Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning needs to bolster the top six this offseason, and his first opportunity will come at the 2019 draft in June — where the team will pick 10th.
But adding one forward — hopefully a winger — won’t be enough to fix the lack of secondary scoring. Elias Pettersson and Bo Horvat need an extra winger on their respective lines. Ideally, Benning would draft one forward then sign another in free agency.
It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for Benning to break the bank on top free agents like Matt Duchene and Artemi Panarin.