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Scott Wheeler

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195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And currently, I was actually sort of just making some tweaks to my spreadsheet today for my list.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And currently, I do have Chase Reid third after the two wingers.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

But the group there is real.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And I like Carson Carls.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I like Albert Smith, who you didn't mention.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I'm a little lower on Keaton Verhoff than at least the public sphere seems to have been over the course of the last two years.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I started raising some flags about Keaton all the way back to Sarnia earlier.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

at U-17s almost two years ago now.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And I just caught back from the Frozen Four in Vegas and thought he really, really struggled in the semifinal there and in a couple of important games down the stretch at North Dakota.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And I wonder a little bit about his boots and his

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Decision-making, not quite like David Juracek in those two areas, but both of them in terms of the pivots and some of the clumsiness over his feet.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And then some of the decision-making does worry me a little bit with Keaton relative to, like Keaton's still a top 10 pick in his class all day, but I'm talking relative to a Chase Reed and Albert Smith, the Carson Carls, players who I now have in front of Keaton on my list.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And then Mal Holtra, absolutely based off of everything he has accomplished this year and the way he has played from day one in Brantford to

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

through to an excellent playoffs thus far.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I believe he has eight goals in seven games, 13 points in seven games, I believe.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And he has been sensational.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

That team is one of the deepest teams in junior hockey, arguably the deepest team in junior hockey.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

There was an expectation after they traded for Jet Luchenko, a borderline top 10 pick for the Philadelphia Flyers a couple of years ago.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And they already had Jake O'Brien, a top 10 pick of the Seattle Kraken.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

There was an expectation that he might sort of stay on the third line, which is where he started this season.