With six games remaining on the Vancouver Canucks’ schedule, questions about the future of head coach Adam Foote have resurfaced.

Around the National Hockey League, teams are starting to get ahead of making their changes.

It all started just over a week ago when the Toronto Maple Leafs fired their General Manager, Brad Treliving. That sparked other teams to look in the mirror and make their changes. The Vegas Golden Knights fired Bruce Cassidy and named John Tortorella their new bench boss. The New York Islanders relieved Patrick Roy of his duties and signed Pete DeBoer to a multi-year contract. And just yesterday, the New Jersey Devils announced that Tom Fitzgerald will depart the organization.

Former Canucks forward Jannik Hansen joined Canucks Talk on Sportsnet 650 for his regular hit and discussed his stance on whether the team should make a change at the head coaching position:

“It’s a performance-based industry. You can’t come back after that. That would be my opinion. Now, I did not want a change. I was looking for these things too. Can he develop the defence? Can he get a structure in there? Can he fix the PK? And yeah, player personnel was not there and all those things, but you need somebody new coming in there. A new person coming in with a fresh set of eyes. You’re going to get probably half a new roster this offseason as well. Maybe not half, but I can easily see six or seven new players coming in, starting up next year.

“Put a new guy in charge. Somebody who can hopefully grow with the young core here. Not somebody you’re looking to turn over the next year, so to speak. This year, because of the way the season started and the expectations, which were a playoff spot, didn’t happen, heads will have to roll. And oftentimes, the first one is the coach. So that’s probably a good place to start. And then get somebody else in there who can kind of take the reins from a rebuilding perspective and not a ‘Hey, we’ve gotta make the playoffs. Okay, we weren’t good enough, now we’re going to rebuild with the same guy, but things didn’t work.’

“I’m all for that now.”

It will certainly be a difficult decision for the Canucks to make after the season. If they move on from Foote, they are still on the hook for another two years of his contract. However, if they keep him around, they could potentially lose their aspiring coach down in Abbotsford, Manny Malhotra, as he is drawing interest from around the league.