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What Would You Do as Canucks GM For a Day?
by Alanah McGinley on 11/06/08 at 02:33 PM ET
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Press release via Marketwire:
The Vancouver Canucks and Direct Energy announce the return of Direct Energy’s “You Call the Shots Contest,” where one lucky fan will experience what it is like to be General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks for a day. Direct Energy’s “You Call the Shots Contest” will award one fortunate fan and three friends a rare hockey prize package that will allow the group to experience a day in the life of an NHL General Manager.
You and me? Calling the shots? Well, hell, I’m in. What kind of stuff is involved?
“It was an experience that I will never forget,” said Lori Jones, who won the contest last year and lived her GM-for-a-day dream along with her husband, his brother and father. “My husband and I are huge Canucks fans and it was a terrific thrill for us and our family.”
Sounds excellent, but I wonder what Lori did with all that power. Is she the one to blame for the Canucks missing the playoffs last year? What in God’s name did they allow her to do??
The contest will grant one fan and three friends the opportunity to meet Vancouver Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis, catch the team’s morning skate at General Motors Place and watch a game from Gillis’ private box. They’ll also get a behind-the-scenes tour, a VIP dining experience, a centre-ice photo opportunity and a team-autographed jersey.
Umm. Alright, I guess we can’t blame Lori for the Canucks’ April Meltdown.
But we’ve learned something. Here is what’s required for one’s NHL General Manager Resume:
- watching morning skates
- watching games from luxury boxes
- visit dressing room and arena restaurants
- take photos of self with players
Sounds fun, but heck, I’ve done all those things at least once. And I’m not taking a job that cool and walking away with just an autographed jersey (although I will be taking that jersey, thanks). Oh no. I’d be doing at least some kind of damage that day.
If I was only allowed to do one big thing, I’d have to say that the freshly-unemployed Alain Vigneault wouldn’t be a happy camper (sorry, AV; it ain’t personal).
How about you?
You’re Canucks GM for a day and you’re allowed one big thing you to leave your mark on the team—what would you do?
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Institute a policy where, after choosing a game’s roster, the GM will secretly choose a player’s name at random who played but did not record a point in the team’s most recent loss.
At the game’s conclusion, the name would be revealed, and if it was a repeat no-point performance, said player would be scratched for a game.
Sorry Luongo, your name is on the roster sheet too, and we can’t have favouritism; Hordichuk, time to pop one in; and yes, you can still score a miracle goal from the bench, somehow, you just have to figure that out Sanford.
Posted by SENShobo from Waterloo, ON on 11/06/08 at 03:15 PM ET
Change those god awful jerseys back to the speeding skate logo from the 80s-90s.
Posted by Wilmnoca from US on 11/06/08 at 03:38 PM ET
I would spend the day keeping tabs on Kyle Wellwood, making sure he isnt visiting a McDonalds 
In all honesty, who would want to be the GM for a day when its completely meaningless?
Posted by PuckHound61 on 11/06/08 at 04:35 PM ET
Alanah…
I got the Canuck bank today!!! Thanks so much. It will be displayed proudly here in T.O.
Cheers...Jim
Posted by Jim Robertson on 11/06/08 at 04:49 PM ET
Yankee Canuck - Lordy. That Odjick photo would be a bit scary, no?
SENShobo - Nice try, Sens fan, but we’re not planning any new habits around the idea of scratching Louongo!
Wilmnoca - Really? I dunno. I’m not a big fan of the whale, but I like the blue and green. Considering the Canucks history of jersey failure, I don’t complain too much these days. 
PuckHound - Poor Wellwood. So much slander, so little time…
Kinger - Done. You’re fired!
Jim - You’re welcome! Here’s a story about that - when we took it to the post office to send you, the fact that the box was pretty large but it weighed almost nothing, the Canada Post employee asked if we were just shipping empty parcels of fresh air to Toronto these days.
(For anyone that doesn’t know what we’re talking about, Jim stole won my Canucks money bank a few weeks back...)
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 11/06/08 at 05:08 PM ET
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Making a trade would be too obvious. And you beat me to it with Vigneault. How about removing “Vancouver” and the whale from the damn jersey and just putting a grinning Odjick face on it instead?
You know, for a group of fans who have been retired by this same group, they sure don’t let us rest for that long before asking us back to do pro bono! Just name this contest something else; otherwise I’m sure the entire city can think of at least one beneficial thing to do as GM that both Nonis and Gillis wouldn’t do.
Posted by Yankee Canuck on 11/06/08 at 03:04 PM ET