Canucks Ink Matt Pope
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 19, 2009 4:13 AM PDT
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With a week before the NHL Entry Draft, Gillis is busy stocking the farm as best he can. Yesterday he inked Langley product Matt Pope to a two way deal.
"There were a few teams interested, but the Canucks, I was hoping they were going to make me a good offer," Pope said by phone as he was on his way to Los Angeles.
Pope played four seasons at Bemidji State University in Minnesota (the College Hockey America Conference) and ranks 10th in BSU Division I history with 71 career points and ranks 9th with 33 career goals. Following the end of school, Pope appeared in 54 games last season with the ECHL's Bakersfield Condors where he notched 63 points (30-33-63) and recorded 72 penalty minutes. Following Bakersfield, Pope played with the AHL's Binghamton Senators where he scored three points (2-1-3) and added four penalty minutes. Following that Pope landed a try out deal with the Moose and played in 12 playoff games with Manitoba, being part of their playoff run and scoring three goals and three assists in the process.
Pope, a right winger, will take part in a Canucks rookie development camp in three weeks and then likely you'll see him in Vancouver's main training camp in September.
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I was going to ask what you thought of him since you paid to see those games. Someone saw something in him. Young and a hometown kid…pure fodder for the media when the rookie camp opens up. But good to see Gillis signing kids left and right.
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So then I guess Gillis wan NOT scouting Jaffray at those games then? Yeesh.
I’m going to make my first prediction for next season: If Jaffray does NOT get signed here, he’ll get 15-20 goals on a different NHL team.
by Sean Zandberg on Jun 19, 2009 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
On like Chicago or St. Louis. Or, worse still, Calgary.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 19, 2009 7:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking New York Islanders or Florida
by Sean Zandberg on Jun 19, 2009 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions
But yeah, please not in our division to rub it in our faces
by Sean Zandberg on Jun 19, 2009 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t care that some people might say that Jaffray is a career AHL’er. I still disagree.
by Sean Zandberg on Jun 19, 2009 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
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