The perspective of Canucks signed Aku Koskenvuo. Will come in the goal?

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Today, Canucks Avenue signed headlines for the title news giant Harvard Goalie Aku Koskenvuo NHL team.

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It’s always good news.

The real question is: Can a long-term Finn change the goal of Canucks’s future?

Kevin Lankinen, signed as a column until 2028, was not clear that the other goalkeepers will not be open. Obviously, another year has THATCHER DEMCO under the contract. But after injuries, three chapters in a row stopped twisting Canucks, it is fair to be interested in the future in Vancouver.

Canucks, I would love to go back to full health and shape. This will solve the near future.

In the long run, the work is very murkier.

This is to think that Koskenvuo has signed a two-year contract on Tuesday and signs a two-year contract to start this fall. Canucks need to move forward in order to be ready for Demko and Lankinen, a few seasons have been emerging from today. Koskenvuo and Canucks have six goals that sign NHL contracts for the next season.

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It is worth noting, 2022-23 regular season, Vegas Golden Knights used five goals. This is the season that wins the Vegas Stanley Cup.

Now let’s be clear: Koskenvuo NHL is not ready. It is another project.

But it is also a familiar project: prepared in 2021, there was a goal in choosing. Canucks, Ian Clark, the goalkeeping director, I saw a goalkeeper with the length of the “length”, he was tall, long limbs and showed a strong concept of his own athleticism.

Before the first Canucks Development Camp in 2022, Clark could link Kotkenvuo with a Finn: Marko Torinius, who is now the leading goalkeeper coach of Canucks. Torinius and Clark have a long-lasting relationship and therefore two fins were logical to get together together.

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Torenius, this summer was hired by Canucks to become the organization’s goalkeeping coach at the end of this year; Until the former Season NHL Canucks, the previous two seasons were consulted with goalkeepers in Abbotsford as well as Koskenvuo.

Koskenvuo, in 2022-23, a total of two for Harvard, but the last two seasons for Crimson made 38.

There was a growth in his game, the canucks were observed. It was not allowed to work on ice with the prospect of Torenius, but was able to send notes and video clips to the prospect.

“He begins to understand less,” Torinius said last summer to NHL.com. “He can rely on his body, it can be more compact. He does not need to be everywhere. He is one of the wild horses we have, and it is a long way to get the balance of children. “

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Scott Young, director of the player’s staff, based on the Boston region, and saw a large number of Koskenvuo last season.

“I saw it for the first time that the thing standing with me was his athletics and how quickly the legs were and how quickly the reactions with puck.”

Koskenvuo’s performance showed progress and excited the young and colleagues, what they believed. Outside of building their physical talents, KoskenVuo had to study mental discipline as a student in Harvard. Being athlete in Harvard means to find a personal discipline that benefits for a life that works for a life that works more as a fully professional hockey player.

“Going to classes and then acquire your business boots in practice and games, what he takes, it is very mentally,” he said.

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He went to the University of Boston, but there are many friends playing in Harvard – there are many friends on scout players there for years – so he is well acquainted with the Harvard program.

“Being one of the best schools in the world with maturity and especially Harvard … This is really required.”

Koskenvuo will finish the school year – Junior – works by the end of April. If either NHL or AHL canucks are still playing, they fly it to get another taste of the organization.

However, his contract will not start until the next fall, so it is impossible to see any game action in September.

Of course, when it comes to goalkeepers, nothing is determined. But it never hurts to have many options according to your list.

“See Vegas,” he said. “You can never own too much door.”

Goalkeeper depth graph

At present, Canucks’s pecking order seems to:

• Kevin lankinen (Signed up to 2028)

• Thatcher Demko (Signed up to 2026)

• Artur Shilov (Signed up to 2026)

• Use a patera (Signed up to 2026)

• Nikita Tolopilo (Limited free agent this summer)

• Young ty (Signed up to 2027)

• Donald Koskenvuo (Signed up to 2027)

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