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By Stephan Roget
Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet that always starts by welcoming you back.
Speaking of welcoming back, welcome back to the official start of the hockey season. By the time you read these words, you’ll be just days away from the first actual-factual Vancouver Canucks hockey of the 2024/25 season, in the form of the Penticton Young Stars Classic – otherwise known as the pre-preseason.
Though it’s been a bit of an on-again, off-again sort of thing, the Penticton Tournament has become something that fans in this market really look forward to. What better way to ring in a new hockey season than with a look to the future?
Each September – or each September in which the tourney is actually being held – about a dozen Canucks prospects and a handful of contractual hopefuls head to the Okanagan to compete against the best prospects the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets have to offer. And each year, at least one Canucks player manages to make a name for themselves in Penticton, springboarding a good showing there into an extended look at main  look at main camp, and then from there…who knows?

Each September – or each September in which the tourney is actually being held – about a dozen Canucks prospects and a handful of contractual hopefuls head to the Okanagan to compete against the best prospects the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets have to offer. And each year, at least one Canucks player manages to make a name for themselves in Penticton, springboarding a good showing there into an extended look at main camp, and then from there…who knows?

 

That’s the exciting part about watching prospects. You never really know where they’ll end up. But for many of them, their journey to becoming Canucks starts in Penticton.
Which is why we’re so curious to find out who your eye will be on this upcoming weekend.
This week, we’re asking:

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Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet that always starts by welcoming you back.
Speaking of welcoming back, welcome back to the official start of the hockey season. By the time you read these words, you’ll be just days away from the first actual-factual Vancouver Canucks hockey of the 2024/25 season, in the form of the Penticton Young Stars Classic – otherwise known as the pre-preseason.
Though it’s been a bit of an on-again, off-again sort of thing, the Penticton Tournament has become something that fans in this market really look forward to. What better way to ring in a new hockey season than with a look to the future?
Each September – or each September in which the tourney is actually being held – about a dozen Canucks prospects and a handful of contractual hopefuls head to the Okanagan to compete against the best prospects the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets have to offer. And each year, at least one Canucks player manages to make a name for themselves in Penticton, spring boarding a good showing there into an extended look at main camp, and then from there…who knows?

That’s the exciting part about watching prospects. You never really know where they’ll end up. But for many of them, their journey to becoming Canucks starts in Penticton.

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9 hours ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Not to be a downer. I just am worried Klim is going to be one of those prospects that teases with potential, and just never gets there. 

I'm not even sold on Letterkenny. And I will happily be wrong if they have an outstanding training camp. 

Lekkerimaki is a for sure nhl scoring machine and 200 foot player. He will be a star.

Love Klimovich, but he seems to be another of Benning’s guys who are a miss. Jake, OJ, Klim. Our first picks in a draft were almost always Benning’s guys, except Petey. Thank the Gods we have competent management now who encourage the scouts to do their jobs. Total opposite of Dimbo. 

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6 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Lekkerimaki is a for sure nhl scoring machine and 200 foot player. He will be a star.

Love Klimovich, but he seems to be another of Benning’s guys who are a miss. Jake, OJ, Klim. Our first picks in a draft were almost always Benning’s guys, except Petey. Thank the Gods we have competent management now who encourage the scouts to do their jobs. Total opposite of Dimbo. 

That Hughes guy has been a major let down.

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1 minute ago, flat land fish said:

That Hughes guy has been a major let down.

Hughes was absolutely Benning’s guy. Canucks played a video of the draft and when other clubs passed on Hughes Wisebrod said to Dimbo “you got your guy”. 
Dimbo had a lot of high picks and missed on the vast majority because he always went with “his guy” and ignored his scouting department. 

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