Kevin Woodley

But I do like what I hear.

And I think when you know the people involved, the Sedins, Ryan Johnson, Manny Malhotra, like you believe in the messaging.

I'll be curious to see what he has to say to more about style play and some of those things.

But I find it hard to,

I find it hard to pick apart this hire in any way.

I know there's a lack of experience, but he did four years and has been assistant.

He goes back to the American League and does the head coaching thing.

He has success.

You heard Ryan Johnson talk about the consistency of his delivery when they weren't having success last year.

Just checks a ton of boxes in terms of the path he's taken to get to here.

The alignment top to bottom gives you faith and hope that they're going to do this the right way.

And everything I've heard about him from opponents in the American Hockey League when I used to go out there on a more regular basis, opposing coaches and management, the players that I talked to this year in the Canucks locker room about their experiences, the players I talked to last year during the Calder Cup run, made you to believe that this is the start of a really good NHL coaching career for Manny Malhotra.

If you're a Canucks fan, you hope it's a long-term career here.

You take a look at Rod Brindamore in Carolina and what he's done.

Could this be the start of something like that here?

Only time will tell.

But he checks a lot of the same boxes in terms of experience as a player, what he's done, the different jobs he's done as a coach.

And I guess above all, his ability to communicate, his ability to delegate and empower the people around him.

empowering was something that I thought Rick Tockett actually, talking to people around him, he did really well when he was here, but I don't think it happened as much in the organization above him while he was here, and hopefully with the people they have involved now, there'll be a lot more of it moving forward.

Yeah, no, appreciate it, guys.