{"id":30235,"date":"2018-05-31T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=30235"},"modified":"2018-05-31T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T02:20:23","slug":"michael-dipietro-signs-with-vancouver-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/05\/31\/michael-dipietro-signs-with-vancouver-canucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael DiPietro signs with Vancouver Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver\u00a0Canucks<\/a> have signed goaltender <strong>Michael DiPietro<\/strong> to a three-year, entry-level contract. Financials\u00a0on the deal have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All the details on @miketendy&#39;s signing: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gnhSuVFobu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/gnhSuVFobu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/1002257383870025729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Michael DiPietro Signs With Vancouver\u00a0Canucks<\/h1>\n<p>Last season DiPietro went 29-21-1 with a 2.79 GAA and.910 SV percentage in 56 games with the OHL&#8217;s Windsor Spitfire. He also had seven shutouts setting a new\u00a0Spitfire record. DiPietro was originally drafted in the third round, 64th overall in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft by the Canucks. He was named OHL Goaltender of the Year and played for Team Canada during the IIHF World Championships. DiPietro did not see any action during the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Kerr had this to say in his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2017\/05\/07\/michael-dipietro-scouting-report-2017-nhl-draft-39\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scouting report<\/a> of DiPietro<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DiPietro is calm and composed in net. There have been times this year when Windsor has dominated the play, and he has not seen many shots. Despite that, he maintains good focus and is ready for the next shot. \u00a0There have also been times when Windsor had a mish-mash lineup due to injuries, and he faced a lot of shots and odd-man rushes against. He did not get flustered and maintained his poise in the net,&#8221; says the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockeyprospects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top Shelf Prospects<\/a>. &#8220;Like most young goalies, DiPietro is going to be a long-term project. He will need time to develop and refine the finer points of his game. The talent and potential to be a number one goaltender in the NHL are there. One aspect of his game that really needs work is his puck handling ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerr went onto compare DiPietro to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a>&#8216; netminder\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/halakja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaroslav Halak<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>What This Means for the Future<\/h1>\n<p>The 18-year-old joins the young core of goaltenders that the Canucks have. This past year the Canucks had <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marksja02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Markstrom<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nilssan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anders Nilsson<\/a><\/strong> manning the net for the\u00a0pride of British Columbia. DiPietro will most likely spend a year or two down in the AHL before he is called up to the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"MKppuTc9Top0tu6_fXxiPA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/855311386\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MKppuTc9Top0tu6_fXxiPA',sig:'xnct5aUY5Kq4el0_nlnyaPKuapyap0y8-N61nhDHEN8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'855311386',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver\u00a0Canucks have signed goaltender Michael DiPietro to a three-year, entry-level contract. Financials\u00a0on the deal have not yet been released. All the details on @miketendy&#39;s signing: https:\/\/t.co\/gnhSuVFobu &mdash; Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) May 31, 2018 Michael DiPietro Signs With Vancouver\u00a0Canucks Last season DiPietro went 29-21-1 with a 2.79 GAA and.910 SV percentage in 56 games with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":30246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3172,34,309],"tags":[1616,955,158],"class_list":["post-30235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canucks","category-chl","category-news","category-nhl-top-prospects","tag-michael-dipietro","tag-nhl-news","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}