Vancouver Canucks
- We are in desperate need of some offensively gifted prospects. We're pretty set in goal for the future with Schneider, Ellis and Vincent plus Auld and Noronen on the big club already, and our pipeline at D looks pretty good too with Bourdon, Edler, Bieksa, Koltsov etc. waiting in the wings.
The biggest thing we lack is a true sniper that can fill the void that Naslund will leave behind once he retires or is moved to another team. We have Jason King who will one day be a decent 2nd liner but will never be a guy who will score a ton on a 1st line.
Everybody else at the forward position are depth guys with grit and work ethic that will mostly translate into 3rd liners.
So, our biggest need is to add some skill, some speed and some creativity with the puck. Ideally the guy we take is a center with size who uses it and plays physically. We've never had a true #1 Center and we were close when we drafted R.J. Umberger but everybody knows how that turned out.
With that said though, despite our obvious lack of skill in our prospect pool Dave Nonis won't go out of his way to take somebody that fits that mold. If the BPA is a defenceman or a goaltender (highly doubt he'd take a 'tender though) he'll take them.
I don't really know at this point who I would like to see the Canucks grab but my dream is Peter Mueller no matter how unrealistic that chance is. No, he's not the most physical player but he does have loads of skill and I've been very very impressed with him this season and he's been the Silvertips' best player in their series against the Giants. If Nonis can move up in the draft and take him I'd be over the moon. I'm not holding my breath though.