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The draft lottery may determine some of their thinking on the coach, though, which is odd.

But these are odd circumstances.

These are odd circumstances because if the Canucks win the draft lottery and they're going to pick first overall,

I'm pretty positive that they're going to go with Gavin McKenna.

I agree.

I'm pretty sure that they're going to do that.

I don't think, for example, that they would go with Caleb Malhotra first overall.

And I think that means they could, in theory, make a decision on the coach and say, if you want to bring in Manny to coach next season,

You could do that.

There have been some rumblings that they don't really want Manny to be the head coach if they pick Caleb Malhotra.

Now, here's the thing.

Jim Rutherford has said, well, my new GM is going to decide on the coach.

Right.

this is like pressure time for this is their playoffs right the pressure's on for them to roll out this process in a way that makes sense and everything is explainable afterwards and people aren't like what why did you do it that way

Or, you know, whatever.

And then they've got to go, boom, we've got to make some decisions.

They've got eight days.

It's fine.

If they don't name Rian Johnson the GM, if I was Johnson, I'd be like, okay, well, I'm going to go to another organization because obviously all the time that I put into this organization, you guys don't see me as capable of being a GM.

So I want to go to an organization that...