{"id":78580,"date":"2025-06-17T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/78580\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:40:30","slug":"ongoing-battle-causing-distress-behind-the-scenes-involving-the-aquilini-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/78580\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ongoing Battle&#8217; Causing Distress Behind the Scenes Involving the Aquilini Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#8216;Ongoing Battle&#8217; Causing Distress Behind the Scenes Involving the Aquilini Family<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/570721.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini.\" title=\"Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: TSN<\/p>\n<p>An NHL insider has revealed on Monday that an ongoing battle is taking place behind the scenes involving the Aquilini family, who own the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Canucks&#8217; ownership group has been quite stable for the last 20 years, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/frustrated-canucks-fan-publicly-confronts-team-owner-francesco-aquilini-outside-rogers-arena\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fans not being too happy<\/a> with decisions made by Francesco Aquilini in the last couple of years, including the auctioning off of Washington Capitals jerseys by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Alexander-Ovechkin-1516\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Alexander Ovechkin profile and hockey stats\">Alexander Ovechkin<\/a>.There were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/vancouver-canucks-make-major-official-statement-about-francesco-aquilini-allegedly-selling-the-team\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rumblings earlier in the spring<\/a> that the Aquilini family was considering selling a portion of the Vancouver Canucks, however that was shot down pretty quickly.It appeared that the ownership group would stay in place for the 2025-26 season, however just two days after rumors were shot down about the team potentially being up for sale, one of Francesco Aquilini&#8217;s brothers, Paolo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/nhl-team\/vancouver-canucks\/member-of-the-vancouver-canucks-ownership-group-has-left-the-team\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">resigned from his position<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Insider reveals &#8216;ongoing battle&#8217; behind the scenes involving Aquilini family<\/p>\n<p>During Monday&#8217;s edition of the DFO Rundown Podcast, NHL insider Frank Seravalli spoke about the Vancouver Canucks&#8217; ownership situation heading into the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Seravalli revealed that there&#8217;s an ongoing battle going with the Aquilini family behind the scenes, but it&#8217;s not in relation to control of the team, which he says will still be run by Francesco Aquilini.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to add that the Aquilini family still need to buyout Paolo Aquilini and that they&#8217;re hoping to get it done around the start of the 2025-26 NHL season in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an ongoing battle behind the scenes right now between the Aquilini family. It&#8217;s not over control of the team because Francesco is going to maintain that&#8230;They have to buyout Paolo. It has been ongoing. Probably wont get settled until the start of the season.&#8221; Seravalli said.<\/p>\n<p>Another NHL insider, Darren Dreger, was a guest on Canucks Talk on Monday where he shared some limited information about the ownership situation and said that he&#8217;s heard some interesting rumors locally about what&#8217;s going on, but isn&#8217;t comfortable reporting on it just yet.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait and see what happens over the summer months when it comes to the Vancouver Canucks&#8217; ownership group and whether or not the Aquilini family will buy out Paolo Aquilini or if they&#8217;ll find someone to take on a minority stake of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on CanucksDaily<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>55 MINUTES AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a047 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ongoing Battle&#8217; Causing Distress Behind the Scenes Involving the Aquilini Family<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the Aquilini family will sell a minority stake in the Vancouver Canucks this summer?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCANUCKSDAILY.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canucksdaily.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,1669,8876,15484,2197,5,4,893,27,15483,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-78580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-canucks-daily","10":"tag-francesco-aquilini","11":"tag-francesco-aquilini-canucks","12":"tag-frank-seravalli","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-vancouver","16":"tag-vancouver-canucks","17":"tag-vancouver-canucks-ownership","18":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114699700037968736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78580","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=78580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}