His tenure in Vancouver was definitely rough, especially the Lack/Luongo heritage classic moment
Not sure if even really wanted to be there, I heard he slept at the arena or something lol
He admitted in an interview couple years ago that his Vancouver experience was not great. Basically, he wanted to get back into coaching but he didn't experience the whole west coast travel experience unlike the east. Also, his mold didn't fit the players at the time as that core was getting stale and he called them out in the media. I'm sure that didn't go well with management and ownership.
Also, basically Torts was just here collecting checks as his 'coaching' or lack there off was just barking orders to his players and assistants. Torts actually lived in Point Roberts, Washington which is small community south of Delta, BC. Apparently he never came to much of the practices in the morning because 'it was too far from downtown Vancouver' whatever the heck. The Torts hire was purely on our craptacular owner, Francesco Aquilini whom Canucks fans on here or anywhere aren't fond of.
Anyways, Mike Gillis got canned and Torts was out the door after that horrendous year. We hired Trevor Linden as team president and then we infamously hired Jim 'learning on the fly as GM' Benning.
....and you can guess how that turned out. I'm sure Jim Benning won't dare to step foot in Vancouver again after his 'reign of error'.