With their final pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, the Vancouver Canucks selected a player who was expected to be drafted earlier.
Vancouver made Kirill Kudryavtsev their seventh-round selection with the 208th overall pick in the draft.
According to most rankings, Kudryavtsev was expected to go somewhere between rounds three to five.
He finished 104th overall in Elite Prospects Consolidated Ranking of 13 different outlets, which would have made him an early fourth-round pick.
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