There was something about the Vancouver Canucks‘ 50th season that showed Jacob Markstrom was the team’s biggest asset and without him, making the playoffs this season would have never been an option.
Yes, thanks to some clever work from 6-year GM Jim Benning, the Canucks were able to vastly improve their roster in more areas than one this year. J.T. Miller led the team in points and turned out to be the missing piece to the Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser combination. The trio dubbed the “Lotto-line” went on to be one of the most dominant top lines across the National Hockey League and was a puck-possession force not to be messed with.