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Originally Posted by bax
Yeah, a core of:
Petterson
Horvat
Boeser
Tkachuk
Nylander
Demko
Hughes
wouldn't look too bad at all. Hindsight though.
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That's not hindsight. Tkachuk and Nylander (or Ehlers) were the consensus picks. People knew the Virtanen and Juolevi picks were bad as soon as they were made. Heck even if you subscribed to drafting by positional need theory for Juolevi they still made the wrong pick. The Pettersson pick is obviously a good one. Remains to be seen on Hughes, but the misses on Tkachuk and Nylander set the franchise back. To what degree remains to be seen but I see a roster lacking 2 good top 6 wingers that they should already have and no real depth in the organization to make such acquisitions and free agency is a overpriced crap shoot. IT will take some very good management to overcome those screw ups. So if ownership doesn't makes changes in a few weeks, well, congrats Pacific division you won't really need to worry about the canucks for a few more years yet!