Are you going to let this management group make the big cuts for the Canucks?
Now my big question though is are you going to let this management team do the big cuts? You know I had I had someone from another team and this is obviously so it’s it’s coming from another organization but said that they had heard some rumblings that potentially wholesale changes like top tobottom management scouting like big big changes could be coming to the Canucks. And so if that’s the case, it’s like, yeah, you know, you probably let these guys move out some, you know, upcoming UFAS, but are you really going to let him do a Quinn Hughes trade? Are you really going to let him make these big things that are going to really alter the course of the future for this organization?
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The only thing that needs imminent change is the ownership group.
So we went from Petey-Bo-Miller to Petey-Kampf-Raty down the middle while defence only improved on paper.
They botched some key decisions: 1) trading Bo, yes we got Hronek but trading Miller would have net us a 1st rounder needed to get Hronek anyways. 2) letting Lindholm and Zadorov walk. MPetey may be a better defensive defenceman but Zadorov brings physicality and more offence as we saw in the playoffs. If they didn't botch Bo vs Miller decision in the first place, we wouldn't have needed to re-sign Lindholm. But with Miller aging, they should have planned in advance for the likely chance that Miller is traded or worse off, declines and needs to shift to wing. If we kept Lindholm, our center depth now is Petey-Lindholm-Raty, where Lindholm and Raty are righties with excellent faceoff abilities. Lindholm was a Selke finalist, a perfect player to compliment Petey now. Letting one walk was understandable given the cap situations, but letting both walk was a failure. 3) Finally, the cap management. I think OEL buyout was stupid at the time and I still feel that way about it. OEL didn't gel with Tocchet but that should not have ben the reason to buy him out. The coach that refuses to work with a player should not have been hired in the first place and where is Tocc now? OEL is overpaid but still serviceable. I honestly don't see much loss in paying OEL @7mil vs MPetey @5.5.
All in all, we had multiple paths to build a team around Hughes and Petey but JR and PA failed miserably at their jobs. I think one could argue that they are worse than Benning because Benning started with nothing while JR-PA started with so many pieces to work with.
How does an organization that literally practices in a clanky university rink across town, players changing on old wooden benches designed for children, sound serious when it comes to the massive investment in a wholesale restart of all levels of the franchise?
They need to move Hughes. He's clearly done. As bad as that is, and you will not replace him, you have no choice. Think Matty Tkathuk.