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Rick Tocchet not returning to the Canucks

Quinton Byfield said:
Is that why the Canucks neither possess the puck, or get high danger chances?

You can keep the excuses going if you like, but if you watch the Canucks play, it’s nothing but regressive, chip and chase 2000s hockey and Quinn Hughes being f***ing amazing at hockey. So much offensive zone possession was just Quinn doing it himself.
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It’s not an excuse— I’m paraphrasing what he said. Not endorsing that they executed it well. Barking at the wrong tree, angry old man.
 
Quinn is angry folks....

"I hope he's playing golf because he usually returns my calls right away and I called him within half-an-hour of talking to Rick and he hasn't called me back," says Jim Rutherford when asked if he's talked to Quinn Hughes about Tocchet's departure.
 
Other than one PDO season, this front office is increasingly showing they are embarrassingly dysfunctional.

Allvin and JR were supposed to come in and bring back some respectability and stability to the franchise. Instead they've found themselves embroiled in almost constant off-ice drama.
 
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Gregor Samsa said:
Someone explain Vancouver’s last calendar year in bullet points. Has it ever come out what the whole EP/Miller thing was about? If it was that bad in the media and to the point one had to be traded, it must have been ugly behind closed
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- Petey and Miller had a long-time feud
- Evidently Miller did/said something that went over the line
- Perhaps around the same time, Tocc had some issue with Miller during video and resulted in Miller tossing an iPad at Tocc
- Management decided to send Miller home for a month (the "leave of absence")
- Management hoped Miller could cool it, but became apparent he could not remain on the team and they decided he had to be moved
- All the while, management is giving signals that they personally prefer Miller and were publicly slagging Petey, but still traded Miller because of his emotional outbursts
- Petey and Miller continue to deny the issue while pretty much everyone else with the team has acknowledged it
 
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The presser. Sullivan is out. He was a little cold on Laviolette but not ruling it out. The decision will be Patrick Alvins and not JR's. It will be someone who Alvin has history with and less so who JR had history with

 
LOFIN said:
Vancouver Canucks is one of two NHL teams that don't have a practice facility. Calgary Flames is the other one, and they are building one with the new arena.

And Friedman said in 32 thoughts that this was actually one of the sticking points for Tocchet.
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It's insane to me that a team thats been in operation for over half a century does not have a practice facility.
 
bossram said:
- Petey and Miller had a long-time feud
- Evidently Miller did/said something that went over the line
- Perhaps around the same time, Tocc had some issue with Miller during video and resulted in Miller tossing an iPad at Tocc
- Management decided to send Miller home for a month (the "leave of absence")
- Management hoped Miller could cool it, but became apparent he could not remain on the team and they decided he had to be moved
- All the while, management is giving signals that they personally prefer Miller and were publicly slagging Petey, but still traded Miller because of his emotional outbursts
- Petey and Miller continue to deny the issue while pretty much everyone else with the team has acknowledged it
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And yet Vancouver won a divisional title last year. Something the Oilers or Devils haven't had a prayer of doing despite all the yahoo hype they get
 
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S E P H said:
The problem isn't him being an amazing head coach, but that he rejected them and that they can do way worse than Tocchet.
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How did he reject them? Tocchet wanted to be the 3rd highest paid coach in the NHL. What’s he proven to deserve that?

Let’s not forget how everyone laughed when Vancouver hired Tocchet in the first place.
 
Brookbank said:
And yet Vancouver won a divisional title last year. Something the Oilers or Devils haven't had a prayer of doing despite all the yahoo hype they get
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Do Canuck fans really care about the divisional title now? Everyone from that core will be gone in a year except Petey.
 
Brookbank said:
Before you win cups, you should be able to win divisionals. Again, something the up and coming teams don't seem to have a prayer of doing. The Sedin era Canucks won 6 of them yet the Oilers are going on almost a decade with Mcdrai and they cant win one.
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I don't think it matters all that much. Less than half of the ten most recent Stanley Cup champions won their division. The Oilers in particular qualify for the playoffs every year and were a win away from the Stanley Cup last year. That's all that ultimately matters.
 
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Brookbank said:
Tell us you know nothing about Vancouver real estate without telling us
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LA & NY have them so that argument doesn't really hold water. Most practice arenas aren't close to downtown, they're in the suburbs near where most players live. The Kings are in El Segundo, the Rangers in Westchester County, etc. You can't tell me there are no possible building sites within 30-35 miles of downtown that a multi-billionaire could afford.

It's downright embarrassing to not have a practice facility in the year 2025. That's entirely on ownership.
 
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