On their search for a future No. 1 center — or at least an additional one for the top six — the Canucks will of course have their sight on some of this year’s top prospects. Nico Hischier and Nolan Patrick are most likely out of reach, but that still leaves guys like Gabriel Vilardi, Cody Glass or Elias Pettersson as targets for fifth overall.
But what if they go with a defenseman in the first round? And what if they just want to pick up an additional center despite selecting one of the aforementioned candidates fifth overall?