NHL Draft Live: What are the Canucks going to do in Round One?
Friday will be a consequential day in the future of the
Vancouver Canucks
, one way or another.
As things stand, they hold the 15th overall pick in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft.
The general feeling is they'll trade the pick — GM Patrik Allvin admitted earlier this week that he's had talks about trading back and he and president Jim Rutherford have also said in the past they recognize they'll likely have to make a trade to grab the second-line centre they covet, which surely will come at the cost of their first round pick.
We'll see how that goes…
Check back here as the afternoon progresses — the draft is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. — and we'll give you our Canucks-centred analysis as the round progresses.
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