Five Years Later: Grading Vancouver's 2021 Draft Haul and the Prospects Still in the Pipeline

The Canucks' 2021 draft class is now old enough to tell us whether Jim Benning and his scouting staff nailed it or whiffed spectacularly, and this deep dive into the organization's prospect pool reveals which lottery tickets have actually cashed. Beyond the draft picks themselves, Vancouver's trade acquisitions and free agent signings from that era are either paying dividends or serving as cautionary tales about prospect evaluation.