Rick Tocchet will not be returning as the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks.
The Canucks will be looking for their 4th coach in the last four years.
Statement from the team: https://www.nhl.com/canucks/news/vancouver-canucks-announce-rick-tocchet-will-not-return-as-head-coach
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24 Comments
What are your thoughts on this news?
Is that a prank
Let the bum go. We can do better.
Watching his interviews close to the end of the season and especially the end of season locker clean out interview, you can tell he was already half way out the door if you read between the lines. Not surprising, but good god I hate being a Canucks fan 😩
Thanks tocc for some good times. All the best
Vancouver Canucks is not for the faint of heart. Have to have bigger head than him to want to be here.
Canucks should bring in Mike Sullivan!
Disappointing for sure but yeah, the way management has been handling things is very concerning as a fan
Thank god!!! 😪
Honestly, he's too good for where the Canucks are currently at. Move Hughes and EP40 for players in their early 20s and combine them with the young guns that are showing flashes of being really good players. Retool over the next three years and the Canucks will be electric with a good young core going forward. Trying to retain Hughes is really going to weigh down this team. This team is just not good enough to compete with a Norris dman atm.
Shocked and gutted by this.
Can't blame him this team is always a dumpster fire, if things start going well for this team there's always drama right around the corner. I've been a fan for 43 yrs seen this to many times.
Thanks for the information Clay 👍
That was a quick marriage and divorce
this team is cursed since losing the lottery when they entered the league.. travel is a bit turn off… easier to play in east coast
That’s it Hughes will likely be next. Blame narcissist miller for being a major start of the demise. Should be booed when he plays in Van next time. And then there is pedey who is just too childish to play a real man’s game. Sad to be a Canuck fan for past 40 yrs. No point to remain one.
I sense another 10 year slump coming! Hughes refuses to sign; Petey quits to go play video games in Sweden; Demko’s knees, hips, back, and head all catch up to him; Lankennen joins the goalie graveyard; w3 trade away draft picks. I’ve seen this before, many times.
get a coach that allow forwards to play mostly forward
The Canucks were a broken team even with Tocchet as head coach, and remain so with his departure.
Whoever they get…it won't make a difference
Yes he leaves
a few reasons why the canucks suck….
*one of only two teams in the nhl without a practice facility, the other being calgary and they'll resolve this by 2028 with their new stadium.
*coaches in this city are like a carousel ride, either they get fired or don't want to resign here.
*aquallini needs to go, i hope fans that go to games bring signs and chant their displeasure with him, or better yet don't goto games at all so he gets the message.
*quinn is as good as gone, there's no way he wants to be here, he wanted toch back…
Quinn on Tocchet: "Hes an amazing coach. Hes been amazing for me and a lot of guys. Thats a guy you want to compete, play for. Last year he won the JackAdams and this year I think hes been even better. Whatever he does its his decision. Obviously Id like to have him back. And I think he knows that."
Dollar exchange rate. Higher taxes. Difference in government involvement with premises. One salary cap for all. Add it all up and Canadian teams will never compete evenly. Whether this is fair or not can be debated. As can what to do about it. But playing or coaching a Canadian team in uneven environment is a loser long term. Fish bowl fans and media coverage is a plus and a minus. More minus probably. What to do? Figure out and agree on the problems first. Blaming a single coach or player doesn’t fix things…
While Tocchet was the least of the Canucks' many problems, I feel that this market has overblown his coaching abilities. In all the seasons he has served as the head coach of a team, he actually only had two seasons where his team won more games than they have lost in regulation and overtime combined. He had a .500 record in the playoffs, and, as we have seen the last 1.5 seasons, had difficulties getting his team to produce offensively (be that generating shots, scoring chances, and actually scoring goals). With that said, his departure indicates a bigger dysfunction of this whole team, which of course is the bigger problem. Sadly, I see the Canucks sharing the fate of their expansion cousin and will be stuck in mediocrity for a long, long time. Where as Buffalo still gets some high picks to give its fans a glimmer of hope for the future, I fear the Canucks will continue to be drafting in the middle of a round with ownership pushing to mortgage the future for a couple of playoff dates, so the team may actually be worse off than the Sabers.