Confirmed with Link: Adam Foote Named Head Coach of the Vancouver Canucks

[arttk]

Why can’t Foote? Guy played for Colorado and just because he played defence means nothing. He should know how to break down defences and played for team Canada that was loaded with offence. In my eyes someone of his stature who was a top 3 defensive Dman would be able to break down a defence knowing what they focus on.

Well I don’t think I am say he literally cannot do it, I think it’s probably a safer bet if we find someone that can 100% do it.

 

[Rick Rocket]

Bye Yogi, please

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

It looks like it came down to Hughes in my opinion and the fact Tocchet was going to bring him on as an assistant in Philly. Or else, why not wait until the playoffs were over to see who shakes loose? Seems like they jumped the gun but appeased their Captain in the process. I’m ok with that as long as Quinn is happy but I think there were better options out there as far as coaches.

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

Well I don’t think I am say he literally cannot do it, I think it’s probably a safer bet if we find someone that can 100% do it.

What Stanley Cup winning coaches were available? Torterella was a no from the get go but who else out there has won a Cup? I think for the most part they all failed and why they are available. Sullivan was the guy and he went early, who else?

 

[Jack Burton]

Good hire now we can't ignore their roster additions cause the coaching hire ain't sexy. Get to work Allvin.

This

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

Girard Gillant was my choice but obviously that ship has sailed. I thought he was the guy for this team if available

 

[Attack Vector]

That interview shows you that Foote can be one hell of a coach. I’m more interested in his assistant coaches, it seems like he will be pulling guys from internally.

 

[arttk]

What Stanley Cup winning coaches were available? Torterella was a no from the get go but who else out there has won a Cup? I think for the most part they all failed and why they are available. Sullivan was the guy and he went early, who else?

How did we go from we need an assistant /associate coach that can coach offense to that person needing to have Stanley cup winning pedigree?

 

[bobbyb2009]

Bye Yogi, please

Serious question: Why? Looking for your opinion and not being cheeky. Thanks

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

How did we go from we need an assistant /associate coach that can coach offense to that person needing to have Stanley cup winning pedigree?

Didn’t we just try Bruce Boudreau? This team if you can see is built from the backend and Goaltending. We loaded up on offence last year and it was a terrible outcome. No Canuck fan could say last year we didn’t have the deepest offensive team since 2011 going into the year. There’s no argument, offence will need to come but we need the pieces at this point and we don’t have them. Petey/Debrusk and Garland/Joshua/Blugar/Shearwood are our top offensive options with Lekkerimaki as a wild card.

 

[arttk]

Didn’t we just try Bruce Boudreau? This team if you can see is built from the backend and Goaltending. We loaded up on offence last year and it was a terrible outcome. No Canuck fan could say last year we didn’t have the deepest offensive team since 2011 going into the year. There’s no argument, offence will need to come but we need the pieces at this point and we don’t have them. Petey/Debrusk and Garland/Joshua/Blugar/Shearwood are our top offensive options with Lekkerimaki as a wild card.

I am talking about having an assistant/associate that can focus on offense and PP…

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Manny will be ready to take over when Foote fails....no more than 2 years away.....and the Sedin's will also be ready by then. That could easily be the time Rutherford also moves along. Nice to have Manny in the system doing a good job and patiently waiting his turn...which will come.

Manny is rumoured to be on shortlists for other HC positions this summer.

 

[lawrence]

We can ignore the outside noise about choosing Adam Foote. Quite frankly, I don’t think any coach will move the needle for our team right now—it’s just too weak. We could hire the best coach in the world, and it wouldn’t really matter if Demko keeps getting hurt and we lack firepower up front.Right now, it’s in these idiots’ nature to hate whatever the Canucks do. HFBoards has been like this for years. If we’d hired Manny Malhotra, they’d probably say, ‘What has this career fourth-line plug proven?’ or just find some other negative angle to attack the Foote decision. Was Foote my personal choice? Not really—I would’ve preferred Gallant or Malhotra, but that didn’t happen.Also, what’s up with them making fun of his son for going to court? That’s just low.

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

I am talking about having an assistant/associate that can focus on offense and PP…

What PP options do we have though? I understand a guy that can run offence but all those guys need to focus on locking it down if we want to win. Our PP at this point is shots from the point and traffic if we want to win. We don’t have an offence to deploy for an offensive coach. Right now it’s Petey/Garland/Lekkerimaki along with Hughes and Hronek as our top unit.

 

[arttk]

What PP options do we have though? I understand a guy that can run offence but all those guys need to focus on locking it down if we want to win. Our PP at this point is shots from the point and traffic if we want to win. We don’t have an offence to deploy for an offensive coach. Right now it’s Petey/Garland/Lekkerimaki along with Hughes and Hronek as our top unit.

What are you arguing for? Just let the players wing it and figure out how to play offense themselves?

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

We can ignore the outside noise about choosing Adam Foote. Quite frankly, I don’t think any coach will move the needle for our team right now—it’s just too weak. We could hire the best coach in the world, and it wouldn’t really matter if Demko keeps getting hurt and we lack firepower up front.Right now, it’s in these idiots’ nature to hate whatever the Canucks do. HFBoards has been like this for years. If we’d hired Manny Malhotra, they’d probably say, ‘What has this career fourth-line plug proven?’ or just find some other negative angle to attack the Foote decision. Was Foote my personal choice? Not really—I would’ve preferred Gallant or Malhotra, but that didn’t happen.Also, what’s up with them making fun of his son for going to court? That’s just low.

I personally agree with Gallant as he took a bunch of toys from misfit island all the way to the cup on great goaltending. Much the same with us but as negative as I sound we have to trust the process and hopefully we can add players to our coaching style. Foote isn’t the worst off a team now built from the back end out and we won’t be a high octane offence judging by cap space and roster.

We will probably be 30th on the PP and top 5 PK in the league next year and goaltending will play a huge part. I’m complex towards people advocating towards offence when we don’t have the players to play that way.

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

What are you arguing for? Just let the players wing it and figure out how to play offense themselves?

It’s a discussion board. Who is there to play offence for the team? If we win it’s 2-1 all day long and the Sedins are perfectly fine navigating that PP or offence if available. I don’t see a scenario no matter who coaches that we aren’t a bottom 5 scoring team in the league due to personnel.

 

[LordBacon]

Manny will be ready to take over when Foote fails....no more than 2 years away.....and the Sedin's will also be ready by then. That could easily be the time Rutherford also moves along. Nice to have Manny in the system doing a good job and patiently waiting his turn...which will come.

He's as good as gone brother.
Other teams are looking to signing him soon already (albeit those are rumours)

 

[David71]

Hire offensive assistant coaches

whose avaliable?

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

He's as good as gone brother.
Other teams are looking to signing him soon already (albeit those are rumours)

He’s under contract for one more year and also a team option the second year. He’s not gone and also setup to take over in a year or 2 from Foote if he fails miserably. Not sure of numbers but I’m sure a year of Foote on the Books and Malhotra would still be cheaper than a year of Tocchet. I think a 3 year term plays into the Hughes contract and Allvin

 

[LordBacon]

whose avaliable?

Bruce Willis and Sivestre Stallone

 

[David71]

Bruce Willis and Sivestre Stallone

woodcroft+someone else.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

He’s under contract for one more year and also a team option the second year. He’s not gone and also setup to take over in a year or 2 from Foote if he fails miserably. Not sure of numbers but I’m sure a year of Foote on the Books and Malhotra would still be cheaper than a year of Tocchet. I think a 3 year term plays into the Hughes contract and Allvin

Teams blocking AHL coaches from getting NHL coaching jobs elsewhere is really not a thing.

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

woodcroft+someone else.

I guess Woodcroft is a great offensive coach because he had McDavid and Draisitle the two best offensive players in the world on his team. The logic is ridiculous and means nothing, he coached to his strengths and if he did that in Vancouver we would be a lottery team 100%. Vancouver has a top 10 defence and with potential a top 3/5 defence in the league. In your logic Foote is the best option available and management made the right choice.

Where is the collation here?

 

[mriswith]

Gross. That's what I get for making an optimistic post a week ago, lmao.

He has a resume for AHL head coach, not anywhere near NHL head coach. And I'm pretty sure Foote is the one who wanted to run the "talentless trees" strategy that basically ruined the season this year.

I don't think Tocchet was bad but I don't mind him moving on, outside of half a year of an insane PDO bender and two playoff rounds of last minute heroics saving the day, the team wasn't great. But replacing him with Foote feels really bad.

As for GM Quinn Hughes, I remember in the 21-22 season when everyone posted 1000x on repeat how we couldn't build this team properly or exercise patience because oh no EP wouldn't sign if we sold anyone that mattered or didn't compete immediately!!!

So we didn't operate with any patience or foresight, we sucked anyways, we sold or tried to sell every core player anyways, and in the end EP signed anyways.

And not only did 99% of the people spamming "can't use patience or EP will leave!!!" immediately turn on EP and want to trade him for a bag of pucks when he slumped.... but we'd be a million times better off now if we had used a tiny modicum of patience and built properly.

Like I said back then, you don't let players demands determine the teams strategy. For pro athletes, winning in a shit environment is better for player satisfaction and morale than losing in a "good" environment with people you like. You build to win not placate players feelings.

I don't actually think this was about Hughes, I think that is an excuse and am not a fan of how much attention that narrative is getting. I think we just picked the laziest, cheapest option for an unattractive job and are selling it with the Hughes angle. But if it was about Hughes, that's a terrible idea.

Maybe the guy with no resume and who is likely to continue with the system that wasn't working will pull miracles out of his ass, that would be great. Not going to hold my breath on it.