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In 2026, the Canucks need to put their focus on acquiring (and drafting) young forwards over everything else

The conventional wisdom holds that, in most scenarios, a hockey team should focus on landing the “Best Player Available.” This notion is typically tied most closely to the draft and tends to be seen as truer the higher one sits in that draft.

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