Comedy BRONZE out of Vancouver

[Cobiemonster]

Tonight's paid attendance is a sold-out 18,910, for which your Vancouver Canucks thank you

Ironic that there's a RONA sign saying "Doing it right" - guess the stat keepers aren't doing the whole attendance thing right

 

[Cobiemonster]

 

[puckhead]

@DavidEbner 10m
Overheard: Canucks arena security guard asks a team staffer "what's the drink of choice after a night like tonight" and the answer: "Lots."

 

[DragonfromTO]

All they need to turn it around is what every team needs... a guy like Albert

 

[dash]

Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun 55s Hearing whispers that perhaps change is coming sooner rather than later with the Canucks, perhaps as soon as today or tomorrow...

 

[jstewismybastardson]

All they need to turn it around is what every team needs... a guy like Albert

if only he wasnt out with a concussion ...

 

[mattola]

TEAM Radio ‏@TEAM1040 21m
MT @TSNBobMcKenzie: VAN situation is highly volatile, highly unpredictable. A LOT of money involved in making changes. Lots of moving parts.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

what do the Aquilinis love more than hockey ??? thats right ... lawsuits!!!




Still, no one knows what the Aquilinis are going to do and I don’t believe there is a betting favourite.

Some believe the owners would like to fire Gillis, and could pull the trigger before the end of the season. Many called his interview Thursday a success, but it may not have been viewed that way in the owners’ suite.

The Aquilinis are wildly furious with media reports that Tortorella was their hand-picked coach, something I’ll get into more later.

So you can imagine how they felt with the perception that in the TEAM 1040 interview Gillis was hinting he hasn’t been calling all the shots here.

Gillis’s comments are open to interpretation, but there are those who believed there was a “my way or the highway” tone directed at ownership.

When he said things like ”I deviated from things that have been successful,” some took it as him suggesting he hasn’t been in total control.

If the owners do fire Gillis, they will be hoping a new general manager would be willing to keep Torts.

That’s a big ask. Not only would the Canucks have to find someone willing to work with the Aquilinis, they would need to find someone willing to work with Tortorella. That’s a helluva frightening double bill right there.

Of course if Gillis goes, the Aquilinis would be doing it knowing a new GM may want his own coach. But that’s only if they don’t have a successor picked out already.

Are they really ready to roll the dice, and risk paying out an estimated $17 million to both Gillis and Torts to not work for them?

That’s a huge bet and not one the Aquilinis tend to make.


...

The Aquilinis have sent legal letters to two local media members, requesting a retraction and apology for suggesting ownership had a significant role in hiring John Tortorella. (for disclosure sake, I’m not one of them)

A libel notice must be sent within six weeks of an alleged libellous statement, and is the first step if you want to sue a publisher for libel.

In writing, you need to let the author know you believe you have been libelled.

In this particular case, the Aquilinis claim the reports, one of which says Tortorella was hired by consensus, were erroneous and Tortorella was their general manager’s choice, and one which they backed.

They also claim that by writing they had a prominent role in the hiring it was designed to “incite ridicule for making bad or embarrassing judgments.”

Neither writer or publication, as of this date, are planning a retraction or apology and both stand by their stories.

I would think this would be an extremely difficult case for the Canucks’ owners to win because, well, they are the owners and they write Tortorella’s cheques, so at some point, legally they hired the coach.

Reports the Aquilinis were “heavily involved” in the hiring process date back to before Tortorella got the job in late June. Those who wrote about the Aquilinis involvement did not start hearing from the owners until the season spun out into a disaster.

It’s been widely acknowledged that the Aquilinis were even present during the actual interviews between management and Tortorella, and that’s something the coach recently discussed.

The undercurrent of the Aquilinis argument strikes me as amazing.

The idea being whomever hired Tortorella is open to ridicule for making bad or embarrassing judgments is quite the claim by the organization.

What does that say about the coach?

I would love to see this one go to court.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

TEAM Radio ‏@TEAM1040 21m
MT @TSNBobMcKenzie: VAN situation is highly volatile, highly unpredictable. A LOT of money involved in making changes. Lots of moving parts.

theres been alot of pressure on Torts shoulders

 

[mattola]

is there a colour less than bronze?

 

[forty_three]

is there a colour less than bronze?

Cubic zirconia

 

[jstewismybastardson]

is there a colour less than bronze?

there are different shades that could be possible

sports day participation ribbon?
appreciative memo?
cookie?
shitstain on undies?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

season ticket renewals still havent started ... this process usually started in march ... a mass firing today means they can sell hope for the future

/renew your season tickets tomorrow !!! lol

 

[mattola]

season ticket renewals still havent started ... this process usually started in march ... a mass firing today means they can sell hope for the future

/renew your season tickets tomorrow !!! lol

nothing says give me your $12,000 with confidence to a better next season like "we have fired our GM and/or Coach and have no replacement and no plan you have 24 hours to decide!"

 

[jstewismybastardson]

nothing says give me your $12,000 with confidence to a better next season like "we have fired our GM and/or Coach and have no replacement and no plan you have 24 hours to decide!"

SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH OR YOULL BE SUED BY FRANKIE !!!

 

[jstewismybastardson]

remember that canucks hashtag #champagneproblems


Aquilini family buys Washington state Horse Heaven Hills winery
Canadian company buys more land in Horse Heaven Hills | Local Business | Tri-CityHerald.com






/or is there where they will bury the bodies???

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

@Real_ESPNLeBrun

Hearing whispers that perhaps change is coming sooner rather than later with the Canucks, perhaps as soon as today or tomorrow...

Gillis? Torts? Who goes first?

 

[mattola]

SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH OR YOULL BE SUED BY FRANKIE !!!

brb, someone is at my door

 

[jstewismybastardson]

brb, someone is at my door

PROTECT YOUR KNEECAPS!!!

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Botchford on the cesspool leaning towards Gillis getting canned first ... and Frankie wants to keep torts