Really would have liked to see them beat ToccQuit though

Regardless of what you might think of their on-ice performance, I think the Canucks need to do right and actually treat well the players who have continued to express their desire to want to play here and love for the city, including Demko, Boeser, and Petey. Rebuild the culture.

From whose perspective? I think if you could re-do things, especially knowing what you know now, they’d be more than happy to at least match the deal he got with the Islanders. IMO, anyways.

I think you’re bang on around Horvat. I think they messed up the team culture with the way they treated Horvat. I think it showed players if the team is willing to treat their captain and a guy who really wanted to commit to the team in such a way, then it could easily happen to them.

and less than a year after being named captain?

If all that’s true, then he was the albatross. I wonder if they had recognized that earlier if they would have named him captain? Or if they named him captain hoping he’d feel an obligation to commit to the franchise long-term. Guess we’ll never know.

They were barely watchable even with said player. I get the anger over losing a player like Hughes but I’m also trying to make sense of this timeline. If what’s being said is to be believed, he indicated he didn’t want to commit long-term the off-season after almost getting to the Conference Final,

In that case, this team is gonna be so much fun when Derek Forbort returns

Hah