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I whole heartedly agree with your assessment. Although they say injury plagued teams need to work through adversity - where are some of those teams today? i.e. Edmonton. Or where are they going? i.e. Ottawa. I believe they should have given Dave Nonis another year. Thank you for not "selling the farm" when it did not make sense. Thank you for obtaining a goaltender a team can be built around.

Yep lets hope that F.A. 's ego will not get in the way of hiring the right guy. Maybe bring in Tevor Linden similar to what the NY Islanders did with Garth Snow.

Nonis deserved one more year (to the end of his and Vigneault's current contracts) to finish the job he started. He was building from the net out and was successful in bringing in a top goaltender and building a solid defense corp. He was saddled by large contracts from the Burke era on offense and this summer was finally getting the salary cap room to make the necessary changes up front without giving away the farm in trades or free agent signings.

It is simply one year too early to judge his work.

Unless there is something internally sub-par with Nonis that the fan base and media don't understand this move does tend to confirm the fear that the new ownership style will be overly meddling and controlling.

The next guy had better be good (Jim Nill?) or fans will stay away in protest. It wasn't that many years ago that the Canucks were playing to far less than a full house. Ownership had better not kid itself that it can't happen again with the ticket prices of today.

I just dont understand how you fire a guy who hasn't really made a colossal error. This is a team in a rebuild phase, and the guy didn't gte the chance to finish the job.

Awesome write up and well stated. It is TOTALLY unfair that Nonis had to go and I think it is an insult to him. We all know it takes more than a manaer to win a game--and the team--plays as a team --wins together and loses together--sadly--it just wasn't to be

I whole heartedly agree with your assessment. Although they say injury plagued teams need to work through adversity - where are some of those teams today? i.e. Edmonton. Or where are they going? i.e. Ottawa. I believe they should have given Dave Nonis another year. Thank you for not "selling the farm" when it did not make sense. Thank you for obtaining a goaltender a team can be built around.

Well written and I agree with your view. It is just another case of the players didn't get it done and the easiest way out was fire the GM!

Nonis deserved one more year (to the end of his and Vigneault's current contracts) to finish the job he started. He was building from the net out and was successful in bringing in a top goaltender and building a solid defense corp. He was saddled by large contracts from the Burke era on offense and this summer was finally getting the salary cap room to make the necessary changes up front without giving away the farm in trades or free agent signings.

It is simply one year too early to judge his work.

Unless there is something internally sub-par with Nonis that the fan base and media don't understand this move does tend to confirm the fear that the new ownership style will be overly meddling and controlling.

The next guy had better be good (Jim Nill?) or fans will stay away in protest. It wasn't that many years ago that the Canucks were playing to far less than a full house. Ownership had better not kid itself that it can't happen again with the ticket prices of today.

Only thing subpar about Dave Nonis is that he was not hired by this ownership group. Therefore they had no loyalty towards him, and made him a public whipingboy when the injuries proved to be too much for this team to overcome.

How much would anyone bet that even if Nonis had of made a season saving trade at deadline time, but this team bowed out in round 1 due to lack of depth that ownership would have fired him? This time due to lack of foresight re: injuries and lack of depth in the system to cover for said injuries!! My opinion is that whatever Dave Nonis did this year, short of winning the Holy Grail that tey would find some reason to fire him.

I fear that the Vancouver Canucks have been taken over by the Vancouver version of the Harold Ballard family, and this club will slink back into mediocrity from where it was being rescued from. Maybe the ownership should look at how real owners run stable organizations, Like Detroit & Montreal to name a couple and resist imitating the Torontos and Chicagos of the NHL...

The next GM whoever that may be will be stepping into a far healthier team than Dave Nonis did when he assumed the GM chair, but will be made to look like a genius and therefore the Aquilinis will be geniuses, but all due to the solid foundation that has been laid by a man that was not given his full term to do as he said he would do. And that would be Mr. Nonis. Thanks for all your efforts in building this team properly Dave, best of luck to you and your family in the future. And may you go on to another fortunate NHL team and truly show this short sighted, panic stricken ownership family that they truly Screwed up by not allowing you to finish what you started..

ps: if the next GM in some cheap imitation I hope fans stay away in droves, to protest this rotten treatment of a good man that has done everything he has said he would do. Unfortunately maybe it wasn't in Italian!lol (sarc)

Respects

I couldn't agree with you more Tom. Thanks for speaking up.

I couldn't agree with you more Tom. Thanks for speaking up.

Thanks for your kind words. Im just nervous that the ownership has taken us down the wrong path, where loyalty and pateince are not rewarded, but rashness and knee-jerk reactions are. I hope we do not become Toronto West....

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Excellent write up Tom!! Nonis did at least deserve the summer to see what he could do. Mike Gillis now has $20 million and a 10th pick entry draft to add to this team. So guess who will get the credit? Gillis was I think hired to be Acquilini's yes man, where Nonis stood by his plan and ownership did not want to wait for Nonis to complete his five year plan. I wish Nonis well; he will bounce back; unfortunately not with the Canucks

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