Draft notebook: If Makar was available, Canucks could have been sweating

CHICAGO — Jim Benning faced a double dilemma Friday in the first round of the National Hockey League entry draft.
The Vancouver Canucks general manager always included Elias Pettersson on his wish list of playmaking centres and selected the slick Swede fifth overall.
However, had puck-moving, projected power-play quarterback Cale Makar slipped one spot from fourth to fifth, it might have got interesting.
A day before the draft, Benning said this: “Any time you can get a high-end offe