Anthony Donati

he's just very special in terms of the vision, the hockey IQ, the playmaking ability that he can bring to a team, especially one that has Austin Matthews and Matthew knives and Nylander already there.

And Tavares, I mean, that's just a great core to build around with McKenna, but in terms of like going back to his D minus one year and the WHL playing for medicine hat tigers, he was incredible there too.

And going into the NCAA as a freshman and,

You know, he had really good stats.

They weren't celebrating or fans, but I think, you know, both of what everybody was talking about was just the ability of him getting better throughout the season.

I don't, I never dropped him from my number one.

I think that, you know, recency bias and if a player does really well on this tournament or especially after the world juniors were,

Some people had him as the number one, but, you know, I think Gavin McKenna just has some special upside, especially offensively, that keeps him as my number one guy.

And, you know, Stenberg is very, very good, too, and very talented, and he has a great B game.

But I just don't think he showed enough to push off McKenna from that pedestal.

Yeah, it's a very intriguing situation for the Canucks because obviously they have Manny Malhotra as head coach, but they also have the Sabine twins as their presidents.

And obviously Ivar Stenberg was nearly at 40 points in an SHL season when he's 18 years old.

And the last person to do that was actually Daniel Sabine.

So I think it's very interesting when you kind of look at the complexity of what the Canucks have to do here and the decision they have to make if Stenberg and Malhotra are both there.

which presumably they will be, but in terms of what you're getting out of kill them a whole.

A very above average high end and it's the ability to have the size at six to have the shot, you know, the defensive game.

that Caleb Hulcher brings.

He sacrifices his body, sacrifices points for the betterment of his team.

You go back to that Brantford Bulldogs team, and they have seven first-round picks.

I mean, he was play-driving on a line with Cooper Dennis, who's also a 2026 draft eligible, but the top line was