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Patrik Allvin is under real heat, and Adam Foote now looks tied to a Canucks front office story that keeps getting louder.
The latest push came after Nick Kypreos reported that Allvin does not expect to survive past this season.
Then Thomas Drance added more fuel by saying the prevailing assumption around the league lines up with that reporting.
That changes the tone in Vancouver.
This is no longer just outside noise or one insider taking a swing at a struggling team. It now feels like a front-office story with real traction.
And once that happens, every late-season move gets read differently.
The Canucks are 21-44-8, and that record leaves almost no cover for management.
Allvin is becoming the story in Vancouver
What makes this hit harder is the sense that Allvin has already told people around him he does not expect to be back next season.
If that read is right, then Vancouver may already be moving toward a major reset before the season is even over.
Kypreos also reported that change is coming in Vancouver, with the only real question being how deep ownership wants to go.
That matters because once a general manager looks vulnerable, the spotlight shifts fast to the rest of the structure.
The standings only add to it. Vancouver has a -90 goal differential, which tells you this has gone well beyond a bad stretch.
Fans can live with a rebuild if the direction is clear.
What they do not handle well is drift, and that is why this report landed so hard in this market.
Drance backing the industry assumption gave the story more weight, not less.
Now the pressure is on the Canucks to decide whether Allvin is taking the fall alone or whether this is the start of something much bigger in Vancouver.
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