[Report] Canucks fire Bruce Boudreau, Trent Cull; name Rick Tocchet as head coach, Adam Foote as assistant coach, Sergei Gonchar as defensive development coach

[Gurn]

Mods- please open up the emoji list.

[Alflives]

1 minute ago, shiznak said:

Only speculating, but I’m pretty sure Hughes, Boeser, and Pettersson is part of that “country club” atmosphere.

Hughes and Petey are ppg, high minute guys who are plus layers on a team that gives up a crapload of goals.  No country club in those two.  

[awalk]

I have no objection to this new staff, I really liked Foote and Gonchar as players.

 

But I'm disgusted by the way this whole thing has played out. Our organization is a clown car and the wheels have fallen off.

[Timråfan]

Finally Cull gone… So something good happened also. 

[VforVasili]

6 minutes ago, aGENT said:

Pretty much where I am.

 

Love Bruce as a person but he wasn't coaching this team to play with structure or puck support, regardless of what I may think of the roster. He had to go.

 

If Tocchet and Co. can come in and get them to do so/help sort out the guys who won't, I'll set aside how I feel about him personally, and cheer on the team and their improved play.

Agree 100%. 
 

In some ways I am also glad Bruce left this team as a beloved legend, rather than sticking around long enough for us to fail in the playoffs in future years and become hated for it. 
 

He wasn’t exactly known for playoff success elsewhere. Better to work on a defensive systems with a new coach. Will reserve my opinions until I see what they do with the team. 

[Barnstorm]

2 minutes ago, Crabcakes said:

I put the whole Boudreau saga on Aquilini.  He never wants to make a change to an important management piece unless he has a replacement fully vetted and ready to step in.  FA reportedly flew to Vegas last week to meet with Tocchet.  He's given approval and Rutherford pulled the trigger within a week.

I read Tocchet was required to give the tv network where he worked 4 weeks notice of leaving. 
If that’s true and he honoured his contract this decision was made prior to Christmas 2022. 

[5nothincanucksohno]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/rick-tocchet-pleads-guilty-to-gambling-charges-1.242663?cache=yesclipId104062%3FautoPlay%3Dtrue%2Fmarvel-at-the-milky-way-where-to-stargaze-across-canada-1.4007454

 

Hadn't heard about this...new mgmt is definitely bringing in people who will do anything to win...we shall see where this goes. Could be the no holds bars approach needed or could be a dumpster fire. Let s hope for the former.

[PhillipBlunt]

23 minutes ago, RWJC said:

I wonder if some of the posters here will redirect and be as self-loathing if proven wrong by these moves. If you’re not going to support the franchise because of this, then i politely wish you good riddance. No offense meant but very easy for people to get caught up in emotion and not think straight.

Years of ineptitude but the entire focus is on Bruce’s treatment. So easily forgotten how little heart this team has shown.
I understand it’s fresh and raw, but real fans will give this chaos a chance to sort itself out and perhaps/very hopefully  build a winner out of catastrophe or at very least some improvement. 
 

shit has gone down in a very distasteful manner but don’t lose sight that this club has gone through 53 years of mediocrity. 
we deserve better, even if it’s painful and pulls at the heartstrings to try and get there.
 

GCG
 

 

 

People are pissed about this because they’re Canucks fans and thought that the whole organization should have done better and handled the situation with a lot more couth and compassion. 
 

The whole organization is mired in mediocrity right now and plenty of fans are embarrassed by the tone deaf decisions this management has made. 

[Muttley]

Is Jim Rutherford out of friends yet?  

[Warhippy]

Oof....

 

https://twitter.com/passittobulis/status/1616945918049419264

 

 

Edited January 22 by Warhippy

[King Heffy]

1 minute ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Maybe jumping onto the lifeboats is self-presevervation. You can brag about going down with the ship. Ever thought that as much as we love the team, this is too much B.S. for two seasons in a row for some to handle?

 

Thank you.  After the day we just had for mental health, it's worth keeping in mind how important it is to take care of yours! 

[EddieVedder]

Wait... yeo and king not fired? Wtf

[tas]

3 minutes ago, Timråfan said:

Finally Cull gone… So something good happened also. 

little jonny's ghost will rest easy. 

[mikeyman109]

Im not expecting much from the team, as long as Tocchet is the coach. Yeo is and has been a loser all through his coaching career . There was no reason to expect  it would change. I knew we were in trouble when they changed the coaching staff and hired him of all people. to support Bruce. Tocchet is a loser coach as well.

 

When we hired Crawford as a coach you knew things would improve because he had just wont a Stanley cup in Colorado.

When we hired AV he had a good run in Montreal and Manitoba.

What we should have done this time was look to the assistant coaching ranks of teams that either won a cup or have been able to play into June. Someone off the Avalanche staff or Tampa. Someone with a winning pedigree. Hiring a coach that has lost at every level; like Yeo, or one that has had basically no success at the NHL level like Tocchet tells me we are in for a few years of losing and JR needs a scapegoat coach. Tocchet is that coach. Yes we need a re build. Yes we needed changes. How we went about it, who we hired and what direction we go now doesnt look too bright for the foreseeable future.

 

This feels like when the hired Bill Laforge and his PHD pride hustle and desire disaster. Wanting accountability and knowing how to get it from the players is two different things.

So much dysfunction in canuckville. Its just keeps going on.

[EddieVedder]

Wait... yeo and king not fired? Wtf

[Fanuck]

5 minutes ago, Crabcakes said:

I put the whole Boudreau saga on Aquilini.  He never wants to make a change to an important management piece unless he has a replacement fully vetted and ready to step in.  FA reportedly flew to Vegas last week to meet with Tocchet.  He's given approval and Rutherford pulled the trigger within a week.

Sadly our owner is an accused criminal,  and our coach is a convicted criminal,  never did I see this day coming. Their meeting likely discussed a lot of common topics......

[Ghostsof1915]

3 minutes ago, shiznak said:

Only speculating, but I’m pretty sure Hughes, Boeser, and Pettersson is part of that “country club” atmosphere.

I'm going by Petey's play. He never seems to "give up" and he hates losing. I'd say he, Kuz and Mik are probably pieces you might want to hold onto.

Hughes has looked dejected from early in the season. I don't think he's happy here. I'd move Miller, Hughes, Horvat, Garland. That should give you at least 2 first rounders and prospects as a starter. Maybe a couple of 2nd rounders too. Salvage what you can with Brock. Trade Myers after his bonus.

[Nucks780]

This is the first of many more changes that need to be done.

Thank you Bruce. Hopefully he can find an opportunity somewhere else.

[-DLC-]

Did y'all notice the guy who stayed on the bench with Bruce as he broke down?

 

(Sure....maybe some will chime in with "yeah but Bruce is part of why he's still here and he knows it". But, bottom line, JT's a guy who cares and this was his making a statement about his coach. Stand with him to the end...there's something admirable in that. Even IF it's because Bruce was a staunch supporter of JT...what goes around comes around stuff. It's important to me that he stood beside Bruce too).

[Jack Fig]

57 minutes ago, I.Am.Ironman said:

Well at least they brought in some assistant coaches with some pedigree.... as players. We will see how they coach. I still would have much preferred this to come at year end.

Loved Adam Foote as a player .... but he was fired after less than a year as head coach of the Kelowna Rockets ... even as his son was team captain. That doesn't bode well.