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Patrik Allvin: Hughes trade helps Canucks ‘retool with a hybrid form’
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Dec 23, 2025, 14:06 EST
For Vancouver Canucks fans who believed trading Quinn Hughes marked the start of a long-awaited rebuild, you might want to think again.
During the first intermission of Monday’s 5-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin joined Amazon Prime’s Monday Night Hockey panel to discuss his club’s direction.
During the interview, one quote, in particular, stood out:
“We felt that the package Minnesota came up with, with the younger players and it gives us a chance to step back here and retool it a little bit with a hybrid form and getting two young players, Buium is 20, Ohgren is 21 and we needed a center here and Rossi is a highly-talented player that’s very consistent in the league and just 24.”
Using words like “retool” and “hybrid” was especially concerning, given the narrative that came from the organization less than two weeks ago.
Following the Hughes trade, President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford met with the media, even using the word “rebuild” and ensuring Canucks ownership was in support of the plan. The press conference led the Vancouver faithful to start believing that the organization might actually commit to a longer-term rebuild after over a decade of unsuccessful retooling to try to remain competitive. Allvin’s comments on Monday, however, suggest something different than what was presented following the Hughes trade.
Rather than committing to a traditional rebuild, centred around patience and draft picks, the Canucks appear to be reverting to their old ways and pursuing a quicker reset, prioritizing young players, headlined by those received in the Hughes trade. Allvin’s comments more closely echoed what was reported in The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun’s article on December 19:
“The goal is to keep getting younger assets now in the post-Quinn Hughes world for Vancouver, but I would stop short of calling it a full rebuild. It’s more of a ‘hybrid build,’ as someone put it to me this week. They want to get more younger pieces but turn it around quickly enough.”
If what Lebrun reported is the case, which it seems to be following Allvin’s comments, the Hughes trade may not represent the start of a rebuild, but rather a pivot towards a younger core that management feels can springboard the Canucks into being a competitive club again in the near future.
Whether the “hybrid retool” will be enough for the Canucks to return back to being a contender, only time will tell. But for an already restless Canucks fanbase, Allvin’s comments may only fuel the fire.
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