“I do believe we have a very exciting team, and a team people are going to have fun watching and watch grow.”
Listen to President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford at Canucks year-end media.
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43 Comments
A point a gamw doesn't get paid 11.6 million a year.
The coach is just as fking responsible as the gm if the coaching staff cant get the team to buy into the system you aint getting a team to play. And 2 )many good teams struggled this year our goaltending sucks period. Fire the coach and bring in another guy get a gm and ffs get a fking goalie
Jim, when are you gone, is this foreshadowing — good? Ryan Johnson may be a nice guy with potential but he's not what the team needs, hiring Foote was money saving and likely represented no pushback to ownership. FA needs to step away and hire good people (someone else should pick them) and let the org make the right moves.
I don't know why he's keeping the coach what a degenerate fool
Cootes 6'/183# and Lekkerimaki 5'11"/173# – too small for the NHL. Look at Lekkerimaki, star in the AHL no impact in the NHL, move him on.
As long as Johnson gets the job, we know Manny will too. 🤞🤞
15:48 No he isn't. I believe it when I see it. I'm pretty sure we will be throwing away value and 2nd round picks to any team that wants one soon enough.
Jim Rutherford is 77 Time to retyre….
You guys ie “Canucks” better bring in malholtra !!
What a waste of space. The only Zoom call you should be making is your resignation. Worst President in team history. Dinosaur.
Players make more money (less taxes) in the US.
“The player was never there” okay ask dubas how he got mantha Brazeau wotherspoon shea CHINAKHOV.
Tickets should be free next year LOO.
Alvin looking for a center… let's Pius Suter go for nothing, brings in Kane.
Zadorov was let go for nothing, brought in Marcus Pettersson for a 1st
Poor asset management
Ur too old.. get out
Thanks Jim, you're next.. Canucks need to structure management around recognizable leaders/ ex-players.
Mckenna will be worth it
Thanks for this thoughtful interview Jim Rutherford.
I said it all along..What they did to Bruce was a shame and this guy did it….he should have been gone long ago
Do you know how many times I’ve heard the word culture change in 56 years.
GM is a start. Now starting with ownership flush the rest. If your going to rebuild, rebuild.
Think Rutherford should go, too old, he failed, best to get a younger president.
The real fan base are the ones that can't afford to go to these games,it goes that far back to recall hockey that had substance.
I would not fire the coach at this point. It isn't time. Let Foote coach next year and see if the young guys make strides.
THIS GUY GOTTA GO! HES A NIGHTMARE!! WOW! WE USED TO HAVE STANDARDS HERE! WHAT A JOKE! THIS HAS GONE ON FOR 11 YEARS NOW! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
I am Not one of these fans that talked sh!t about my team just because of how the season went, I haven't had the same feeling about my team ever since the Horvat trade. They have only been on the downhill trajectory ever since then.
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Stoked for cootes, lekkerimaki, and McKenna/stenberg/verhoef on the team next season
Rutherford is the issue it wasn't Alvin. The fans are getting fleeced, prices going up right?!
Time to go'n get ripped off in the bullsh!t Draft Lottery.
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Enough of this corporate culture crap this is Vancouver not Toronto,New York or even any city that is in the league…get it together and start building a western hockey team again
canucks is a scam for 57 years
I hate this franchise! Thanks for ruining hockey for me Aqua!!!
The insurmountable problem was Hughes; for years…
Before passing judgement think about how many times in life you sat there with your mouth shut and looking at your shoes maybe trying to mumble an excuse or 2.
So the guy who didn't make any of the decisions gets fired and the guy who made all the decisions gets to pick who's going to make all the decisions going forward
"They were loyal, respectful and they supported the team all the way through" now its time for ownership to get off their asses and reciprocate that !!! Build a team from the top down !! Rutherford and Alvin must go, then and only then can the rebuild truly happen IMO
There was a small group of fans who called for a complete teardown and rebuild 10 years ago.
We were mocked and dismissed outright by clueless fans and sports media.
Many of those "professionals" are gone.
Thankfully
Reality is a bitch.
Yeah right. We all know Patrick was just a puppet.
don’t complain about ticket prices if you guys are still going to sit your asses in those seats😂😂😂 how about actually stop buying tickets?
What a clown
Very unethical to comment so much on Hughes, a player that isn’t his anymore.
Rutherford looking his age eh
Rutherford needs to be fired too. He was the guy who built this horrendous culture of losing on the team. The way he treated Boudreau was reprehensible and he should have been fired immediately after that fiasco. To not know Boudreau had a year option was unbelievable. I knew that and I am only a fan, not the President of Hockey Ops. The JT/Petey thing where he basically told the entire NHL "we will trade JT for a bag of pucks. The first caller can have him." Unbelievably brutal asset management. If you knew there was a rift between JT and Petey, you should have traded one of them in the off-season before it blew up. Unforgivable at this level. Fire him now.