Confirmed with Link: Trevor Linden steps down

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[WetcoastOrca]

TSN1040:

Oh oh. The wrong guy stepped down.

 

[Luongos Knob]

TSN1040:

Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[ziploc]

Aquilini could have said this all along. He's the owner of the team FFS, he can say whatever he wants.

This is just a lame attempt to sell more tickets next season, as the team is now committed to the direction fans have wanted for the last several years.

I very much doubt it. The hardcore fans who wanted Linden out do not comprise the thousands needed to fill the arena nightly. I don't think letting Linden go works at all as an attempt to sell more tickets. It is surely more of a conflict at the top. This is a fine move (and I still love Linden the player) but I am more concerned that we are getting a Jerry Jones-like situation here, with the owner believing he is capable of making genuine hockey decisions.

 

[Canucks LB]

Tsn1040: Sekeres:

I can 100% tell you, that It was Linden getting Hansen traded, It was linden pushing for draft picks not benning.
Linden had multiple prospects that he liked early on, and he basically was aggravated.

Maybe Linden did not seem happy with the signings potentially (ferarro)

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Lets take it easy on Linden here. He was never qualified for that job. Guy has been a class act his entire career and deserves respect for that

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Wow did not see this coming.

So many variables now, I think Benning is in the hot seat as a new president will most likely want his own guys.

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

Canucks announce new team president

 

[Canucks LB]

Sekeres is going off right now, Basically saying it's jim benning who f***ed everything up and linden has been wanting a rebuild for awhile.

Sekeres:

Linden I know for a fact at the start went to jim because he was experienced, but after he got the hang out of the NHL, He started to want to do more things his way, more focused on youth and a rebuild, and jim benning wanted to go in a different route.

(paraphrasing)

Crazy!

 

[VibinCanuck]

Benning reporting directly to ownership now?

No way that Pejorative Slur lasts the year, LOL.

Best move of the off-season by far. Just hire someone experienced and competent (Ron Francis could work)

 

[valkynax]

Lets take it easy on Linden here. He was never qualified for that job. Guy has been a class act his entire career and deserves respect for that

In my eyes, it doesn't work like that.

If I've donated 10 mil dollars every month to every charity on the planet, I still have no excuse to go to a bar and stab someone to death without consequence.

Linden's tenure has president has really showed me a side of him I never thought he had - dishonest, arrogant, and delusional.

I still remember how this side ways asshole implied that the fans knew nothing and how Granlund is Bergeron.

 

[ziploc]

When it comes to Canuck legends, I wouldn't even put him in the top 3 tbh. Sedin/Sedin/Bure have him beat. Might even add Luongo.

Sedin, Sedin, and Linden are in a three-way tie for first IMO. Then Bure and Luongo.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Sekeres is going off right now, Basically saying it's jim benning who ****ed everything up and linden has been wanting a rebuild for awhile.

Sekeres: (paraphrasing)

Crazy!

Sekeres is a dubious source of information. I have heard him outright lie on the radio.

 

[Bgav]

Sekeres is going off right now, Basically saying it's jim benning who ****ed everything up and linden has been wanting a rebuild for awhile.

Sekeres: (paraphrasing)

Crazy!

This is still the first step to get benning out of here

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Tsn1040: Sekeres:

Maybe Linden did not seem happy with the signings potentially (ferarro)

If he was really not that happy and didn't like what Benning was doing:

A) WTF did he hire him in the first place?
B) Why don't you get rid of Benning?

 

[kanuck87]

If Benning has any common sense, he would resign as well. His biggest supporter in the FO just left.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Sekeres is going off right now, Basically saying it's jim benning who ****ed everything up and linden has been wanting a rebuild for awhile.

Sekeres: (paraphrasing)

Crazy!

Not surprising. Ownership had been clashing with Gillis too. I don't agree with some celebrating here, I don't think Trev is the bad guy in this.

 

[Tim Calhoun]

This is FANTASTIC news. Hopefully we get a serious qualified president who can supervise Benning properly.

 

[Nuckles]

WHY THE f*** COULDN'T THIS HAVE HAPPENED BEFORE BENNING GOT EXTENDED


Oh well...one down, one to go...

 

[ziploc]

I would love it if we could hire some management who haven't played for the team. Not saying former players cannot be good at the job, but we need to break away from the nepotism club. It has not worked for us.

 

[Ace of Hades]

Sedin, Sedin, and Linden are in a three-way tie for first IMO. Then Bure and Luongo.

Linden is number 4 or 5 for me as of now.

My rankings on the top 5 overall greatest Canucks as of now :

1)Henrik Sedin
2)Daniel Sedin
3)Pavel Bure
4)5)Roberto Luongo/Trevor Linden
Hm: Markus Naslund, Kirk McLean.

Sometimes I have McLean over Luongo, other days I have Luongo over McLean.

 

[Ainec]

Cody Hodgson can be our dubas

he created advanced corsi after retirement

also young blood, only 28. Same age when Dubas started and same age as Chayka

#coho4pres

 

[Canucks LB]

Sekeres:

Jim Benning when signing his contract was always positioned to go directly to ownership, Not linden first.

 

[nucks88]

“A generation so much dumber than it's parents came
Crashing through the window”

God he was a great songwriter!

 

[Peen]

WHY THE **** COULDN'T THIS HAVE HAPPENED BEFORE BENNING GOT EXTENDED


Oh well...one down, one to go...

Something definitely tipped the scales.