What is going on in Vancouver?
Vancouver Canucks president Jim Rutherford met with the media yesterday after they fired GM Patrik Allvin. His comments sure did open up more questions about what is going on Vancouver, and where are they headed.
Thomas Drance: Rutherford: “I take full responsibility for the season. I head up the hockey department, but I don’t make decisions for other people and Patrik had the opportunity to make his own decisions.”
Frank Seravalli: “So, Patrik Allvin was “GM” in name only, Jim Rutherford drove the bus on nearly any consequential transaction, and he ran over Allvin today on the way out … then backed over him again. Just to be sure. I’d say it always ends bloody in Vancouver. But that’s devoid of leadership.”
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“I think a good part of all of us look at this and say, ‘The guy that didn’t make the decisions got fired for the decisions that were made, that got the Vancouver Canucks into the place where we find them right now.’
I’ve always told my kids, go to the dictionary and rip the word ‘fair’ out because it doesn’t exist, and it just sets you up for disappointment.
But it is, I think, a pretty clear indication here that this is, you know, one of the first shoes to drop, dominoes to fall, in what is going to be a restructuring of the Vancouver Canucks front office.”
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Taj: “Rutherford thought RJ should takeover at GM but couldn’t sell it to ownership (yet)…But he’s in charge to find the next guy when they already turned down his number 1 choice? How does any of this make sense.”
Farhan Lalji: Rutherford said that the Nashville Predators haven’t asked the Canucks for permission to speak with Ryan Johnson.
Rutherford added that he won’t give other teams permission to speak with Ryan until they have named a new GM.
The fate of the Canucks coaching staff will have to wait
Irfaan Gaffar: It is sounding like when the Canucks hire a new GM, he will decide the fate of head coach Adam Foote and his coaching staff. There are going to be other organizational changes and they won’t rush into any big decisions.
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Rutherford knew for a while that Quinn Hughes didn’t want to stay in Vancouver
Taj: “Rutherford went up there and admitted he knew Hughes was leaving when they traded a 1st round pick for Marcus Pettersson. How is he not fired on the spot after that?”
Thomas Drance: Rutherford on Quinn Hughes: “Some people think Quinn left here because the team wasn’t good, and I think he was leaving anyway. And the best example I can give you is Matthew Tkachuk.
He was in Calgary, they had a good team, and he left anyway.”
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He wanted to go back to the U.S. I’m close to (Quinn), I really like him and I respect what he did in Vancouver. Guys work toward free agency and we should respect the fact that he had that option and that he was going to exercise that option.”
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