Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet that is entirely hand-drawn.

Speaking of hand-drawn, some lottery balls were hand-drawn on Tuesday for the 2026 NHL Draft Lottery, and, unfortunately, they were not the balls that the Vancouver Canucks were hoping for.

We’re not sure what’s worse, the Canucks losing the Draft Lottery or the Toronto Maple Leafs winning it, but the answer is probably both. Either way, the dream of Gavin McKenna being drafted by the Canucks is probably dead…but there’s always other stuff to dream about.

Other stuff, and other prospects. The Canucks are still left with the third overall selection in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, the pick they were always statistically most likely to end up with. And while it’s not first overall, the third pick is still an incredibly valuable one, and one that should guarantee a very, very good prospect.

But which prospect will that be? McKenna and Ivar Stenberg are head-and-shoulders above the rest of the 2026 Draft Class – though the San Jose Sharks may feel differently – and after that, it’s a real mixed bag of contenders across various rankings, including centre Caleb Malhotra and defenders Chase Reid, Keaton Verhoeff, and Carson Carels.

The Canucks can only take one of them. The rest will almost certainly be gone by the time Vancouver picks again, which leaves us with a fairly obvious question.

This week, we’re asking:

Let it be known in the comment section.

Some of you answered below! (It was a pretty light week for responses, which was understandable given the subject matter. We have a feeling we’ll get a lot more opinions with this current question…)

Anything that involves one of the limited Cinderella runs by the Canucks in the playoffs was great.

On games that didn’t impact standings, I always hoped for a bit of a blow-out so there would be more bantering between Cheech and Shorty.

Pretty much anything Howie Meeker ever said, especially with his tele-strator. Prime example: “Look at that defenseman, standing around counting the crowd.”

It’s harder to pick out specific moments than I imagined. John and John were such a consistently positive vibe, and maintained such a high level for so long, that they often just blended into the general experience of Canucks hockey. Some broadcasters are bombastic and spend half the broadcast screaming at one another, but Shorty and Cheech were significantly more chill, and thus never took away from the game itself. Maybe the best way this memory can be stated is like this: if you didn’t notice John and John explicitly while they were calling the games, you sure noticed when they were not.

For a franchise that has had so many ups and downs, perhaps the most consistent component of Canuck hockey that can be highlighted over the past decade-and-a-half was the presence of Shorthouse and Garrett in the booth. Maybe my favourite memory is just all the memories.

My favourite Canucks broadcasting memory (outside of slaying the dragon, of course) is when Shorty asked Cheech “was that you?” when Colin Delia’s one piece skate made an audible fart noise on the broadcast. It sparked one of my favourite stories I’ve ever written, where I went into the Canucks room ready to joke about fart noises with Delia and Spencer Martin, but turned it into a whole story about goalie equipment.