Who needs the playoffs when you’ve got the NHL Entry Draft to get excited about, right? RIGHT? That’s the line of thinking you’ll need to start becoming comfortable with if you’d like to sleep at night in the coming weeks, as you watch other compete for the Stanley Cup while your favourite team doesn’t.

Whenever things aren’t going all that well in the present, a good compensatory mechanism is to look ahead to the future. That all starts tonight, as the ping pong balls will be picked and the draft order for June 27th’s event in Philadelphia will be determined. 

The Canucks head into it with a 6.2% chance of winning the 1st overall pick. Let’s hope the team didn’t start Jacob Markstrom and Mike Zalewski in the final games of the season all for nothing.