VANCOUVER — Braeden Cootes sounds like Bo Horvat.

We don’t mean his voice, literally, although Cootes does seem to possess the same maturity and older-than-a-teenage soul that Horvat brought to the Vancouver Canucks a little more than a decade ago.

It’s the thumbnail scouting report, the National Hockey League projections, for Cootes that make the Canucks’ first-round pick from June feel a little like Horvat 2.0.

If you think back to that chaotic draft in New Jersey in 2013, when former Canucks general manager Mike Gillis traded goalie Cory Schneider to the Devils for the right to select Horvat 13th, Vancouver was getting a sturdy, character centre with leadership qualities, a guy who might not be a star but embraced a reliable two-way game.

Even with a modest offensive ceiling, Horvat

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