Omg, everyone calm down. IF Canucks management don't have a GM in place by the draft, I am comfortable with linden making the pick, under the advisement of the scouts, you know he will do his DD if called upon.
As for benning, I wouldn't let him go before the draft either, if I was his current team.
You can also look at it this way. IF the Canucks are preparing to go to the draft without a GM, and IF Boston is withholding benning till after the draft. Then the signs can still concievably point to Benning becoming the new Canucks GM.