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Canucks this week: What the rest of the NHL is saying about the Canucks ahead of the draft and free agency

The NHL draft starts on Friday but the Canucks aren't waiting … Evander Kane is now a Canuck and there is a lot of speculation about what other moves are coming. It's common knowledge that the Canucks biggest need is a centre. Article content 'Let's just go with the simplest form of what the objective should be: Keep your captain happy. Find a way to keep Quinn Hughes happy at all costs,' said Frank Corrado on Sports Centre with Jay Onrait. Article content Article content TSN analyst Mike Johnson sums up the situation like this: '(The Canucks) are a team that almost feels like they got to make something happen or they got to be good this off season because if it goes wrong, Quinn Hughes to his credit has sort of acknowledged 'I think I might want to go play with my brothers in Jersey unless you give me a reason not to.'' Article content In the same conversation O-Dog, former NHLer Jeff O'Neill, makes the analogy, 'If you're just going to go ahead and put skinny jeans on a monster – it's not going to work.' Article content 'That's the Vancouver Canucks,' chimed in Overdrive host Bryan Hayes. Granted that was before Evander Kane signed but let's hope he's wrong. Keep in mind two of our three leading goal scorers from last season — Brock Boeser and Pius Suter — are pending UFAs and expected to sign elsewhere July 1. Article content Here's a round up of what the national pundits and saying: Article content Jamie McLennan for TSN – 'He brings some attitude. He brings some irritability. He's very tough to play against … I'll call him a unicorn in the National Hockey League because there's only a few players that play like him. I think of a guy like Brady Tkachuk. I think of a guy like Tom Wilson. He's a top six forward who can skate, shoot, hit, fight, score do it all. He's a combination of everything. But in that package is a big personality. Is a guy who can grate on either other teams or on his own team. But he is a guy that can be a difference maker.' Article content Elliotte Friedman on Sportsnet – 'This is the right time to do it if your Vancouver He's in his last year of his contract. He's going to be a highly motivated player, anytime you get a player who's playing for a new deal you think you are going to get the absolute best out of them on and off the ice.' Article content Article content 'Pretty tidy work. It highlights just how good of a player Kane is. The fact the Oilers were able to get something in return at all from Vancouver indicates there were other teams that were involved in the mix. It was obviously a priority for the Oilers to clear out salary cap space. That was their thought process, that's still their thought process, with what's to come with Viktor Arvidsson.