Rick Tocchet will be taking the place of Bruce Boudreau as the Vancouver Canucks new head coach.

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Rick Tocchet is a veteran of the game and most recently coached the Arizona Coyotes, leading them to the playoffs in 2020 for the first time in eight years.

While Tocchet may be a terrific coach I don’t see him magically turning things around for the Canucks.

That’s what management and higher ups in the Canucks hoped would happen with Bruce And look how that turned out. They gave a losing team to a veteran coach, halfway through a losing season and then when things didn’t work out they fired him for someone else.

This is the same exact situation.

Rick will be getting a losing Canucks team halfway through the season and when he can’t turn it around by this time next year expect the same fate for him as Bruce Boudreau.

What the higher ups in the Canucks organization are thinking is beyond me. And I can’t seem to put together why Tocchet thinks this is a good move for him! I hope he was given a fair sum of money for the one year he’ll be with the team.

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The Canucks lost 4-2 against the Oilers last night and will face the Blackhawks on Tuesday.