Ian McIntyre

And especially since I did a couple of stories on these guys, you know, when they won the Calder Cup, I had talked to Jim Rutherford quite a few times on and off the record.

I knew how highly he regarded Ryan Johnson.

And I just thought, if it ever comes to be that they have

They have an opening, and Rutherford's still involved, which obviously he was on the search.

The Sedins made the choice, but Rutherford and Aquilini got it down to a couple of candidates.

I always thought, well, if the Canucks hire Johnson, which there's a good chance they will, then Johnson will hire Malhotra, and they'll see if what has worked down there works up here.

I can't say in terms of wins and losses is it going to work, but I'm pretty confident

culture wise setting standards and expectations and kind of refurbishing what it means to be a Canuck.

I think these four people that they've hired the last month are as good as any that you could possibly come up with to, to accomplish that.

And talking about Daniel and Henrik, of course, and, and Ryan, and now Manny, I can't think of four better people.

If the, the first objective,

is to reestablish some higher standards, reestablish, as I say, what it means to be a Canuck, try to reconnect a little bit with the community and get more engaged again.

These guys are going to accomplish that.

And then obviously their hope is that once you take care of that and you choose, obviously you have to choose the right players and they have to learn and develop and get better.

But if they can get this

culture and these standards established that the other stuff will fall into place.

We'll have to wait a while to see if that's the case, but I think it's been a pretty good month for the franchise.

Well, I mean, Ryan was asked that today, as you know, and he's, I believe he talked about measuring success if the players understand these new standards and they understand, Ryan likes to use the analogy, 8 a.m.

on a Monday or

or a 7 p.m.