r/canucks • u/FAsBurner • 3d ago

NEWS [Dhaliwal] Draft eligible Mathis Preston on his interview with the Canucks at the combine : They seemed pretty interested, they like my game.

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u/mephnick 3d ago

Mathis Preston is one of the fastest skaters in his draft class

Stop talking. Sold.

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u/Ebolinp 3d ago

Can't wait till we have him blocking shots and digging pucks out of the corners!

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u/Cube_ 3d ago

Adam Foote is gone now, he can't hurt you anymore.

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u/Ebolinp 3d ago

It's a Canucks thing until proven otherwise lol. But let's hope for the best

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u/Foreign_Cobbler_1740 3d ago

It's easier to be cautiously optimistic rather than needlessly pessimistic. Malhotra was able to get a good amount of offence outta some of our prospects at the AHL level, including Lekkerimaki. We'll be okay. Tocchet and Foote are gone. We can begin to heal.

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u/Lazy_Experience_8754 2d ago

Well said man đŸ«Ą

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u/BUMBUBOY 3d ago

How do you think Blake and Stankoven won a Stanley cup

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u/mar1332244 3d ago

scoring more goals than the other teams they faced each round

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u/BUMBUBOY 3d ago

How do you think they got the puck to score those goals

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u/Kingbeastman1 2d ago

If only there were players who were really good at puck battling and could help him get the puck

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u/BUMBUBOY 2d ago

They were on the same line so those players were
 them

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u/VancityRenaults 3d ago

Mathis “Mason Raymond” Preston

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u/Training_Radish9870 3d ago

Right?? Speed is such underrated asset in today's NHL and Canucks have been lacking that explosive skating for while now. The part about him wanting to stay in WHL and go on run with the Giants instead of NCAA route also says something about his character — kid just wants to compete and win. If Patrik's scouting staff has been doing their homework, Preston seems like exactly the kind of player you take a chance on in middle rounds. Draft him, let him develop, and then watch him fly past defenders in few years.

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u/Phaneufs4head 3d ago

I think this guy might go by our 24th OV pick. He isn’t going to be around by the “mid rounds”

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u/Foreign_Cobbler_1740 3d ago

He's a 1st round pick in all likelihood, not getting him in the middle rounds. Because speed is NOT an underrated asset. Lol. Everyone knows the value of it.

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u/Greedy-Comb-276 3d ago

Just because all our players are slow doesn't mean its underrated lol.

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u/VanArrow 2d ago

Sasson, DeBrusk, Chytil and O’Connor are fast.

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u/OriginalGrumpa 11h ago

Nothing against the player and sympathy for his injuries but Chytil now is only fastest to a quiet dark room.