{"id":530073,"date":"2026-03-29T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:46:20","slug":"adam-footes-future-in-vancouver-looks-different-with-bruce-cassidy-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530073\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Foote\u2019s future in Vancouver looks different with Bruce Cassidy available"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Photo credit: Bob Frid-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Bruce Cassidy just hit the market, and Adam Foote suddenly has no shelter in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Cassidy’s availability matters because Vancouver isn’t debating a bump in the road anymore.<\/p>\n

The Canucks are 21-43-8 through 72 games, and their 50 points rank last in the league.<\/p>\n

The record is ugly enough.<\/p>\n

The goal numbers are worse: 185 scored, 273 allowed. That gap says Vancouver wasn’t just losing, it was getting tilted night after night.<\/p>\n

Foote was hired on 2025-05-14, and Patrik Allvin still has him as head coach right now.<\/p>\n

That matters because this wasn’t an inherited mess from another staff.<\/p>\n

This is why Cassidy lands as more than a rumor-board name.<\/p>\n

He is a proven NHL bench boss, and that changes the temperature the minute he becomes available.<\/p>\n

He isn’t some rebuilding coach who needs a soft landing.<\/p>\n

Cassidy walks in with standards, structure, and a track record of getting veteran rooms to play with shape.<\/p>\n

Chris Johnston had the right read on it Sunday: teams thinking about an offseason coaching move should move fast.<\/p>\n

Vancouver is one of the few spots where that warning actually fits.<\/p>\n

Vancouver can’t brush this off<\/p>\n

The Canucks do not need another vague evaluation period.<\/p>\n

A 72-game sample with 50 points has already answered the biggest question about this season, and it is not a flattering answer.<\/p>\n

If Allvin believes Foote deserves year 2, he has to own that call early and loudly.<\/p>\n

Letting Cassidy sit there on the board would turn every bad week next fall into another coaching debate.<\/p>\n

And if Allvin has doubts, this is the cleanest pivot he will get.<\/p>\n

Cassidy offers instant credibility, and Vancouver badly needs that after a season with a -88 goal differential.<\/p>\n

That is what makes this more than fan noise.<\/p>\n

Foote was never a unanimous choice in this market, and a last-place club with 273 goals against gives critics plenty of fuel.<\/p>\n

No one is saying a decision has to come tonight.<\/p>\n

But once Bruce Cassidy is available, Adam Foote stops being judged only against his own first year and starts being judged against a clear upgrade.<\/p>\n

In Vancouver, that comparison is live now. And if the Canucks front office is serious about fixing this fast, it can’t pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n

Previously on Vancouver Hockey Daily<\/p>\n

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Adam Foote\u2019s future in Vancouver looks different with Bruce Cassidy available<\/p>\n

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