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Breakers said:
As much as it would totally suck

Pettersson saying I’m not re-signing would crater Aquilini.

It would be such a beautiful sight.
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f*** that. Hating your team's owner more than you like yourself is just pointless self-flagellation.

I think we have to find a way to enjoy the team knowing he's an owner (for me it's the fact that I loved the Canucks long before he came along, so I can protect that affection from my deep hatred for him), or stop cheering for the team.

What you're proposing is like taking your ex-wife back and then hoping she gets a debilitating illness.
 
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The team will never change as long as FA is in charge. He’s going on 20 years of 100% ownership and everything he’s touched turned to crap. Luigi was smart moving him off the farm business he almost collapsed and made sure his name wasn’t on any substantial assets. The only hope for the Canucks is if rumors of family infighting are true. Hopefully they band together and oust the knucklehead. They’ve benefited from the NHL’s wider success and can make a dandy profit selling the team. FA is a walking $hit stain and leaving a revolting stench on the family legacy, the fans and the city. He’s gotta go!
 
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I feel bad for some of the players, Petey and Hughes, Bo and others, but as a fan of the Canucks for as long as I can remember beginning in the 1st or 2nd season in the NHL, I want the worst for the franchise under Aquilini.

I will never offer my resignation; I've been saying for years now I want a cup before my time is up, but the sooner we hit bottom, the sooner we can recover. It's clear. The problem with this organization starts at the the top. My hope is that total Canuck turmoil, combined with a wildly successful Kraken organization, impacts armchair support for the Vancouver franchise and pushes Aquilini out, hopefully in the next 12 to 18 months.
 
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MarkusNaslund19 said:
f*** that. Hating your team's owner more than you like yourself is just pointless self-flagellation.

I think we have to find a way to enjoy the team knowing he's an owner (for me it's the fact that I loved the Canucks long before he came along, so I can protect that affection from my deep hatred for him), or stop cheering for the team.

What you're proposing is like taking your ex-wife back and then gets a debilitating illness.
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Yeah, when I see stuff like this or the poster saying they’re glad Boston beat us in 2011 because of FA being owner… are you guys serious? Or just overly emotional?

I will always take seeing a Cup win in my life over not seeing one. I like myself more than I hate FA.

Imagine how much easier it’d be to cut the fandom card right now if we had all seen a win in 2011….
 
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EpochLink said:
f*** Aquaman
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Yeah but when exactly in that they didn’t want him back at all and thus the Canucks pay him his $500k buyout or whatever it was this offseason or at game 20?

Big difference between those 2.

If they willingly brought him back then yes, FA should be ticked that he’s blowing $1.5 mill extra in coaching costs.

But if FA wanted BB back then this is on him.

Franks tweet doesn’t indicate whether JR wanted a different HC going into the season or not.

Lol the media coming after FA now only a decade of him being so involved and meddling. Nothing from 2021 or earlier. Always defending Jimbo.
 
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StreetHawk said:
Yeah but when exactly in that they didn’t want him back at all and thus the Canucks pay him his $500k buyout or whatever it was this offseason or at game 20?

Big difference between those 2.

If they willingly brought him back then yes, FA should be ticked that he’s blowing $1.5 mill extra in coaching costs.

But if FA wanted BB back then this is on him.

Franks tweet doesn’t indicate whether JR wanted a different HC going into the season or not.

Lol the media coming after FA now only a decade of him being so involved and meddling. Nothing from 2021 or earlier. Always defending Jimbo.
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Aquaman should be feeling the heat now, all the disastrous crap that has happened for now a decade is now coming home to roost. This f***ing prick can’t help himself, f*** him.
 
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EpochLink said:
Aquaman should be feeling the heat now, all the disastrous crap that has happened for now a decade is now coming home to roost. This f***ing prick can’t help himself, f*** him.
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Finally the media is going after FA.

But still, the media isn’t saying that JR didn’t want to have BB as the HC this season. What does months ago mean? After game 10 or in June when the deadline for his option was due?

Months plural is anything greater than 1.

Camp was in sept. Season began on Oct. it’s now late Jan so it’s been 5 months.
 
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Nucker101 said:
you love to see this. I don't think FA gives much of a shit about what fans say on twitter/reddit/hf. But getting roasted by more national media definitely has to piss him off.
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We had a track record of hiring non-OBC guys. Coaching staff has been comprised of non-OBC hires. Gillis was an outsider. Benning was technically part of the OBC but was stupid and happy being FAQ's patsy for years.

Enter Jim Rutherford who is a founding father for this generations OBC. He is a cunning manipulative opportunist, who has likely been butting heads with FAQ. Not absolving him of his errors but I truly believe management wants ownership to f*** off from the day-to-day operations. This may explain why coachgate played out the way it did and why we are now hearing all the leaks coming out.

FAQ sort of f***ed himself by hiring Bruce and it may seem like someone in management is trying to push back.
 
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Nucker101 said:
you love to see this. I don't think FA gives much of a shit about what fans say on twitter/reddit/hf. But getting roasted by more national media definitely has to piss him off.
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FA won’t care too much about podcasters but it’s the national media that actually pays money to the nhl like ESPN, TNT, TSN, Rogers. When those guys really turn, that’s when it’s on.
 
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StreetHawk said:
Finally the media is going after FA.

But still, the media isn’t saying that JR didn’t want to have BB as the HC this season. What does months ago mean? After game 10 or in June when the deadline for his option was due?

Months plural is anything greater than 1.

Camp was in sept. Season began on Oct. it’s now late Jan so it’s been 5 months.
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Just guessing by how it went down in the summer, but I don't think the team wanted to retain him, but with the Bonus buyout due were not allowed to use it. Forced to bring him back unless Bruce didn't want to come back. They clearly didn't want to exercise the opt out clause, but didn't want him back.
 
racerjoe said:
Just guessing by how it went down in the summer, but I don't think the team wanted to retain him, but with the Bonus buyout due were not allowed to use it. Forced to bring him back unless Bruce didn't want to come back. They clearly didn't want to exercise the opt out clause, but didn't want him back.
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Yes.

It appears that Rutherford/Allvin initially assumed they'd be able to select their coach this summer, and then at some point were told they wouldn't be able to and that ownership wasn't going to allow them to fire Boudreau or pay him out.

At that point, their only option to get their preferred coach in play was to force out Boudreau. This is why we saw the public criticism etc. I'm guessing they made it very obvious he had no future here, but when he measured interest around the league found there wasn't any and made the pragmatic $2 million decision to take his chances on coming back for another year.
 
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MS said:
Yes.

It appears that Rutherford/Allvin initially assumed they'd be able to select their coach this summer, and then at some point were told they wouldn't be able to and that ownership wasn't going to allow them to fire Boudreau or pay him out.

At that point, their only option to get their preferred coach in play was to force out Boudreau. This is why we saw the public criticism etc. I'm guessing they made it very obvious he had no future here, but when he measured interest around the league found there wasn't any and made the pragmatic $2 million decision to take his chances on coming back for another year.
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Publicly forcing Boudreau out with these verbal jabs, does that not paint an incredibly shitty picture for ourselves?
 
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Publicly forcing Boudreau out with these verbal jabs, does that not paint an incredibly shitty picture for ourselves?
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I mean as much as I blame J-vin, and I do, there's probably this point in being a manager for the Canucks when you realize this whole "autonomy" thing you were told you have was snake oil. I think that threshold was crossed a while back when this circus started.
 
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Reverend Mayhem said:
I mean as much as I blame J-vin, and I do, there's probably this point in being a manager for the Canucks when you realize this whole "autonomy" thing you were told you have was snake oil. I think that threshold was crossed a while back when this circus started.
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And now we basically solidified out reputation of being the raw vegan pizza equivalent of an NHL organization.

Lovely, that's just perfect...
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It's not vegan, it's Beyond Pizza. Which coincidentally is what the team dishes out multiple times every game.
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Goddamn it do you HAVE to make it more depressing than it already is.
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MS said:
Yes.

It appears that Rutherford/Allvin initially assumed they'd be able to select their coach this summer, and then at some point were told they wouldn't be able to and that ownership wasn't going to allow them to fire Boudreau or pay him out.

At that point, their only option to get their preferred coach in play was to force out Boudreau. This is why we saw the public criticism etc. I'm guessing they made it very obvious he had no future here, but when he measured interest around the league found there wasn't any and made the pragmatic $2 million decision to take his chances on coming back for another year.
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Just shows how little to no business sense FA has. If he wasn’t born into money he wouldn’t be living the life he does now.

Paying $7.5 mill for his trio of HC this season (prorate tocchet). But still. He could have walked away from Green for no cost. But cause he gave Jimbo 3 more years in 2019 taking him to 2023, he didn’t want to hand out a 4 year deal to a new HC. He brings back Green. Then brings in BB. If your GM doesn’t truly want him why not just pay the buyout of $500k or whatever the amount was and move on from BB? Cause he got mesmerized by the winning streak and thought the at was the real Canucks like the Covid playoffs…

Fires BB half way into the year and then adds RT.

And this is the same guy who wouldn’t pay money for Sutter’s buyout in 2020…. But he’s fine to buyout Holtby and Jake in 2021 and pay that much for HC?…. My word…. What an idiot…
 
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