If there was a power struggle they let wrong person go. I don t think much of our owners we should have owners with better ethics.
Nico Klaver - 6 years ago
If there was a power struggle they let wrong person go. I don t think much of our owners we should have owners with better ethics.
Nev Venables - 6 years ago
Thank you very much for your excellent leadership, hard work, and dedication Trevor. You're a class act and you will be missed by a lot of appreciative fans like me. Best of luck to you my friend.
Ron - 6 years ago
His biggest hire was Benning. If The Benning extension was Lindens decision than I support his departure. Benning has built probably the worst defense in the league and has kept the status quo for another year. His drafting has been hit and miss and his trades and signings mostly a miss. It's time to move on from old hockey guys who yearn for the good ole days. If your front office isn't young and dynamic your team probably won't be either.
Brian Banks - 6 years ago
Aquilini should sell me the team and maybe own something else? Cricket might be a good fit for the family.
W Patrick - 6 years ago
Yahoo, nice to see Linden go, and let’s hope
Benning is next.
If we have to have bad ownership, let’s at least
Have competent management.
Jay - 6 years ago
When it comes to any work place environment, culture has to be heavily maintained. A good culture where people are happy to work and go the extra mile is a successful one more often than not. This is a very general statement but from my interactions with the team and having brief encounters with the owner, it appears that the culture is rather weak or lacking. He walks through the stadium without acknowledging staff, makes the paper for not paying his employees, and everyone around the city calls him the "Slum Lord". I've never had the opportunity to meet other owners in and around the league or any other sports leagues, but guys like Mr. Blank for the Atlanta Falcons make the media for being praised by his employees and the fans. The staff in Philadelphia refer to Jeffery Lurie as "Uncle Jeffery" because he treats all staff with respect and acknowledges their work and efforts. Friends in Toronto have commented how well they were treated when they worked for the Maple Leaf. I love the Canucks and always will, but the culture is in limbo and I believe it starts with the top and works its way down from there. The running theme in this city is that the owner interferes with the hockey operations. How does that make the GM and coach feel? If that were me, I'm thinking to myself "this owner does not trust me to get the job done". Is it a coincidence that big ticket free agents have not come to Vancouver? Lots of questions surrounding this team and their owner who puts his employees out to dry and answer questions they should not be answering. The leadership is in a serious need of reform, but is the Aquilini family capable of changing for the better of the team and their product? At this point, I'm not convinced and find this Linden headline another reason to reaffirm my notions that the Canucks won't find their utopia or come close to it with the Aquilini family in control.
I think the Vancouver Canucks need a majority owner who has hockey experience and knows what it takes to build a winner. Trevor Linden was set up for failure. You have a group with lots of money but not keen to let the manager people they hire do their job. nothing will change until they hire the people to manage and stay to hell out of their way. As soon as the water has a ripple they panic. There has been too many good people left the organization in disgrace.
Brian - 6 years ago
Not trying to sign talent on July First left them without a competitive team. The guys who were signed aren’t good enough. They still need someone who will prevent the leagues goons from roughing up the young Canucks. They needed somebody to play 2nd line centre to allow Pettersson to grow into the role.
Bryce Whitehouse - 6 years ago
In my opinion the management team (Linden & Benning) should have had a chance to see their work of drafting, developing players and hiring staff come to fruition before owership stepped in. Realisticly 4 years to rebuild a franchise is not much time, and unfortunately Linden will have to see his work with Benning play out outside of the organization. In my opinion Linden and Benning have much more hockey experience than ownership and therefore should have been the ones deciding which road to go down for the rebuild and if it didn't work out, then as owners you act. It seems ownership was too impatient with the process and were too involved in hockey decisions. You hire a GM and president to make those types of decisions and I think the owners should have been more focused on maintaining the value of the franchise during a rebuild and leave the hockey operations to those with the hockey experience. It's unfortunate that that is not the case here and I don't think it's fair to let someone go who has been a part of building up a respectable amount of young talent, just because their view of a rebuild is different. Again if the owners were proven hockey managers and hockey operations gurus this would be different, but they are not, and it's sad they are removing someone who has given so much of his life to this franchise without even seeing the result of his work. Thanks for everything you have done for the Canucks and Vancouver Trevor you deserve better.
George Rees. - 6 years ago
Before you bake bread you must let it rise before you put it in the oven otherwise if you put it in to soon the bread will never reach its fulll potential and I,am sorry to say I think you jump to soon. You did not get this far by making hasty moves.
BRIAN LADD - 6 years ago
TREVOR WAS VALUABLE AS A PLAYER AND HE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GREAT PLAYER IN THE NHL.
HE WILL BE MISSED.
IT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD WITH WHAT THEY HAVE LEFT IN MANAGEMENT. THIS POSITION THAT TREVOR HAD IS WAY OVER THE HEAD AND ABILITIES OF BENNING.
If there was a power struggle they let wrong person go. I don t think much of our owners we should have owners with better ethics.
If there was a power struggle they let wrong person go. I don t think much of our owners we should have owners with better ethics.
Thank you very much for your excellent leadership, hard work, and dedication Trevor. You're a class act and you will be missed by a lot of appreciative fans like me. Best of luck to you my friend.
His biggest hire was Benning. If The Benning extension was Lindens decision than I support his departure. Benning has built probably the worst defense in the league and has kept the status quo for another year. His drafting has been hit and miss and his trades and signings mostly a miss. It's time to move on from old hockey guys who yearn for the good ole days. If your front office isn't young and dynamic your team probably won't be either.
Aquilini should sell me the team and maybe own something else? Cricket might be a good fit for the family.
Yahoo, nice to see Linden go, and let’s hope
Benning is next.
If we have to have bad ownership, let’s at least
Have competent management.
When it comes to any work place environment, culture has to be heavily maintained. A good culture where people are happy to work and go the extra mile is a successful one more often than not. This is a very general statement but from my interactions with the team and having brief encounters with the owner, it appears that the culture is rather weak or lacking. He walks through the stadium without acknowledging staff, makes the paper for not paying his employees, and everyone around the city calls him the "Slum Lord". I've never had the opportunity to meet other owners in and around the league or any other sports leagues, but guys like Mr. Blank for the Atlanta Falcons make the media for being praised by his employees and the fans. The staff in Philadelphia refer to Jeffery Lurie as "Uncle Jeffery" because he treats all staff with respect and acknowledges their work and efforts. Friends in Toronto have commented how well they were treated when they worked for the Maple Leaf. I love the Canucks and always will, but the culture is in limbo and I believe it starts with the top and works its way down from there. The running theme in this city is that the owner interferes with the hockey operations. How does that make the GM and coach feel? If that were me, I'm thinking to myself "this owner does not trust me to get the job done". Is it a coincidence that big ticket free agents have not come to Vancouver? Lots of questions surrounding this team and their owner who puts his employees out to dry and answer questions they should not be answering. The leadership is in a serious need of reform, but is the Aquilini family capable of changing for the better of the team and their product? At this point, I'm not convinced and find this Linden headline another reason to reaffirm my notions that the Canucks won't find their utopia or come close to it with the Aquilini family in control.
I think the Vancouver Canucks need a majority owner who has hockey experience and knows what it takes to build a winner. Trevor Linden was set up for failure. You have a group with lots of money but not keen to let the manager people they hire do their job. nothing will change until they hire the people to manage and stay to hell out of their way. As soon as the water has a ripple they panic. There has been too many good people left the organization in disgrace.
Not trying to sign talent on July First left them without a competitive team. The guys who were signed aren’t good enough. They still need someone who will prevent the leagues goons from roughing up the young Canucks. They needed somebody to play 2nd line centre to allow Pettersson to grow into the role.
In my opinion the management team (Linden & Benning) should have had a chance to see their work of drafting, developing players and hiring staff come to fruition before owership stepped in. Realisticly 4 years to rebuild a franchise is not much time, and unfortunately Linden will have to see his work with Benning play out outside of the organization. In my opinion Linden and Benning have much more hockey experience than ownership and therefore should have been the ones deciding which road to go down for the rebuild and if it didn't work out, then as owners you act. It seems ownership was too impatient with the process and were too involved in hockey decisions. You hire a GM and president to make those types of decisions and I think the owners should have been more focused on maintaining the value of the franchise during a rebuild and leave the hockey operations to those with the hockey experience. It's unfortunate that that is not the case here and I don't think it's fair to let someone go who has been a part of building up a respectable amount of young talent, just because their view of a rebuild is different. Again if the owners were proven hockey managers and hockey operations gurus this would be different, but they are not, and it's sad they are removing someone who has given so much of his life to this franchise without even seeing the result of his work. Thanks for everything you have done for the Canucks and Vancouver Trevor you deserve better.
Before you bake bread you must let it rise before you put it in the oven otherwise if you put it in to soon the bread will never reach its fulll potential and I,am sorry to say I think you jump to soon. You did not get this far by making hasty moves.
TREVOR WAS VALUABLE AS A PLAYER AND HE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GREAT PLAYER IN THE NHL.
HE WILL BE MISSED.
IT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD WITH WHAT THEY HAVE LEFT IN MANAGEMENT. THIS POSITION THAT TREVOR HAD IS WAY OVER THE HEAD AND ABILITIES OF BENNING.