Posts About "Emerson Etem"
Questionable Roster Decisions Plague Canucks
October 14th, 2016 Last year, the Canucks were lambasted for exposing and losing a young player on the waiver wire. When general manager Jim Benning did the same thing on Wednesday, there was barely more than an eyebrow raised. On Wednesday, the Canucks announced that they were placing 24-year-old forward Emerson Etem on waivers. Benning decided to...
5 Surprises From the Canucks Preseason
October 7th, 2016 Expectations are undoubtedly low for the Vancouver Canucks entering the 2016-17 season. That being said, this has been one of the most competitive Canucks preseasons in recent memory. Many of the young Canucks on the roster have come to play this preseason. Ben Hutton, Bo Horvat and Brenan Gaunce among others have been flying around...
Emerson Etem Remains a Wild Card
September 20th, 2016 There's a second line void that needs to be filled. The Canucks must be wondering, who is going to step up? Bo Horvat and Sven Baertschi are good bets to do so, after coming on strong in the second half of the season. How about Jannik Hansen — how much will he produce if Eriksson presumably steals his spot on the top line? Can...
Poor Roster Management Undermining Rangers
January 25th, 2016 The New York Rangers have had several troubling trends manifest themselves this season, including poor defensive zone coverage, a woeful penalty kill, and a lack of mental toughness. There is another issue, however, that has been happening since before this season started: poor roster and player personnel decisions, both in terms of...
Who is Nicklas Jensen?
January 16th, 2016 The Rangers moved Emerson Etem for Nicklas Jensen and a sixth-round-pick early in the new year; Jensen reported straight to the Rangers AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack. Etem was brought in this off-season as part of the trade that sent Carl Hagelin to Anaheim; the hope was that he could both contribute now, and continue to evolve...
Emerson Etem Trade Gives Canucks a New Gear
January 11th, 2016 The Emerson Etem experiment didn't turn out the way they had hoped it would in New York (to much surprise) and thus Etem finds himself on his third NHL team in his young career. He struggled to find a solid place in both the Anaheim Ducks and New York Rangers systems, buried by the depth that those teams had accrued. He's now a...
