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Interestingly, NHL teams generally have a draft board that runs about 100 players deep and by the end of any draft — in 2017, 217 players were taken — not all of their ranked 100 will have been selected.

It’s indicative of how divergent the lists are from team to team. Once you get past the top 40 or so prospects, every team splinters in different directions because of how they rate and rank players.

The Canucks got a lot of value with the Palmu pick. In fact, there was a team drafting just after them in the sixth round that was probably going to grab him before Vancouver made the selection.

In other words, Palmu was valued by other teams and to get on their draft board those teams had to get past this one question: “How is a 5-6 player going to be strong enough to succeed in the NHL?”

It’s about the last thing you have to worry about when it comes to Palmu.

“He’s not overly big but he’s so strong. He’s built like a tank,” said Ryan Johnson, the Canucks’ director of player development.

“That strength for sure can make up for the height. He’s a 5-foot-6 guy who has no fear in him at all.”

Palmu is a gym rat. He looks like a guy who could stop cannonballs with his midsection.

It was fascinating to hear Johnson immediately think of Jonah Gadjovich when talking about him because Gadjovich was drafted, in part, because of his size.