The Vancouver Canucks organization and fans anxiously await the Apr. 28 draft lottery, which will determine if they land generational defenceman Rasmus Dahlin — or perhaps another can’t-miss prospect.
As Ryan Biech pointed out, the Canucks can’t pick fourth or fifth, so it’s either a top-three selection or somewhere from sixth to ninth. And 2018 is a draft class where picking inside the top-five is vital, with Dahlin being in a level of his own.
After that, wingers Andrei Svechnikov, Brady Tkachuck and Flip Zadina also figure to fall in the top-five. Otherwise, blueliners Adam Boqvist and Quinton Hughes will be there for the taking as future top-pairing guys.