I don’t care if he changes his wording later, he finally said it independently
January 11, 2026
I don’t care if he changes his wording later, he finally said it independently
31 comments
HE SAID THE WORD :’) PRAISE BE
Whoa whoa whoa.
Seriously, what date is this from?
THE R WORD NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD
Excellent! Let’s get some more draft picks rolling in!
I think most of our work will be done this summer.
When your so bad you can’t even sell the hybrid for a month
A Francesco Aquilini teams management has said the word rebuild twice, and they haven’t been sacked.
Pretty unprecedented times are coming.
I truly don’t understand this fanbases obsession with semantics. I don’t give a shit what they call it, I care about actions. If they make serious attempts to trade veterans, stockpile picks and prospects then I’ll be happy regardless if they call it rebuild, retool, reshuffle, hybrid whatever the fuck.
Here’s my read on the whole hybrid retool/rebuild thing. It’s semantics.
It’s not a rebuild in the traditional sense where all your veteran players get traded and you suck for five years because your prospects cupboard is bare. The Canucks want to bottom out for two years while still keeping your core veterans around for when the team competes again.
McKenna in 2026 and DuPont in 2027. Hope DuPont has a Schaefer-like season at 18 and compete in 2027-2028. Cootes will be in his third pro season. Players like Buium, Ohgren, Willander and Lekkerimaki are in their mid-20s and entering their prime. You hope a 1-2 of your later round picks hit: Mynio, Mueller, Patterson and Kudryavtsev.
This is the plan. Whether it works is to be seen.
He’ll change it as soon as they win two games in a row. There is no plan. Come on.
Probably signaling to the vets to be open to the idea of waiving NTCs cuz otherwise zero chance of playing for a playoff team.
Trade everyone and collect a million picks and prospects now pls
Aquilini out. Nothing else will solve this. Stop deluding yourself.
There’s no generational talents in the upcoming draft. I mean, they’re super rare. Not even Bedard made the Olympic team and we all thought he’d be “generational.”
One season of tank isn’t going to do it if Stanley Cup is the goal. The team needs to accrue 1st round picks for upcoming drafts too for a true rebuild. Try and land 1st round picks to contending teams and hope those contenders plummet in the near future so those picks are worth their weight in gold in the coming years is the long term planning this team needs.
Even landing the best player in the upcoming draft isn’t going to save the team. We had the best player in the draft when we drafted Hughes and the team stunk. The team needs many high picks over a sustained period of time.
That, combined with our promising young defenders might mean this could be a contending window team in the early 2030s, and that’s actually not too far off.
I’ll never believe it
Finally. Now the fans and media need to be patient. We want a rebuild but rebuilds means pain in the beginning.
Ownership has temporarily seen the light.
Now go trade for Dougie Hamilton with retainment and collect picks.
The terrifying thing about this is that it seems like they can’t accurately evaluate if the team is good or not. Allvin’s ridiculous ‘hybrid’ comment came amidst a post-Hughes winning streak that was absolutely fraudulent by every advanced metric, but now that the results have actually been representative for a stretch of games, they’re both willing to use the word rebuild.
When I hear Rutherford defending Allvin’s terminology, all I hear is him trying to walk back misplaced enthusiasm. Any rebuild wants veterans to guide their young players, so wanting to keep a couple doesn’t meaningfully differentiate it as a ‘hybrid’ strategy. All ‘hybrid’ ever meant was that they bought the fools gold early, which is a horrible sign for a management team. Combine that with their attempt to lie and say that they knew they were rebuilding after they traded JT, which they followed up by immediately trading a relatively high first, then later held their expiring UFAs at the deadline, and further proceeded to extend Garland and Demko after hearing that Hughes didn’t plan on staying, and I have increasingly little faith in this group to properly initiate this next phase.
Of course, Aquilini is comfortably one of the worst owners in professional sports, so he will prolong their firing (which he did with Benning to catastrophic detriment). I don’t think this could go nearly as bad as Jimbo’s end-of-tenure, but if they can’t move Sherwood, create a market for and move at least one other veteran (though they should be trying to move off of multiple, Garland, and DeBrusk if he can be convinced to waive, at a minimum), it will reek to high heaven.
He said it. Let’s see what actually happens. I have NO faith in this GM team and even less faith in the idiot owner.
When was this? I won’t believe it until I actively see it. Time to make some phone calls!
He’s already said in the past lol
Fans and media will not be patient. Media will keep everyone riled up to maintain their business model, even tho we all know we’ve got some tough years of losing ahead of us. And fans will take cues from the media and continue to denigrate the franchise, players, management and everyone’s favourite punching bag, the owner.
Ppl can have whatever opinion they want, but it’s getting more and more difficult to have a rational conversation about the team without fans going crazy over every damn thing that goes wrong. Media loves this shit, and sorry Jason Brough’s rants are tired and old. Same old shit. Is it too much to ask to keep calm, even a little bit? A lot of negativity is bad luck imo. The ppl who love ‘manifesting’ lol, know I’m right. Can’t manifest good stuff while being constantly upset.
You really think just by saying it, suddenly they make the right decisions? This group needs to go and let someone competent rebuild
Where will Foot Foot go, What will Foot Foot do, Oh Foot Foot I wish I could find you.
Point of order! Transitioning into something is not the same as that something.
Haha but he can’t help himself and has to toss in an additional word to confuse things “transitioning”. What the hell does that mean? We need to accomplish a few things first before we’re in a rebuild? Or it hasn’t started yet, we’re getting ready, and it’ll start at some point in the future?
31 comments
HE SAID THE WORD :’) PRAISE BE
Whoa whoa whoa.
Seriously, what date is this from?
THE R WORD NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD
Excellent! Let’s get some more draft picks rolling in!
I think most of our work will be done this summer.
When your so bad you can’t even sell the hybrid for a month
A Francesco Aquilini teams management has said the word rebuild twice, and they haven’t been sacked.
Pretty unprecedented times are coming.
I truly don’t understand this fanbases obsession with semantics. I don’t give a shit what they call it, I care about actions. If they make serious attempts to trade veterans, stockpile picks and prospects then I’ll be happy regardless if they call it rebuild, retool, reshuffle, hybrid whatever the fuck.
Here’s my read on the whole hybrid retool/rebuild thing. It’s semantics.
It’s not a rebuild in the traditional sense where all your veteran players get traded and you suck for five years because your prospects cupboard is bare. The Canucks want to bottom out for two years while still keeping your core veterans around for when the team competes again.
McKenna in 2026 and DuPont in 2027. Hope DuPont has a Schaefer-like season at 18 and compete in 2027-2028. Cootes will be in his third pro season. Players like Buium, Ohgren, Willander and Lekkerimaki are in their mid-20s and entering their prime. You hope a 1-2 of your later round picks hit: Mynio, Mueller, Patterson and Kudryavtsev.
This is the plan. Whether it works is to be seen.
He’ll change it as soon as they win two games in a row. There is no plan. Come on.
Probably signaling to the vets to be open to the idea of waiving NTCs cuz otherwise zero chance of playing for a playoff team.
https://preview.redd.it/6pziw6etyrcg1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c78d6bd94e9f78f5c715c99931e99d1c4d09bd9
Bring up the Abbotsford Canucks!
Trade everyone and collect a million picks and prospects now pls
Aquilini out. Nothing else will solve this. Stop deluding yourself.
There’s no generational talents in the upcoming draft. I mean, they’re super rare. Not even Bedard made the Olympic team and we all thought he’d be “generational.”
One season of tank isn’t going to do it if Stanley Cup is the goal. The team needs to accrue 1st round picks for upcoming drafts too for a true rebuild. Try and land 1st round picks to contending teams and hope those contenders plummet in the near future so those picks are worth their weight in gold in the coming years is the long term planning this team needs.
Even landing the best player in the upcoming draft isn’t going to save the team. We had the best player in the draft when we drafted Hughes and the team stunk. The team needs many high picks over a sustained period of time.
That, combined with our promising young defenders might mean this could be a contending window team in the early 2030s, and that’s actually not too far off.
I’ll never believe it
Finally. Now the fans and media need to be patient. We want a rebuild but rebuilds means pain in the beginning.
Ownership has temporarily seen the light.
Now go trade for Dougie Hamilton with retainment and collect picks.
The terrifying thing about this is that it seems like they can’t accurately evaluate if the team is good or not. Allvin’s ridiculous ‘hybrid’ comment came amidst a post-Hughes winning streak that was absolutely fraudulent by every advanced metric, but now that the results have actually been representative for a stretch of games, they’re both willing to use the word rebuild.
When I hear Rutherford defending Allvin’s terminology, all I hear is him trying to walk back misplaced enthusiasm. Any rebuild wants veterans to guide their young players, so wanting to keep a couple doesn’t meaningfully differentiate it as a ‘hybrid’ strategy. All ‘hybrid’ ever meant was that they bought the fools gold early, which is a horrible sign for a management team. Combine that with their attempt to lie and say that they knew they were rebuilding after they traded JT, which they followed up by immediately trading a relatively high first, then later held their expiring UFAs at the deadline, and further proceeded to extend Garland and Demko after hearing that Hughes didn’t plan on staying, and I have increasingly little faith in this group to properly initiate this next phase.
Of course, Aquilini is comfortably one of the worst owners in professional sports, so he will prolong their firing (which he did with Benning to catastrophic detriment). I don’t think this could go nearly as bad as Jimbo’s end-of-tenure, but if they can’t move Sherwood, create a market for and move at least one other veteran (though they should be trying to move off of multiple, Garland, and DeBrusk if he can be convinced to waive, at a minimum), it will reek to high heaven.
He said it. Let’s see what actually happens. I have NO faith in this GM team and even less faith in the idiot owner.
When was this? I won’t believe it until I actively see it. Time to make some phone calls!
He’s already said in the past lol
Fans and media will not be patient. Media will keep everyone riled up to maintain their business model, even tho we all know we’ve got some tough years of losing ahead of us. And fans will take cues from the media and continue to denigrate the franchise, players, management and everyone’s favourite punching bag, the owner.
Ppl can have whatever opinion they want, but it’s getting more and more difficult to have a rational conversation about the team without fans going crazy over every damn thing that goes wrong. Media loves this shit, and sorry Jason Brough’s rants are tired and old. Same old shit. Is it too much to ask to keep calm, even a little bit? A lot of negativity is bad luck imo. The ppl who love ‘manifesting’ lol, know I’m right. Can’t manifest good stuff while being constantly upset.
You really think just by saying it, suddenly they make the right decisions? This group needs to go and let someone competent rebuild
Where will Foot Foot go, What will Foot Foot do, Oh Foot Foot I wish I could find you.
Point of order! Transitioning into something is not the same as that something.
Haha but he can’t help himself and has to toss in an additional word to confuse things “transitioning”. What the hell does that mean? We need to accomplish a few things first before we’re in a rebuild? Or it hasn’t started yet, we’re getting ready, and it’ll start at some point in the future?
Only took getting rolled 5-0 by the leafs lmao
He said this weeks ago