The Vancouver Canucks enter the season with two goals.The first is to qualify for the playoffs. The other is to incorporate youth into the lineup.If balancing competitiveness and development sounds like a tricky proposition, Canucks general manager Jim Benning isnt concerned.I dont think it has to be mutually exclusive, Benning said. We want our young players to develop in a winning environment so they learn to play the right way.To that end, Benning traded for former Panthers defenseman Erik Gudbranson and Bruins right winger Loui Eriksson. Benning hopes that the duo, along with Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Alex Edler and some of the other veterans can mentor the youngsters, including Sven Baertschi, Bo Horvat and Jake Virtanen.When you acquire players with experience, they can help our young players, hold them accountable the right way, Benning said. I think you can do a balancing act of trying to draft well, develop your players well and still try to compete and try to make the playoffs.Vancouver has missed the playoffs two out of the last three seasons and the challenge wont be any easier this season in a division with San Jose, Los Angeles and Anaheim.Here are some areas to keep an eye on over the course of the season:OFFENSIVE UPGRADEVancouvers 2.27 goals per game ranked 29th in last season. Enter Eriksson, who had a 30-goal campaign with Boston in 2015-16.When we kind of digested what happened with the team over the course of the year, said Benning, we thought adding a skilled player like Loui would help our group.SWEET SWEDESEriksson is Swedish. So, too, are Daniel and Henrik Sedin. Is it fait accompli that the trio will be a line for the entirety of the season?No, Benning said. We acquired Loui because hes a good hockey player. Hes versatile. He can play left wing or right wing. He can play on your first power play, he can kill penalties. Hes a guy that whatever line hes on, he makes that line better. Hes also a guy that you could move to another line and get that line going.MUSCULAR `DThe trend in the NHL is to emphasize speed and skill over size and power. Yet in trading for Gudbranson, the Canucks brought in a defenseman known for his brawn. Why? I just felt on our back end last year maybe we werent hard enough to play against, Benning said. He brings a hardness and a steadiness to our group back there.YOUTH MOVEMENTThe Sedins and Eriksson are known offensive commodities. But if the Canucks are to qualify for the playoffs, Benning is hoping for production from Baertschi, Horvat, Virtanen and Brandon Sutter. Baertschi finished with 28 points in 69 games. Horvat recorded 40 points in 82 games. 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Jonathan Lucroy was charged with the at-bat and an out, and Braun led off the second inning.On the lineup distributed in the press box, Braun was indeed listed third -- his regular position in the batting order -- and Lucroy was fourth. But apparently that was not the case on the card delivered to the umpires before the game.Obviously, against Max Scherzer youre not going to get too many opportunities to have baserunners, Braun said. So it was a challenging way to start the day.Despite the mixup, the Brewers won the game, beating the Nationaals 1-0.ddddddddddddAccording to Retrosheet.org, the last time a team batted out of order was Sept. 4, 2013, when the Texas Rangers did so in the ninth inning against the Oakland Athletics after a number of lineup changes in a blowout loss. 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