Today I will be laying out which eligible players rank among the best of their peers in the four aforementioned skills. Breaking down these four components, the following is what I search for (although not limited to) when evaluating each skill:

SKATING	TOP-SPEED, EDGE WORK, FIRST-STEP, ELUSIVENESS, EXPLOSIVENESS, AGILITY, LATERAL MOVEMENT, ESCAPE-ABILITY, STRIDE, CHANGING GEARS WITH THE PUCK, BACKWARDS SKATING
PLAYMAKING	VISION, PASS EXECUTION, UNPREDICTABILITY, RECOGNIZING/CREATING SPACE
PUCK SKILLS	CREATIVITY, STICK-HANDLING, HAND-SPEED, DECEPTIVENESS, PUCK CONTROL, HANDLING THE PUCK IN-TIGHT
SHOT	ACCURACY, POWER/VELOCITY, RELEASE, SHOT VOLUME, PROFICIENCY IN SHOT TYPE (WRIST SHOT, SLAP SHOT, BACKHAND, BAD ANGLE, NET-FRONT, ETC.)

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