Jim Rutherford

Our staff feels very confident.

They like players that are going to fall in there.

So this could be a game changer for the Canucks if, in fact, the staff hits on three or four of these players.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, everybody gives, that's one of the questions.

Where's the Canucks now?

What do you think?

How long is the rebuild thing?

Take all those things.

And different answers on, you know, I mean, some people felt that,

where we are in the rebuild, that we are, you know, through a rougher patch of it and start to take the upswing on it.

I think all of them acknowledge that there are some good young players here.

But in a rebuild, there's still lots of work.

One of the things we interviewed some people that could fall into where we draft, and of course we asked them about the draft, and the few people that were in that position

respectfully declined to give that answer, which I really thought was great.

They protected their own team.

They protected their own area.

But overall, the guys were very upfront, very honest, and clearly, you know, we learned a lot of stuff.

Think about it a lot.

And I'm going to get away from the day-to-day operations.