The Vancouver Canucks took no goalies in this year’s NHL Entry draft.
The Vancouver Canucks took no goalies in last year’s NHL Entry draft.
The last goalie the Vancouver Canucks took in an NHL Entry draft was Thatcher Demko. That was in 2014.
It’s lucky he appears to be good, because drafting goalies is wildly unpredictable. And when you couple unpredictability with a small number of drafted players, you get an extraordinarily high percentage of drafted goalies who never play a game in the show. You get a nice sense of this phenomenon when you spend time at a scouting site like Hockey’s Future.