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- Canucks Gift Guide: 10 must-have gifts for the man cave (The Canuck Way)
- Canucks call up Philip Holm, which means it’s speculation time (Pass it to Bulis)
- What do the Canucks have in Sven Baertschi? (Nucks Misconduct)
- Stretch drive will be a long audition for confusing Canucks (The Province)
- Playing out the stretch (Canucks Hockey Blog)
- Rick Dhaliwal showed us probably the best highlight of Darren Archibald’s career:
Archibald pic.twitter.com/CuvzjRTH5r
— Rick Dhaliwal (@DhaliwalSports) February 15, 2018
- The Canucks organized a moment of silence during Wednesday night’s game for those impacted by the event in South Florida:
A moment of silence for our South Florida community. Thank you to the @Canucks and the @NHL for standing with us. pic.twitter.com/geuFqPNofA
— Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) February 15, 2018
- Trevor Linden sent a letter to season ticket holders prior to the announcement of Jim Benning’s contract extension:
Letter from Trevor Linden to #Canucks season ticket holders this morning: pic.twitter.com/udjBFqMbl9
— Rob Williams (@RobTheHockeyGuy) February 14, 2018
Jim Benning: B
Trevor Linden: C
Travis Green: B –
Francesco Aquilini: A
Canucks: C
Francesco gets an “A” because he spends to the cap, while revenue is decreasing.
He gets a lot of grief because he “meddles”. As if he does not have the right to question management decisions and just let things play out without having an opinion, but still spend up to the cap. Would people rather have Melynk? Or Katz? He gets crapped on because he operates his team like a fan. All I know is I would have lost my patience with Nonis and Gillis as well…
Linden gets at least a B+ for realizing at a minimum that stability is important and not paying attention to the Twitterati et al calling for Benning’s head, despite the fact that they ALL obviously know more than the people actually in those hockey decision making positions. They do, don’t they?
Freidman also have props to the Canucks organization for ignoring the 100 or so vocal Twitter critics and media stooges and following a plan.
I really cannot understand for the life of me why they do not bring in media guys and train linden. It is not difficult. Do not let GMJM talk to the media. I do not need to be told anything.
Ignore them. Don’t say anything except the same phrases over and over. Life would be easier.
Sign Marshawn Lynch to a role in media relations
Or a pouting Cam Newton. “Nope” “Yup” “Nope” “Are we done here?”