Frank Seravalli

Although Rutherford himself will not be the one to decide on the players picked.

He later added that this draft could be a game changer for the Canucks and

If the staff hits on three or four players, which is a big ask, it should be noted.

The Canucks have four picks in the first, what?

41.

41 or 42 players.

So, you know, you can tell all year.

That when Jim Rutherford talks about the draft, he's like, you know, this is massive for the organization.

And part of me wonders if part of the message from Rutherford to ownership has been like, hey, don't worry.

We'll only need to do this once.

We'll only need to do this once.

This is a multi-year process.

And who out of this year's draft is going to be playing on the Canucks next season?

Possibly none of them.

Rutherford went on and said they've interviewed a lot of people for the GM position, a good cross section of people in the hockey world.

The list is narrowed down to five now, and they're digging deeper and deeper into the remaining candidates.

A decision should hopefully come by next week.

Ownership, according to Rutherford, is very active in the search process, along with Jim himself.

He said there's been a lot of interesting people, a lot of interesting ideas with how those candidates would approach things with the Canucks and said it's going to be a tough decision.

Now, I want to play some audio.