If the things Mason says are fundamentally true, then it just confirms Torts was never the man for the job here...something many suspected right at his hiring. Too stubborn, too day-to-day, no ability to see past the end of his nose. The minute I saw he played Kesler 26 minutes in a pre-season game, I thought this guy didn't get the plot. Players on a west coast team complaining they didn't practice enough? The reddest of red flags right there. Not talking to Travis Green even once? Unfathomable. Dumping Burrows is basically the sanest of these peculiarities. There can hardly be any Canucks fans left who don't understand that he had to go.