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  1. I'm skeptical of this coaching staff lead by a criminal with a losing record. Foote and Gonchar were fine players but that doesn't necessarily mean shit all when it comes to coaching, Gretzky did everything Gretzky did and was awful. They're all just placeholders as this organization tries to figure it's shit out. Retool, yeah right, more like a rebuild. Call it what you will, we're in for more pain. Hopefully they at least commit to a direction instead of trying to take shortcuts like the last regime but I doubt it.
  2. That's.. admittedly an odd one. Weird reading that coming from Forbes.
  3. I'm okay with letting Bruce go, I am upset about how they handled it though. It reflects extremely poorly on the franchise and I think the fan reaction speaks to that on some level. I don't think anyone was pretending the team was good, I think most realize he wasn't going to last, but he was very well liked and the fan reaction was backing him as a person. JR seems tone deaf when it comes to handling this market at times, the retool bit wasn't a good moment. The language around that matters and there's history there in recent years. Wasn't it Linden who said rebuild? Seems taboo, I wish they'd just lean into it. It'd probably go over better. Hard to say, I think we need to see moves sooner than later. The longer it drags out the uglier it's likely to get, although I understand trades are complex and so is negotiating. It also depends on what they do, I don't believe a Horvat trade is enough. The draft, that's loaded too, as it's very dependent on our record from here on out. They're damned if they go on any significant stretch, management would be wise to actually sell.
  4. Probably not, at least there's a firm direction. "Retool" was never going to go over well after the years of supposed retooling we just had under Benning.
  5. It didn't have to get to that point, they could have fired him at any point. Even Green didn't get this far into the kind of season we've had this go round. They could have just gone with an interim guy at any point. JR could have kept his mouth shut or at least denied it, they allowed this to become a circus. Bruce was going to go, it was just a matter of when. It's the how that has people's feathers ruffled. I don't disagree with him being let go, it's a mercy at this point. I do disagree with trotting him out as a dead man walking every day to try and line up an easy stretch of games for your incoming guy though. As a fan I can see that for what it is. It hasn't, how much we suck is a constant source of conversation here, reddit, HF, and so on.
  6. That's the wild part, this isn't even just a regional thing anymore, we've had the entire league watching our tire fire this season.
  7. They would have kept their mouths shut and just fired him. The Canucks have been far too public on a number of matters this season, Bruce being one of them. What kind of president openly admits to the media that they've been poking around for replacements?
  8. I mean, I'd take it.. Anything to get them more wins. I'd rather literally anyone get Bedard but them.
  9. They're trying to set Tocchet up with some easy wins to try and win over the fanbase. Won't work, wins will just piss us off more.
  10. The Canucks reputation is in shambles. Sucks, the players obviously care, none of them will forget how this has played out. Not a single one.
  11. Yup, just think of the stuff they haven't been caught on too. Maybe. He'll never shut down Reddit though, Canuck fans are on his ass. Not shocking.
  12. In case you want insight into how awful the Aquilini's are
  13. Tough to watch. Yup, the reputation of this team is even more shambolic than it was going into the season. It's rubble, burnt to the ground. He'll be coming in with no rope from the fanbase, he's just an extension of an inept management group.
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