Last year, general manager Jim Benning went to the draft lottery, and once again the Canucks fell down the board. Keep in mind, even though the team has fallen on the draft board, they drafted Elias Pettersson with the fifth overall pick in 2017, and Quinn Hughes with the seventh overall pick a year later in 2018.
I say, the streak of falling on the draft board ends here. But it may take a change of personnel in order to pull it off. Fans began calling for the team’s mascot Fin, to be sent to the draft lottery instead of a member of management, in a desperate attempt to turn the Canucks luck around.