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How Canucks GM Rumors Start
by Alanah McGinley on 04/22/08 at 02:51 PM ET
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From Elliott Pap at the Vancouver Sun:
Gino Odjick is a friend of Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini, but the former NHL enforcer insisted yesterday he is not being consulted in the search for a new general manager.
“It’s just a bad rumour,” said Odjick, whose name was bandied about on national TV as a member of Aquilini’s advisory committee. “I’m not involved at all. Yes, we’re friends, just friends, but he hasn’t called me to ask what he should do.”
That’s because I’ve just heard from a very reliable source that Gino Odjick is actually the Aquilinis’ true target for the position. If all goes as expected, Odjick may be named to the Vancouver Canucks GM post as early as Wednesday morning.
(And THAT, my friends, is how stupid hockey rumors get started...) 
Anyway, the choices being bandied about so far (in no particular order) are: Mike Gillis, Brian Lawton, Jim Gill Nill, Trevor Linden, Pat Quinn, Doug Armstrong, Bob Nicholson, Steve Tambellini, Neil Smith…
That’s all I can remember at the moment. Got any rumors of your own to spread?
Update 7:18pm PT: Canucks GM has been named tonight.
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I did indeed mean “Nill” - I fixed it, thanks.
I think the Mike Gillis talk is stuck in my head, and my brain-wiring got loopy.
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 04/22/08 at 04:23 PM ET
This is just a suggestion, but the Canucks may want to look at getting a good GM instead of fishing for the minnows on that list.
Nill’s the only guy with legit GM upside, and there’s no way he’s leaving Detroit.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 04/22/08 at 07:26 PM ET
The new GM has been hired.
Mike Gillis, according to Global TV in Vancouver.
Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 04/22/08 at 07:45 PM ET
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I heard that indeed Odjick is being considered for the job, and will hire Pavel Bure as an assistant GM.
BTW Alanah, who is Jim Gill, dont you mean Jim Nill?
Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 04/22/08 at 04:19 PM ET