Here's a thought...

[TheNextOne]

the Canucks should just trade all of their picks every season away for solid established NHLers. They'll never draft anyone spectacular, so the cost of flipping their 1st rounder is nill

[1/2 Cab]

Hey, don't hate on Libor Polasek

Seriously, that wouldn't be a bad idea, given the team's track record at the draft.

[Atticuss]

You know a lot of people have been saying this to me lately, that the canucks cant draft worth ****.. Now I will agree that they dont draft superstars..... and they have made some bad 1st round choices lets look at the current canucks who have been drafted by the team. We will start in 94. Players who have one time played in a Canucks uniform and were drafted by the team!
1994
Matt Ohlund (1,13)
Dave Scatchard (2,42)
Bill Muckult (9,221)
Tyson Nash (10,247)
1995
Chris McAllister (2,40)
Peter Shaefer (3,66)
Brent Sopel (6,144)
1996
Josh Holden (bad pick 1,12)
Ok this all together is a bad draft year
1997
Brad Ference (traded for jovo in the bure deal 1,10)
Harold Druken (2,36)
Matt Cooke (6,144)
1998
Bryan Allen (1,4)
Artem Chubarov (2,31)
Jarko Ruutu (3,68)
1999
Daniel Sedin (1,2)
Henrik Sedin (1,3)
Now considering I wanted the nucks to draft Brendl and Lundmark with these picks.... no complaining here.
2000
Nathan Smith (1,23 I think burke was smoking something with this pick)
Brandon Reid (7,208...I heard he is thinking of going to europe :()
2001
RJ Umberger (1,16 the kid wouldnt sign oh well)
Fedor Fedorov (3,66)
Jason King (7,212)
2002
Ok who will most likely crack a nucks uni one day soon (in my oppinion)
Kirill Koltsov (2,49)
Ilia Krikunov (7,223)
02 has the possibilites of being a good draft year.
2003
Ryan Kesler (1,23)

My point is thats a hell of a lot of draft picks to have played for you when only about 30 new players a year enter the league....