Canucks: Top 3 candidates to replace Judd Brackett

3. Scott Scoville

Scott Scoville started his career as head scout for Everett Silvertips in 2002, and he was promoted to Director of player development in the 2005-2006 season. He stayed with the organization until 2011.

During that time, the Silvertips drafted three players that would go on to the NHL Carter Hart, Radko Gudas and Peter Mueller. During his time with Everett, the team finished first  in their division four times and made it to the WHL finals once. He then joined the Winnipeg Jets in 2011 as an amatuer scout.

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The Jets have picked a total of 13 guys from the WHL since Scoville joined the team. Eight of those picks are from the third round or later, and only one of those picks currently plays in the NHL (Adam Lowry). They also only took one WHL player from the first round which was Josh Morrissey.

That leaves four remaining picks from the second round. One is Nic Petan who is floating around the NHL looking for a permanent role on the team.

Another played 29 games this year for the Jets, and that was Jansen Harkins. The only two are currently in the AHL. While he doesn’t have the same success as Brackett, he was still able to find some players past the first round.

2. Terry Doran

Terry Doran has had an interesting career starting as an assistant general manager for the Newmarket Royals followed by a GM role for Sarina Sting.

With his two years as GM, Doran traded for Jon Sim, Eric Boulton and Andy Delmore, and he drafted Trevor Letowski. All four of them played 100 games or more in the NHL.

In both his years there as GM, the club made the playoffs. Doran then had his first scouting job for the NHL with the Phoenix Coyotes from 1996 to 2000. During this time, they drafted Robert Esche and Letowski from the OHL.

Doran then returned to Sarnia as GM in 2000-01, where he continued his success of finding players who would make it to the NHL. He drafted Dan Fritsche, Daniel Carcillo, Micheal Haley and Richard Clune.

The Sting finished first in their division once in those four years.  He then started his scouting career at the OHL level joining, the Windsor Spitfires from 2005 to 2012. From 2005 to 2012 the Spitfires drafted Adam Henrique, Ryan Ellis, Taylor Hall, Austin Watson, Mikhail Sergachyov, and Richard Panik.

Doran was promoted to assistant general manager in 2012 and stayed there for two years. There, they drafted future Arizona Coyotes blueliner Jakob Chychrun.

In 2014, he joined the Calgary Flames as an amateur scout, where Doran remains. He has continued scouting players from the OHL and it has benefited the Flames by finding players like Sam Bennett, Rasmus Andersson, Andrew Mangiapane and Matthew Tkachuk.

The thing I like about Doran is his experience. He made it to the NHL level as a scout and couldn’t hold on to it the first time, but when he went back to the OHL, Doran  found a way to be more successful. Now he’s back in the NHL.

The Flames selected nine players from the OHL, and four of them currently play on the team. His experience as a GM should help too, because he would have to take what others say and determine what would be the best result.