When you say a good 5 months that's fine but looking at it closer doesn't help their cause.
They beat one really good team on their 8-0 stretch to start with Bruce and 1 good team on the 6-0 stretch that kept their season alive at the end of the year. They went one game above 500 since Bruce took over against teams that made the playoffs, is the confidence still as high?
It's all about expectations, sure there's 16 teams that don't make the playoffs and maybe the Canucks will be different and clean up against them next year, but if they don't and miss the playoffs without at least making one major change it should be nothing short of a disaster and frankly a waste of a year.