The Vancouver Canucks have started cutting down their GM candidate lists
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman, 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Staving Season episode, on the Vancouver Canucks GM search. Friedman notes how the Canucks will start trimming their list of candidates. He lists who he thinks the Canucks have spoken with, and who has been linked.
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“But Vancouver, I think they’re going to start to cull their list a little bit here. So who do we know? Shane Doan been reported. Kevyn Adams been reported. Ryan Johnson been reported. Ray Whitney has been reported. Bill Scott, Rick Bowness, or sorry, Ryan Bowness, not Rick Bowness, that would be quite a story.
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I believe they also interviewed Patrick Burke from the NHL. I have to tell you, it is an enormous compliment to Patrick that he got interviewed by the Canucks, considering that the relationship between Brian and the Canucks has not always been smooth. Those waters have been rough at times. So when I actually heard about this, I was surprised and impressed that he would get that interview. But they did interview him, I heard.
There’s three other names I haven’t been able to confirm at this time, so I’m keeping quiet about them.
I believe they had some interest in Tom Fitzgerald, but Fitzgerald, I believe his true interest is in the Nashville job. So I’m not, I don’t know that that went anywhere. I’m not really sure.
I did have a couple of people who said they heard the Canucks had expressed some interest in speaking to Scott Niedermeyer, who works for Anaheim and is, of course, a BC guy. I am told that they never asked for permission. So I don’t know if it was one of those, like, maybe we’ll consider this. Maybe we’d be interested in something like this. And I don’t think Scott Niedermeyer would be.
You know, I’ve had a couple of people tell me that Niedermayer kind of likes his life, where he can dart in and out and be a family man as much as he wants to be, or his other interests in life. But I did have a couple different people who told me they heard the Canucks and Niedermayer. All I can say is that they never officially asked the Ducks for permission. So that it was either incorrect or it just didn’t go to that point.
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So, you know, we’ll see. I think they’re culling the herd a bit here, and we’ll see where it goes. Apparently, in some of these zooms, the Canucks had like five people talking to the one candidate. They were busy.
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