The NHL Scouting Combine has concluded, and the NHL Draft is less than three weeks away now.This portion of the offseason represents the calm before the storm. The last two weeks of June will be a whirlwind, punctuated by a deluge of transactions, draft picks and hockey news.For Ryan Johnson and the new-look Vancouver Canucks front office, this is a moment to gather your thoughts, finalize your plans, review the data, build out your staff and go about making the sorts of rebuilding moves that will be necessary to alter the trajectory of this listing franchise. The stakes will be high, especially at this draft.Since the offseason began, The Athletic has conducted Canucks-specific mock drafts at regular intervals, an exercise designed to capture where things stand based on the best available information we can gather. Scott Wheeler pitched in for our first mock draft after the draft lottery, and Corey Pronman guided this exercise for us in the lead-up to the combine a couple of weeks ago.Now that the combine is in the books, I figured I’d quarterback a third Canucks mock draft as a way of recapping everything that I heard and gathered in Buffalo, N.Y., last week during the combine.Once again, we’ll be using Will Scouch’s mock draft simulator at scouching.com to simulate the picks made by non-Canucks teams. I’ll be making the picks on Vancouver’s behalf, based on what I believe the club is most likely to do if this scenario were to occur on draft day.With that, let’s get into this third iteration of our Canucks mock draft.PickTeamPositionPlayer1Maple LeafsLWGavin McKenna2SharksLW/RWIvar Stenberg3CanucksCCaleb MalhotraFor our third consecutive mock, the two high-end wingers atop the draft — Gavin McKenna and Ivar Stenberg — have gone off the board first and second. That’s left the Canucks to select Caleb Malhotra, who is the consensus top centre in this draft class.There are some niche arguments in favour of Viggo Björck as the best centre, but that’s decidedly outside of the consensus. That the two teams that took Björck out for dinner in Buffalo last week — the Seattle Kraken and Florida Panthers — are both picking outside of the top five speaks volumes about where his range realistically begins.If the top two picks go chalk, then there are also several high-end defenders for the Canucks to consider with the third pick, principally right-handed blueliner Chase Reid — who measured in at 6-foot-3 during combine testing day — and hard-nosed left-handed blueliner Carson Carels. Of the two defenders that seem to be battling it out to be the first defender selected on draft day, I generally prefer Carels’ profile and think he’s a worthy selection at No. 3.For what it’s worth, I haven’t heard the Canucks linked as closely to Carels throughout this draft process as I’ve heard them linked to Reid.