Elliott Friedman

It is pretty clear to me that, and I think anybody who watched the media conference from Jim Rutherford on Friday has the same opinion.

that whoever wins this job is going to be running the Canucks.

Like this is the next hockey operations boss of the Canucks.

And Jim Rutherford admitted it.

His time there is getting shorter.

It's just a matter of when, not if.

So this is an interview for or a process for the next hockey boss of the Vancouver Canucks.

You know, the whole thing with Alvin is I just think it came down to this.

If Rutherford was out, then I think Alvin was going to be – the choice was hand him the job or not.

And I think ultimately ownership decided not.

And, you know, it's the same thing I kind of feel about Foote.

I think a lot of the problems here –

they might take some people down with them.

I don't know that it's entirely fair.

I don't know that it was in complete control of everybody who might be sacrificed here.

Unfortunately, that's the way this business goes sometimes.

The most difficult thing for me to predict is what ownership will do because, Kyle, the ownership's history is familiarity.

This is the first time

in 20 years where they've made a change and they didn't have someone immediately there to do it.

When they fired Dave Nones, they had Mike Gillis ready.