Vancouver – Conor Garland His dad, Harry, returned home in Boston, almost every day. And on their call before the Friday game, Vancouver Canax Winger was delighted with his bursts about this child in the team Jonathan Lekkerimaki.
“I told my father on the phone, I can’t believe that Lekkerimaki jumped,” Garland explained. “This is confidence. A shot is a shot; This is his gift. You know, everyone has a gift. But I think that the rest of his game has come a long way.
“I am not an appraiser, but I just feel that he is much more confident. Three days ago, in practice, from five to five in the zone, he just had a puck, and he moved with it. Perhaps last year … He was not so decisive. I think he may notice it. ”
Imagine what the phone call will be like tomorrow.
In the last pre-season Canucks match in the final listening to Lekkerimaki, when a 21-year-old football player is trying to make a list of the national hockey league season, the Swedish Winger shuddered in the gates of Edmonton Opeles, when Vancouver fought at 3-2 in the Trush-time.
Garland scored a beautiful winner, handed it past Leon Dreisight and near Connor McDavid to tighten the puck around Picard, completing 90 seconds of Kanak’s possession of three by three.
However, on Monday, the coaches and the leadership of Vancouver decide to configure their list in order to match the NHL, most likely, holding up some players in minors, because they do not need refusals, it seems impossible that Lekkerimaki will not be part of the group of the first night when Kalgari will visit Canks the next Thursday.
In a team that began a training camp in order to find ways to be more offensive, two Lekkerimaki catchers on Friday in a complete rehearsal of the dress indicate an offensive weapon, which they develop in the first round of 2022, which scored 19 times in 36 games in the American hockey league last season.
“Oh, he can break it,” said Kank Jake Debrusk, then compared a shot of Lekkerimaki with the former teammate of Boston David Pastrak. “He reminds me of the paste in a sense. Only his release, right? The paste flashed a little more at the end, but the way she leaves his stick … You guys saw it tonight. ”
Picard saw them, but could not allow the puck from his network when Lekkerimaki fastened one high glove to open an account in 9.3 seconds remaining in the first period, and then defeated the goalkeeper’s stick in a power game to make it 2-2 at 5:58 of the third.
Another player who saw was Braeden CootsThe first round in Vancouver of 2025, which stubbornly refused to go from the team, and in his first training camp in the NHL, it seems to be the first 18-year-old to make Kenax, as Petdard did it in 1990.
Cootes defended the puck and slipped it Lekkerimaki on the first goal. The prospects were in partnership with the former veteran Evander Kane.
Canucks head coach Adam Full and his employees intentionally did not try to “hide” their children on Friday, and Lekkerimaki and Cootes hung a couple of shifts against McDavid and Draisaitl. But the prospects ended with 65 percent of the expected targets for five by five.
Listeners in protection, combination of potential customers Elias Pettersson (Younger) and Tom WillandIt was streamlined territorially and surrendered the target to the oilman Kasper Kapanen on a fit of four for two in the second period. But they did not look stunned since the start of the training camp, although it looks like the prospect Victor Manciniwho did not dress on Friday, finished in front of them in the battle of the blue line.
None of the three is refused, therefore it can be indicated for AHL on Monday if hockey care will want to protect additional forwards in the NHL list. But all three Mancini, Petersson and Willand will play for Canax this season.
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The team completed the first pre-season season of foot as the head coach of 4-2 and, obviously, built an impulse when players turned on the instructions of the coaching staff to play faster and aggressively.
“I think it looks very harsh,” said Tatcher Demko, the goalkeeper of Canucks, stopping 25 out of 27 shots of the oil industry. “You can say that the guys are on the same page. And this is a merit for our employees, the merit of guys who do a lot of work. The continuity of the team seems really strong.
“It is obvious that a good team there (with Edmonton) is a couple of good players. I thought we played with confidence. We played our game. We did not sit and did not wait to see what they were going to do, so it really encourages. ”
Positive vibrations emanating from the chancock locker room are sharply contrasting with a dark mood that accompanied the noise of the last season.
“From the point of view of the team – and I know everything I say, it will be directed for the last year – we are a tough, tough group,” said Garland. “We feel that every day we have a lot of fun. You guys can see in practice, for example, it is energetic, it looks sharp. Fun during games. I feel that we play very quickly, doing everything we talked about, but again, on Thursday evening, all changes. ”
“You take it for what it is,” said Debrusk. “But, as a team here, the way we returned (tonight), and just as we adhered to our game, it was why we have a training camp. This was what we were concentrated on. So, we listen, and we see the results. ”
Starting on Thursday, the results are important.
Friday composition Canucks
Debra-Peterson-Boser
Cylinders
Kane-Cootes-LEKKERIMAKI
O'Connor-Blueger-Sherwood
Hughes-Khronek
M. Peterson-Mayers
Peterson (younger) -willler
