David Carle and the Denver Pioneers have struck gold again, as they have now received an official commitment from Ryan Lin, the top-ranked 2008 birth year in the entire world.<\/p>\n
Lin, a 17-year-old from Richmond, British Columbia, is a top 15 prospect for this year\u2019s rendition of the NHL Draft. Many analysts have him in the mid to low 10s, while even FloHockey compliments Lin as the #9 prospect.<\/p>\n
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Lin finished his second full season in the WHL with the Vancouver Giants as a shining star on a team that could\u2019ve used some more reinforcements. The Giants finished last in the Western Conference at a record of 25-39-2-2.<\/p>\n
Lin led the team in points with 57, with the next player having 44, and was a Western Conference second-team all-star. He was a catalyst of the power play, tacking on 21 power play assists and 24 power play points, leading anyone else by 10 or more in each of those categories.<\/p>\n
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The Canadian finishes his WHL career with an incredible 122 games and 112 points before even being 18 years old.<\/p>\n
For Denver, the nation of Canada has delivered gifts to them in recruitment before. Four of the top eight scorers this year on the Pioneers are Canadian, while 46.2% of the entire team represents them as well, including the strengthened goaltender room of Quentin Miller and Johnny Hicks.<\/p>\n
The NCHC champion Denver looks to the present, where it\u2019ll take on Michigan in the Frozen Four on April 9.<\/p>\n
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No matter the result of next weekend, the future looms bright for a prolific Pioneers program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Carle and the Denver Pioneers have struck gold again, as they have now received an official commitment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[1020,4345,5,4,465,466,18388,673,1578,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-537700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-british-columbia","9":"tag-denver-pioneers","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-draft","13":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","14":"tag-richmond","15":"tag-ryan-lin","16":"tag-vancouver-giants","17":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116338451099897387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}