Lekkerimäki absent from last four Abbotsford Canucks playoff games

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A few weeks ago, anyone who thought about a long playoff run for Abbotsford Canucks waited for Jonathan Lekkkerimäki to play the leading role.

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Vancouver Canucks’s farm hands were injured as one of the last two teams in AHL. Abbotsford, on Friday Charlotte, NC Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte’a 4-3 pairs of overtime victory against the seven best Calder Cup championship series opened.

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The game is switching to Abbotsford on Tuesday for Sunday and Series 3 in Charlotte.

And the role of Lekkerimäki in all these things so far? It was a little player.

The 2022 NHL draft Vancouver’s first round selection (generally number 15), Sweden, was a healthy scratch for a fourth flat game on Friday. Abbotsford has acted on 12 out of 19 playoff matches and scored a goal and five points during this time.

Rolling Abbotsford. We choose here. This sounds like finding a cloud from a distance in a bright sky. This is the deepest thing that the Vancouver has gone since the Utica -comet stars in 2015 in 2015.

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At the same time, Lekkerimäki is the best possibility in the vancouver system and is currently the biggest time of the year. He is a pure scorer in an organization that is already short in the attack and seems to lose Brock Boeser to a free agency this summer.

In the normal season, he scored 19 goals in 36 matches for Abbotsford. More impressively, he made an average of 3.4 shots per game. (On the contrary, so far, Abbotsford has an average of 1.4 shots in the playoffs.)

Lekkerimäki also entered 24 games with Vancouver this season and had moments, including three goals.

Vancouver’s scattered normal season is well documented. They have various holes to fill, and they have made it clear that Quinn Hughes wanted to be better quickly with the contract after the 2026-27 season. The transactions would accelerate the process, but now dealing with Lekkerimäki does not seem to be cautious.

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Lekkerimäki is a high-level talent-2024 The most valuable player of the world-and in its first season in North America. Compared to NHL standards, it comes with light, 5 meters 11 and 172 pounds. Give him time to strengthen. There’s a runway to decide what to do.

Vancouver’s additions to the defense, considering the additions made there this season, seems to have trade chips to play.

In the end, it will be interesting to see how Lekkerimäki reacts to this stretch. It will be interesting to see how Canucks works with him, especially Elias Petterson’s production and how critical Teamly Team Pirinç, who was critical of the 26 -year -old center, signed an eight -year extension in March 2024.

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You cannot ignore the return of Lekkerimäki’s return to the Abbotsford series against Charlotte in this series. The game 1 is any indicator, if the checkers plays at a significant speed-“they apply pressure on printing on printing.

Malhotra may need to turn to fresh legs.

Lekkerimäki’s total of goals in the normal season came third in Abbotsford this season, and Danila Klimovich watched 25 goals in 65 games and Linus Karlsson’s 23 goals in 32 games. Lekkerimäki’s seven power game goals only watched eight of Klimovich. The 22 -year -old Klimovich was a 2021 -second tour by Canucks, while the 25 -year -old Karlsson was the third round of 2018 by San Jose Sharks in the 2019 Jonathan Dahlen trade.

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