Saturday, April 29, could be a great day for the Vancouver Canucks organisation. The Canucks will have a 12.124 percent chance of winning the first-overall pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft through the league’s annual draft lottery. That would mark the first first-overall selection in franchise history.
With that pick, general manager Jim Benning could pick one of Nolan Patrick and Nico Hischier to become the franchise’s future first-line center.
But, being Canucks fans, we know how unlikely this really is. This isn’t actually a story of statistical odds. This is about the Canucks never getting nice things.