On June 23rd, 2017 when Elias Pettersson first slipped on the jersey of the Vancouver Canucks no one knew then that the scrawny kid would become the first of the Canucks’ magic men. When he then proceeded afterward to tear up the SHL and garner every offensive award available to him, fans started to get an inkling of just how special he might be.
A year later, Judd Brackett tuned out the white noise from Canucks’ Twitter and chose a very thin Tyler Madden over a bulkier and then more productive Jake Wise, no one except perhaps him knew that another future “Magic Man” was about to be born for the Canucks.