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Bic Nizar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

And there's that aspect of it, too.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

But right now, on top of public trust, one of the things that we've talked a great deal about with the Vancouver Canucks right now is culture.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

When you look at the previous group of the Ottawa Senators...

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

Do we talk about what a great culture set that group was?

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

They're having some success now, but that's also part of it.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

Who were your leaders, not just in the locker room, but as an organization?

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

And what direction was the organization trending?

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

And you can go through a list of trades they obviously had to make to send players out.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

But just generally speaking, did it feel like that was a good culture of a franchise?

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

And that to me speaks to also what direction this team needs to go in.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

Because you need to find...

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

prominent Iron Will leaders right now, and on top of the mistakes that were made, which, look, GMs can always learn from that, but personality traits and

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

All that stuff matters right now, going into this next era of whatever the Canucks are going to be, and Jim Rutherford still continues here, but how long will that continue?

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

So you're going to need big leaders to tackle not just a job of a rebuild, but to tackle a job of what this all is, that you have a fan base that is that active.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

Calling in, emailing in, voicing their opinion.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

You need someone that's going to be able to handle all of that.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

And even though there's history in a Canadian market, I look at, okay, what was the culture set?

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

Are you capable of taking on the huge task that is being the primary voice of this team?

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

You're the prominent name, and then not just, like, the water gets thrown at it.

Canucks Central
The Open: One Last Check of the Lottery Tickets

And I do think there's exciting candidates, too.