The Canuck Way will be doing a series on potential draft selections for the Vancouver Canucks in the weeks leading up to the June draft, but I would like to make an exception for one player that has been generating plenty of buzz in Canuck-land since the lottery: Victor Söderström.
As soon as the results of the lottery became known, plenty of pundits and fans alike began jumping aboard to Söderström to Canucks hype train. TSN’s Craig Button projected the Canucks to select the Swedish defenceman in his immediate post-lottery mock draft, and The Province’s Ben Kuzma described him as a “prototypical, new-age defenceman.