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Vancouver Canucks: Development Camp Moves to the Island, Richardson Surgery |
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I haven't even been in Prague for 12 hours yet but already feel completely immersed in the World Championships.
You'll hear lots more on this topic from me as the week rolls on, but I wanted to check in with a quick hit of material that's more Canuck-centric. I'm covering the Canada/Austria game at noon local time tomorrow—that's 3:00 a.m. PT—so it's not much of a turnaround before I have to get back to work.
I was interested to hear today that the Canucks will be taking their summer prospect development camp to a new location this year:
The list of prospects who will take part in this year's camp has not yet been released, but we do know that all on-ice workouts between July 3 and 9 at Shawnigan Lake School will be open to the public. I hope our Island contingent of HockeyBuzzers will stop in and offer us some first-hand scouting reports on the young players, which should include a new first-rounder from 2015 as well as this week's star prospect, Cole Cassels.
By the time that camp rolls around, we'll know whether or not the Canucks were successful in signing Jordan Subban. That deadline is coming up pretty soon—on June 1.
As I type this, Game 3 is just getting underway between the AHL Utica Comets and the Oklahoma City Barons. I'm not seeing any notes about lineup changes for coach Travis Green, so I'm assuming that Jake Virtanen and Jared McCann will continue to learn simply by soaking up the experience around them.
Among present-day Canucks, we got confirmation today about something we've expected since the team broke up for the summer:
I've been saying that this is a big blow for Richardson, thinking of the year-long rehab that David Booth endured before making strides back towards 100 percent after his ankle injury. Though he seems to think that Richardson's a $2 million-a-season commodity on the open market this summer, Thomas Drance's headline suggests that the injury could help the Canucks pick up a bargain.
I like Richardson and think, when healthy, that he's a very useful player. But my guess is that he is not going to be healthy next season and therefore, won't be useful. Even at a bargain price, I'd rather see the Canucks save that roster spot for someone who can play at 100 percent—preferably someone younger. But I do wish Richardson all the best and hope that his injury doesn't send him off into the abyss, like what happened to Andrew Alberts last season.
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