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Dealing With Vancouver
by Paul on 06/23/08 at 06:42 AM ET
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from Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province,
The rest of the NHL, it seems, isn’t keen to have Gillis succeed. More to the point, they’d love to see him fail.
Moving forward, then, the question isn’t so much who the Canucks will bring in as their first-line centre but who will do business with the Gillis administration. That question will also bear repeating in the next little while because the early indications are troubling for Canucks fans.
By now, the circumstances of Gillis’s hiring are common knowledge around the NHL, and let’s just say there are mixed feelings about him. Dave Nonis, for starters, was a popular figure in hockey circles. He’s also a member in good standing of the Pat Quinn-Brian Burke confederacy, and the influence of those two men can be found in several organizations.
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