canucks are next level at this shit.
they don't just unnecessarily extend a star player a year early when he is notoriously a bozo extremely likely to slack off the second he gets such a deal.
they don't just extend the bozo when their captain is also a pending ufa and they don't have enough cap to sign both thus signalling a choice being made to said captain and ensuring that said captain is also a lame duck in the room as far as said bozo is concerned.
they don't just make sure the captain gets the message by belatedly opening extension negotiations with him in the $5m range.
they don't just hang their coach out to dry as a lame duck who they didn't really want to sign last summer, they do it only a week into the season because the team has a "mysteriously" bad training camp and a rocky start.
they don't just continue to throw shade at their own coach as if it his fault he suddenly cannot control a dressing room he had eating out of his hand a season earlier. they do it when the team blatantly completely stops playing defence while a bottom pair dman starts dressing down the bozo on the ice on live tv for lazy play and the captain focuses on his stats for ufa negotiations. must be the coach's fault.
they don't just let their meddling owner get involved in flying out to interview a mid season replacement coach even though they have made a point of claiming to the fanbase they have a poho and a gm running the show with hockey ops autonomy from ownership.
they don't just hire a retread old boy's club project with major fleas on him mid-season because nobody else is available. they do it two years in a row.
and they ice it all by letting the whole completely predictable but now suddenly done in a panic firing thing play out publicly on a "two more weeks" timeline to ensure boudreau has to keep coaching in the shittiest most embarassing circumstances imaginable
not to mention i will also bet they don't have tochhett under contract yet so he will now bend them over on all the details, which will mean he will be horrendously expensive to dump and he will stay employed long after he should be gone.
and i will also bet they are only suddenly panic firing boudreau when they showed every sign of blowing off the season because highes or pettersson or both have now made trade requests. so stay tuned.
what a miserable pathetic ride.