Vancouver Canucks fire Travis Green, name Bruce Boudreau head coach

[A1LeafNation]

Let's see if this sparks Pettersson.

 

[Oleksiak]

Well this is his first foray in the NHL, so lesson learned.

Some other club will give him a shot.

I feel sorry for the fans of whichever team takes him. He got a chance in the NHL and he clearly proven that he wasn't only incompetent, he wasn't enough of a man to hold himself accountability. Guys like that don't tend to learn from their mistakes, and coaches who get hired tend to do at least something well.

 

[EpochLink]

I feel sorry for the fans of whichever team takes him. He got a chance in the NHL and he clearly proven that he wasn't only incompetent, he wasn't enough of a man to hold himself accountability. Guys like that don't tend to learn from their mistakes, and coaches who get hired tend to do at least something well.

It worked for Alain Vigneault, so it could work for Travis Green.

not our problem anymore.

 

[Wayward Son]

How I feel after these last two announcements

 

[jackjohnson]

Let's see if this sparks Pettersson.

I think it will spark him and Boeser and motivate Horvat too. Look at how Gaudreau is playing under sutter.

 

[TaLoN]

Let's see if this sparks Pettersson.

I'd be shocked if he didn't. Bruce knows how to bring out offense.

 

[EpochLink]

I'd be shocked if he didn't. Bruce knows how to bring out offense.

Not just Pettersson, Boeser/Horvat need a good kick in the rear as well.

 

[Devonator]

Man I hope my Flyers are next in terms of firing their coach.

 

[TaLoN]

Man I hope my Flyers are next in terms of firing their coach.

Do you really want to hear the phrase "interim head coach Mike Yeo"??? He wants his players to be Yeobots.

That said, I understand if you think anything is better than the status quo

 

[EpochLink]

Man I hope my Flyers are next in terms of firing their coach.

Issue with Alain Vigneault and his system, for his system to work he needs a HOF caliber goaltender to be the backbone.

He had Luongo and Lundqvist during his most successful runs, if he doesn’t have those types in net you get the results you are seeing in Philadelphia and his early years in Montreal.

 

[Cancuks]

 

[Throwback]

If I were a Canucks fan, I would still be very concerned until a competent President is hired, and moves are made at the TDL.

I have nothing but the greatest respect for the Sedins, but unless an outside, competent, experienced President is hired, they are being set up to fail like Linden failed. They need to learn under someone competent, for years - not under someone incompetent, for months.

As it stands right now, it sure smells like Gear/Johnson/Smyl/Sedins are going to assume the duties that would be carried out by an GM/AGM, but that Aquaman is still the de facto President. Would anyone be surprised if Canucks fans are getting insipid* Aqua tweets a year and a half from now?

I would not be surprised to see this unsuitable collection of experience and talents continue on for a while, no actual President is found, and the Sedins continue the Benning role of acting as a shield for Aquaman so he can ruin his toy without facing real media scrutiny.

Well, Weisbrod is gone. There's that. But other than having a better coach, the team appears to just be stepping sideways, and with inadequate management, even the best coach will do nothing but keep the team in mediocrity purgatory.

Miller will soon be aging out, OEL is aging out, Myers is aging out, Horvat will be aging out in a few years. Ownership appears reluctant to move on them. Media are the Stanley Cup Champs of bootlicking, which means there will be no accountability, and the owners continued failures will . . . continue. iMac has probably already begun with the bs shilling, claiming these are "hugely substantive changes" when in fact the only real change is in the coaching staff, which at this point improving it will only lead to a poorer draft pick. The team is not making the playoffs. There has been no substantive change - Aqua appears to still be the de facto President, calling the shots such that any GM is a yes-man, and former Canuck players are used as a shield to insulate the owner from media scrutiny for his atrocious President/GM activities.

Celebrate today's half-decade-too-late . . . pyrrhic victory? no, that's not the word. Tactical. Celebrate today's tactical victory but the war ain't hardly begun and you still face strategic defeat. And remember, I will always be around to rain on your . . . riot.

'cause I'm . . . I'm . . . you know . . . me.

*what does that even mean? I dunno, but it just seemed like the thing to write

Pretty on the nose there. Francesco Aqulini steering he ship will keep the franchise in mediocrity at best and in the cellar at worst unless he actually gives the reins to an experienced POHO and and an experienced GM, which doesn't seem likely given the order of what just happened (he hired Boudreau, not the replacement GM/POHO who would hire their own guy). More Yes Men (Benning) or loyalty to former Canucks players in management positions (Linden, and even now Smyl/Johnson/Sedins the interim) not going to change things for better.

Still a Canucks fan against my better judgement.

 

[howkie]

NOOOOOOOO!!! I wanted BB to replace Maurice.......

 

[Night Shift]

 

[I am toxic]

Pretty on the nose there. Francesco Aqulini steering he ship will keep the franchise in mediocrity at best and in the cellar at worst unless he actually gives the reins to an experienced POHO and and an experienced GM, which doesn't seem likely given the order of what just happened (he hired Boudreau, not the replacement GM/POHO who would hire their own guy). More Yes Men (Benning) or loyalty to former Canucks players in management positions (Linden, and even now Smyl/Johnson/Sedins the interim) not going to change things for better.

Still a Canucks fan against my better judgement.

Close, but not loyalty from owner to former players, but loyalty from former players to the owner.

Linden had finally found that one saving grace - the humility to acknowledge he was wrong, and ask others of greater experience how to proceed. He's a bright, talented guy, he would have eventually gotten there. Especially if he would have read all of my posts, back then.

But humility, learning, that is not the way the Aqua/Benning/Weisbrod craptastrophe works. Linden was immediately fired. Like, within days.

Linden should have abandoned his harmful loyalty to the owner, and kept his loyalty to the franchise. Come clean, made it clear that the Canucks needed a rebuild, not the endless cycle of trashing future assets for present crap in a pathetically "managed" attempt to scratch into the playoffs, a strategy that was doomed to failure - if success is considered contending for the Cup.

Smyl, the Sedins, they need to step up and tell it like it is. For the sake of the crest on the jersey. Despite their close relationship with Aquaman.

The team needs to spend a couple seasons unloading aging vets like Myers, gettng value for Miller and Motte, and inventing a time machine to undo the OEL acquisition, a poison pill courtesy of Jim Benning and John Weisbrod that will ensure the Canucks will not be a true Stanley Cup contender for another half decade at least.

As Frank Serengeti tweeted, Canucks fans owe Jim Benning an apology. For underestimating his ability to screw the franchise for more than a decade.

Still, when you've dug yourself into a hole, the first thing - the very first thing - is put down the shovel. At least the franchise did that today, getting rid of an incompetent coach, the worst GM in franchise history, and Weisbrod, whom we aren't certain what he is or what he does or exactly which alien planet he hails from, but we are certain that he is synonymous with backstabbing, manipulation, and failure.

Whether the team picks the shovel up and begins digging deeper, remains to be seen.

 

[UED]

Congrats!

 

[Nucker101]

I honestly feel bad for the next team Green coaches, assuming he gets another shot. Especially the dmen and the goalies.

 

[Nick Hansen]

Good hire by the Canucks, his players seems to like him and he always gets his offensive players going.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

BB brought an average at best Wild team to almost winning the division
If you look at his coaching history, he’s almost a guarantee playoff coach

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

I honestly feel bad for the next team Green coaches, assuming he gets another shot. Especially the dmen and the goalies.

The east medias still think he’s a good coach
I feel bad whoever hires him

 

[elitepete]

Let's see if this sparks Pettersson.

I'd be shocked if he didn't. Bruce knows how to bring out offense.

We are praying.

 

[kthx]

Congratulations Canucks fans!

 

[KaseMeOutside]

Bruce is an excellent coach for a young team he did a great job in Anaheim and we all realized that as soon as Bob's drinking buddy came back. He will get the Canucks playing an aggressive style that fits their team

 

[Habs10Habs]

Too much talent on the Canucks to be playing like they are. Hopefully Boudreau can tap into some of that offense.

 

[Voight]

The quintessential “try and save your season” hire.

By that I mean Boudreau is usually pretty good at turning around teams mid season.