Quote (dej @ Jun 23 2014 11:42am)
have you watched ekblad play?
i firmly believe he's very much ready, however, canucks got pretty decent top4 if all are healthy
ekblad is as much of a need as reinhart, but the #1 is for ekblad basically
I haven't seen even 1 second of his play but I don't mind making the assumption that he'd wouldn't be great coming in at 18 years old.
And like you said, we have a decent top-4 already. I doubt he could crack ours, maybe a weaker team's.
Quote (dirTyMan @ Jun 23 2014 11:49am)
Canucks need to rebuild. Still cannot believe they're trying to win now.
Sell the team for futures , because the sedins are done. edler is trash. etc.
They probably want to but can't 'cause of all the NTCs.
Quote (StayPositive @ Jun 23 2014 11:49am)
Thing is that he was thought to be a top 5 pick, then all those teams passed on him in the first round. Must be a reason for that. Flames picked Poirier over Shinkaruk and it looks like a definite right choice at this point, 87 points in 63 games last year for Poirier, and who knows about Shinkaruk seeing as he was injured all year.
I read he was kind of cocky in his interviews
Hopefully it's just $wag