Hassan

[Taj @taj1944]

And there are still people defending the Canucks for not forcing Hronek to waive.

[Pierre LeBrun @PierreVLeBrun]

Hearing that the Florida Panthers are getting close to acquiring Brady Tkachuk from the Ottawa Senators.
I believe Ottawa will get three first-round picks and a second-round pick in the deal if finalized. More to come.

[Treyarch @Treyarch]

It's official: the original Black Ops and Black Ops 2 are being ported to PlayStation in July, courtesy of our partners at @IronGalaxy. 🤝

[🇨🇦 @Naughty4Novotny]

Habs and Canucks both made regime changes at roughly the same time

One team rebuilt
One team tried to contend

One team is off to the conference finals
One team is 32nd in the league

[Hassan @spectre267]

@MikeK_mode 23 if Ducks win their series. 24 if they lose

[Harman Dayal @harmandayal2]

I don't think the #Canucks are ready for the backlash they'll face in this market if Pierre Dorion is hired as GM. That would legitimately be the last straw for a lot of fans with this team

[Hassan @spectre267]

@VCanucksNews @Flockbetterrr What OVR will the pick be if
Anaheim wins
Philly loses
Minny loses?

[Hassan @spectre267]

@Drazah @Brparadox @elias_weide @AustinKroney12

[Edward - Sapsterr @Sapsterr_]

**MEGAPOST**

The Canucks drafting and trading for a great group of players and developing none of them into leaders except the guy they traded first (Horvat) is hilarious.

EP40 - Introvert, acknowledges he isn't vocal, not a leader

JT Miller - Prickly, had multiple issues with different players in Vancouver, leads NYR to a bottom 5 pick, not a leader

Quinn Hughes - Articulate, but not a leader in the community or and didn't do enough in the locker room, not a leader.

Filip Hronek - The most prickly with media, vocal, but he was already a finished product more or less in Detroit

Thatcher Demko - Prickly with Fans and Media at times, wants to be here, according to Kevin Woodley, not a leader

Brock Boeser - Most in touch with the fanbase right now, elevates his game in late season + playoff games more than anyone else currently on the team, but his play disappears for long stretches and becomes invisible, not a leader

Bo Horvat - Good with the media, wasn't the most physically involved in scrums but was almost always in touch with the Canucks fanbase, and elevated himself in the clutch. The last captain to play with Daniel and Henrik Sedin.

It's almost like in order to create new leaders, you need to have an organization full of great leaders to show the young guys the ropes!

Canucks leadership at ownership and management have done the following since the Sedins left:

- Let Edler & Tanev go in b2b offseasons (players who became leaders under the Sedins)

- Laid off 25% of business staff in July 2020, and went from 200 to 45 full time business staff by November 2020

- Reduced Employee Wages 3 times in 3 months to the point where most employees were only being paid 65% of their initial salary and had to utilize the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy

- Let important pieces walk and replaced them with budget pieces (Tanev and Toffoli leaving for $8.75M combined and replacing them with Virtanen, Holtby, Poolman, all of whom were bought out or put on LTIR)

- Fired Green and Benning (needed at the time) and replaced them with Boudreau and Jim Rutherford without conducting a formal search, and didn't even tell JR about Boudreau's contract.

- Let JR run a half assed GM search where he hired his Pittsburgh buddy

- Treated Boudreau like garbage, publicly, fired him

- Told Horvat they were going to re-sign him, pivoted to Miller, and then traded Horvat, even though Miller was the problem at that point in time

- Extended Elias Pettersson against the coach's wishes, traded away his best linemate, had him play through knee tendonitis, lied about the injury, and then told Miller and Hughes to toughen him up (I think the contract at the time was fine, even if his production since has been abhorrent), furthering locker room dissension.

- Failed to retain Rick Tocchet, who despite being disliked by Canucks fans was valuable enough to Rutherford to treat Boudreau like dirt

- Hired Adam Foote to try and keep Hughes, and is clearly out of his element, but are (as of now) unwilling to move off of that mistake

- Are going to hire another rookie GM without doing a full on search, because JR wants to keep a lot of control

That doesn't even include all of the staff that have arrived and left rather quickly, some suddenly (Derek Clancey, Rachel Dorrie/Kryshak), the horrible medical staff, having 4 head coaches, 12 assistant coaches, their inability to develop highly skilled prospects, and lack of practice facilities

All of that, and they've increased season ticket prices by ~ 44% since 2022-23.

Leadership starts at the top with Ownership.

Bad ownership has hired bad presidents in both the business and hockey ops departments, and they hire puppet underlings, treat their subordinates like garbage, use them as fall guys, and that creates apathy and anxiety in employees, which trickles down into the workplace, locker room, and the fanbase as a whole.

Francesco Aquilini,

Sell. The. Team.

[Hassan @spectre267]

@TheGhostOfHope @MysticTheDon @CODUncensored @Sapsterr_

[Wyatt Arndt @TheStanchion]

This is still the same group that chased short term gains to the point it led to losing Quinn Hughes, and helped tanked the value of assets at this trade deadline.

Same group who made bad deals and brought in the wrong players, adding to this mess

[Hassan @spectre267]

@NiqBets26 💀

[Hassan @spectre267]

@xwleblancx @Sapsterr_ Leads the league among forwards in blocked shots despite missing many games lol. No idea what you’re watching if you think he’s soft and lazy right now

[Big Head Hockey @bigheadhcky]

Every single one of these players was acquired/already on the roster during Vancouver's rebuild.

They never acquired picks and built around the core properly but trading:

• Horvat
• McCann
• Forsling
• Kuzmenko
• Brzustewicz
• Bonino
• Podkolzin
• 2021 1st round pick | 9th overall (Guenther)
• 2024 1st round pick | 28th overall (Gridin)
• 2020 2nd round pick
• 2015 2nd round pick (Andersson)
• 2016 2nd round pick (Gustavsson)
• 2016 2nd round pick
• 2022 2nd round pick
• 2023 2nd round pick
• 2024 2nd round pick
• 2021 3rd round pick
• 2026 3rd round pick
• 2022 4th round pick
• 2024 4th round pick

And all you currently have to show for it is:

• Filip Hronek
• Conor Garland
• Evander Kane
• Aatu Raty
• Josh Bloom
• Ty Mueller
• $5.4m cap penalty from OEL

Is how they got to where they're at now.

[Brett @xBrett16]

Sell the team @fr_aquilini

[Edward - Sapsterr @Sapsterr_]

Meanwhile in Vancouver the fans are doing the wave while they're 32nd in the league and down multiple goals.

[Taj @taj1944]

Canucks have an owner that is more worried about playoff revenue than a Stanley Cup.

Canucks have a President of Hockey Ops that should be in retirement.

Canucks have a coach who couldn't coach in the WHL.

[Hassan @spectre267]

@DJHeerMusic 🤡

[Hassan @spectre267]

@Sinochick Wow wtf

[Hassan @spectre267]

@Louis_Boulet_ @LB_Hockey_ Hey can you send one for the Canucks