Five years after he was fired by the Canucks, Mike Gillis' name has once again surfaced in some media reports in Vancouver. imacSportsnet looks at Gillis' history with the team and whether a return would make sense now:
Given the way it ended for Gillis in Vancouver and with the Canucks trending back towards respectability, rebuilding around an impressive core of early-20-something players drafted by general manager Jim Benning, it is natural to be dismissive about the possibility of the old boss returning to oversee – or more likely, fire – the new one. Perhaps John Tortotella can come back to coach the Canucks, too, if that playoff run with Columbus doesn’t work out.
In his now famous 12-part Twitter series on Linden’s departure, Aquilini said a new president would be named “in due course.” But the owner told Benning, who told the media, that he was not actively looking to replace Linden and that the GM would run the hockey department. general manager Jim Benning and former president Trevor Linden on Monday, April 10, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jimmy JeongA Gillis return to Vancouver seems outlandish. But so did his initial hiring by the Aquilinis in 2008 when, with no NHL management experience but a lot of big ideas, the former player agent landed the job to replace Dave Nonis as Canuck GM. It was reported that Gillis was the only candidate Francesco Aquilini interviewed.
Gillis oversaw the most successful five-year period in Canuck history. Vancouver won five division titles, two Presidents’ Trophies and made it to Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final under his watch. Gillis’ record on trades and free agency were mixed and his draft history is abysmal. But his greatest failing was clinging too long to veteran players who were rewarded with no-trade clauses in return for salaries below market value. By Gillis’ sixth and final season, the Canucks were aging and stale, encumbered by nine NTCs and with next to nothing in the development pipeline.
The question now, as it was then, is what risk is there to changing regimes while the Canucks are already on an upward trajectory?
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