DFO Rundown Insider Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI would assume Jim Rutherford has some sort of succession plan in place or wants to have one in place for when he eventually does retire,\u201d Gaffar said. \u201cBut again, like I mentioned about the Toronto Maple Leafs \u2013 if the Canucks get the first-overall pick on May 5th at the Draft Lottery, it\u2019s probably one of the most important days in franchise history, if not the most important day in franchise history, if they win that lottery, will be the draft. But who will be at the helm of the General Manager if it is Patrick Allvin or someone else, you have to set yourself up for the next 10 to 15 years again. Whether it\u2019s making moves, trading, drafting and all of that, and I think that there needs to be and probably will be a lot of change this off-season here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Added Pagnotta: \u201cThere have been some conversations, or whispers I should say, in the last few weeks that Vancouver has seriously been considering a change at the GM post. That goes kind of in line with whatever transitional period Jim Rutherford is going to put into place to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is unclear whom the Canucks may consider as a replacement for Allvin if they decided to make a change, though Rutherford remains at the top of the totem pole.<\/p>\n
Despite speculation suggesting a coaching change may be in the offing, as well, Gaffar noted the Canucks are not expected to replace Adam Foote as bench boss this off-season, barring extenuating circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere needs to be some major changes, not only in the front office when you see the major changes on the ice as well, and the young core that you have needs to grow together, you (also) need to insulate them with veterans, whether that\u2019s on the blueline or up front,\u201d Gaffar said. \u201cYou need to have the right people in place. And I think that\u2019s probably the biggest thing heading into this off-season is can you get the right people in place for this organization to grow and flourish? And we\u2019ll see what happens. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think the head coach stays. I\u2019m not entirely sure that they\u2019re very keen on making a head coaching change or saying goodbye to all the assistant coaches. I believe they\u2019re all under three-year deals. It just doesn\u2019t make sense to me to get rid of them all and then you pay new set of coaches while you\u2019re still paying the old set of coaches for another two seasons. Economically, that just doesn\u2019t make sense. I\u2019m not entirely sure that\u2019s the right way of doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks will finish last in the NHL this season, even if they win all seven of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-539478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vancouver","12":"tag-vancouver-canucks","13":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116343743649156086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}