Vancouver Canucks top prospects of week 16: Pettersson, Lind, Gadjovich

No. 2 – LW Jonah Gadjovich (Owen Sound Attack, OHL)

January has had it’s fair share of ups and downs for Jonah Gadjovich. He won a gold medal with Team Canada at the start of the month. Unfortunately, he didn’t play much of that championship game because he came down with an illness.

That illness kept him out of the Owen Sound lineup for most of the month. Gadjovich made his return on January 26th and looks to build on what’s left of his season and into the OHL playoffs. Since our last update, the Attack had three games, winning all of them.

Gadjovich had a goal, three assists and 13 shots this week. He is still a shot machine, with 144 in 27 games. The man-child averages a whopping 5.3 shots per game and is still in the top 50 in shots on goal in the OHL. Injuries and the World Juniors have cost Gadjovich 20 games this season, but it still did not stop him from being a shot machine.

Here’s a GIF of the big guy using his shot (thank you Ryan Biech):

Thanks to his late birthday, Gadjovich will be old enough to play in Utica next season. I think he’s physically ready, but the determining factor will be his skating. If both he and Kole Lind can make the Comets next year, they will be the latest Jim Benning draft picks to play in the AHL. I’m optimistic that the pair of them should fair better than Jake Virtanen.