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Profile for Jake Bean (added 7/5/16 before prospect camp)
With their first pick in the 2016 NHL draft (#13 overall), the Carolina Hurricanes selected defenseman Jake Bean. Bean hails from Western Canada and played the 2015-16 season for the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League. Bean is a skating, scoring and puck-moving defenseman who notched impressive 24 goals and 64 points in 68 games in 2015-16. As is a common theme, he has been described as cerebral and creatively offensively from the back end. He projects to be the kind of defenseman that is an offensive catalyst from the blue line.
Reading list of external articles about Jake Bean
Steve Kournianos at The Draft Analyst profiles Bean here.
Eric Engels at Sportsnet has the 411 on Bean in this article.
Ryan Pike at The Hockey Writers profiles Jake Bean here.
Ben Kerr from Last Word on Sports offers this profile for Bean.
Added 7/5/16 before Hurricanes prospect camp————————————————–
Ben Pope from The News & Observer had this to say about Bean on the eve of the prospect camp.
Go Canes!
Something I see here…that you are ignoring… all the articles are about how good this guy is! Nothing about whether you need another Dman, or G, or forward…! We’ve got several good Dmen, our goalies suck, and we need more forwards! You do the math… why draft another D?
Can you say STUPID? Where are your priorities?
No, stupid is seeing a player ranked anywhere between 6-9 fall to 13 and not choosing him because of depth. And its not like there were any forwards of comparable talent, the next 3 best players were also defenders who fell. So no, it was not stupid. Taken a player at the 15-18 range when 6-9 is available is stupid. No good goalies were available, and we can trade for good young forwards, you know, like Teuvo, Nordstrom, and Saarela. We also have JStaal, Skinner, Rask, Lindholm, Aho, and PDG. If all of them either stay at their current level or get better, we are only missing a top 6 center and scorer. All but our fourth line is filled out. So just because we have lots of defensemen now, doesn’t mean that we wont need them in 4-5 years. Roster turnover and trades occur, this just allows us to have more options available. You NEVER draft for need, always best player available. And Bean was by FAR the best player.
Picking a dman who cant defend is smart?