Sekeres and Price: Darren Dreger, on the present Vancouver Canucks head coach, Adam Foote. Was he handed a ‘dirty deal?’ What does his future hold?
“Adam Foote was handed a unclean deal. I mean, by way of the roster that he has, right? , when he began the yr, I feel a part of his sales pitch to get the job, to land the job as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks is, ‘Hey, , I’m a Quinn Hughes whisperer. So I, , I’m gonna I’m gonna get Quinn on course here. Every thing’s gonna be good. The team goes to be wonderful.’
Then you definately run into injury trouble. Then you definately’ve got the JT Miller trade. Then you definately’ve got Quinn Hughes, who gets traded, and now Adam put his coaching the worst team within the National Hockey League.
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So how much of that’s on him, how much of that’s the hand that he’s been dealt. And then you definitely pair that with the success of Manny Malhotra contained in the organization, and also you’re wondering, ‘Okay, well, if the rebuild remains to be fully in effect, are we higher this offseason to make a change that some consider may very well be inevitable?’
In order that’s saying rather a lot about what could occur, but we don’t know officially what will occur.”
Canucks AHL coach Manny Malhotra is NHL-ready
Sekeres and Price: Darren Dreger, on Manny Malhotra being ready to teach within the NHL, be it with the Vancouver Canucks or with a special team.
Matt Sekeres: “On, on, Manny, do you think there can be interest from other NHL clubs?”
Dreger: “I feel there could be. And, and that’s not firm. That’s just knowing what the view of Manny Malhotra was a yr ago, and the undeniable fact that Manny said that, well, he’s, he’s a coach that we’re maintaining a tally of, right?
And when, if you get to that level, that implies that other clubs, not only Vancouver, are monitoring, right? And so they have their list. It’s no different than players. , every team’s got their collection of whiteboards, and these are the players that we consider are in play. Listed below are the players that, as a company we feel we must always have interest. And so they do the identical thing with coaches at every level, right?
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And so again, the messaging last yr was that Malhotra was on the radar of a variety of teams. And again, just kicking tires morning on with a pair, and that’s why I said earlier, the assumption is he’s NHL ready.
And that’s not only Vancouver Canuck sources considering, based on what they’ve seen, that he’s NHL ready. That’s coming from other teams within the National Hockey League. So possibly Vancouver doesn’t move, anyone else will try.”
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