LATEST | The genius behind the Canucks' selecting Elias Pettersson finally identified
The 2017 Draft will go down in history as a turning point for the Canucks, the year they landed the fifth overall and were given to opportunity to land the superstar Swede Elias Pettersson.
PETTEY, NOT A UNANIMOUS CHOICE?
Trevor Linden, the former Canucks captain and team President of Hockey Ops, was on Sportsnet650 last and dropped a bombshell regarding the Canucks draft intentions back then. Linden revealed that Jim Benning's preffered selection wasn't sold in Pettey and that he probably would've chosen a different player.
Linden pushed hard so that the scouting staff would back their words more so that they would avoid the 2016 disaster (Juolevi VS. Tkachuk). Here's the sequence:
Now that it's history, we can have a better overlook of the situation and say that the Canucks definitely made the right choice. Elias Pettersson has grown into a very special player and the players that went afterwards never lived up to their full potential. Cody Glass (Vegas), Lias Andersson (New York R), Casey Mittelstadt (Buffalo), Michael Rasmussen (Detroit).
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