[Batchelor] Foote : Nos anciens combattants sont ceux qui se sentent les premiers vaincus. Cela dure ici depuis quelques années. On perd notre jeu, on est frustré, on complique trop les choses… C’est quelque chose qu’il faut sortir de notre culture. Notre culture ne sera plus cela.
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PaperMoonShine
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It’s okay, he’s doing his best to not let his tank draw attention to Bettman.
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This is extremely telling, Foote’s been protecting their ass to the media all year but even he’s had enough. Blow it up.
Hopefully the culture won’t be an issue after drafting high for the next few years and the entire core and coaching staff is different
It starts by trading off most people right now with trade value and bringing in culture guys with no intent to win, think of Foligno in Chicago as a recent example
and these are the vets we want to guide young players? 8 tickets out of Vancouver please.
also just laughing back at Allvin saying there was no culture problem back when Hughes was traded and his long pause when asked if EP40 is the center to take us to the cup.
Foote may not be the greatest coach in the world, but this team’s culture has stank for a while. It’s time to cut the cancer out.
Even before Tocc, there was little reason a team with three 70 point Centres, a Vezina level goal, and a future Norris winner should have been playing that poorly.
Foote, just admit you’re a shit coach
You guys realize he said this after our best game in a while right? The players, apparently, stopped listening to him as closely out of frustration and then did much better and he’s upset. But sure, ok guys, blame the players.
Petey-Tocchet v2
Listening to that live was awesome, completely eviscerated them
The culture has been terrible in Van for quite some time.
Getting rid of Hughes was the right move.
Bringing in Kane was a bad move.
Now we need to get rid of the rest of them and management… and in an idealized world ownership, too.
No more moody mopey sullen guys in the core. The core sets the tone for the rest of the team.
The Sedins were quiet and reserved, they weren’t sullen. They got up in front of the media day after day and acted like leaders. Core players who cannot or will not do that need to go.
I miss Bo.
Flashback to when Allvin laughed off Brough’s suggestion after the Hughes trade that there was a deep-rooted culture problem. Loved him denying that the organization had any culture issues and dismissing the idea outright, and now the coach comes out and expands on the same theme.
It’s also interesting that Foote is only now acknowledging this after spoon-feeding ice time to veterans all season regardless of performance, while blaming most of the team’s struggles on injuries and young players making mistakes as they learn the league.
Ah so he’s totally lost the room eh. Ouch
There’s nothing left to salvage here. I’m all for having vets in the line-up, but with the exception of a few guys, these aren’t the ones you want mentoring the next era of Canucks players.
I’m sorry.. But huh? He’s deciding to say this now after our best game in a while? Not after the 10th loss? Brother, your system sucks.
This narrative that we have a « culture problem » and have had it for a few years is such a BS excuse.
We’re at the moment icing a roster with one legitimate NHL center, wingers that are ice cold, and three rookie defenceman as well as our backup goalies. That’s why we’re losing, not because of culture problems.
We didn’t have culture problems when in the early 2020s. The defence was just very poorly constructed while we had good offensive talent. It wasn’t a culture problem 2 years ago when we were a legit contender.
Allvin did say more transactions to come today cause they need a hard reset
So you mean the most emotional veteran in the league who regularly wore an A while giving up on plays/games/seasons who was then encouraged by the organization to bully their young star didn’t leave a lasting legacy of emotional intelligence and steadiness for the other guys in the organization to learn from? No way.
Hmm interesting timing right when he’s going to get one of his centers back next game. This screams management poking him saying « do something »
Fuck Aqualini
I can appreciate his honesty but it shows his character.
I would have thought a vet like him would be a better leader as a coach. He never blames himself or puts himself on the same level as the team. He stands in his ivory tower and just chirps them telling them to stick to the system and it will all be rainbows and butterflies. He’s just as much guilty for perpetuating the culture as much as anyone, might as well be a bystander. Leadership takes a lot more than a system and being a nice guy, at this point he hasn’t proven jack.
Gets off their game. Sounds like that would describe Petey to me but I could be right off base. If true, I hope they ship him out though. He can’t survive a rebuild here.
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I don’t really wanna hear anything about culture coming from management or the coach tbh. Good winning culture starts at the top.
sorry guys but who is foote referring to in terms of vets?
You can trace this back years now to Boudreau saying he’s never seen a group of players get as down on themselves as easily as this Canucks core does.
Clean house. It’s time for a fresh start for all involved.
So for years he identified the problem but cannot fix it? Ya its not them its you at this point.
I’m starting to think the morale and culture of this core has slowly been chipped away at to what it is now starting from the after the bubble season.
– Losing all those free agents in 2020 (Tanev Toffolli etc)
– Bo getting traded because of cap issues when he clearly wanted to stay
– Boudreau getting hired by the owner only to get fired by the new management to hire Tocchet.
– JT Miller asking out and feuding with Petey
– Tocchet quitting on the team.
– Quinn not wanting to resign
– Demko being consistently in and out of the lineup for two years now.
Im not making excuses but I think the frustration and general morale starts to get to a team at some point especially when a lot of these things was because of mismanagement from the organization itself.
When he says veterans at this point he’s basically saying Elias and Brock. The question is if those two can demonstrate the work ethic and leadership to carry the next iteration of this team.
At some point even bad coaches need to be blessed by players who show up with passion, a strong desire to win, and a work ethic that exceeds expectations.
They’ve been blaming the culture and saying they’re working on it for so many years now that it’s lost all meaning. It’s just another BS excuse for being mediocre.
« Blame the culture and cashews! Not me »
Bad culture you say? By god, that sounds like Torts’s music! What could possibly go wrong a 2nd time?