Randip Janda

As a rookie GM, there are some very interesting conversations that could be happening.

You know, obviously we've talked about Elias Pettersson, Jake DeBrus names popped up.

There's a bunch of others that have popped up in conversations.

We don't need to probably go down that road again, but we all know who we're talking about.

The other aspect of this, and I think from a deal-making when it comes to contracts, July 1st, if the Canucks decide to spend some money, if there's any players left to sign on July 1st when it comes down to it, is the AGM conversation, right?

When you make a change at the general manager position, senior management roles, as the Deans were coming in,

So assistant general managers, are they all going to stick around?

Are you adding?

Are you subtracting?

Emily Castonguay has taken a lot of the contract work over her tenure when it comes to the cap and just figuring out contracts.

Is that regime in its entirety sticking around?

So not only from a Ryan Johnson, what can he do in terms of his own deals and some big decisions coming here, but what kind of team are they going to

keep as well or are they going to add to the position if you're taking an agm and making them gm you're going to have to add somebody but are there potentially other changes as well or is it going to be a status quo so you know i think on a couple of fronts you've got some runway until july 1st no doubt about that uh but when it comes to the draft when it comes to you know making deals right after the stanley cup final if they're out there to be made of course the microscope is going to be out on ryan johnson and just seeing what kind of

deals he can make because hey the guys across the league as well the GMs across the league they want to find that out as well you know it might be similar to uh you know everybody's fantasy football league where you're at least sending out feelers to say okay what kind of what kind of deals does this guy make what's he capable of so I'm sure there's going to be some conversations had right after the Stanley Cup finals

Yeah, on that front, you know,

a couple of things, right?

You could say these are individuals that know Adam Foote, which could be a positive and a negative, right?

In the sense that

If you are looking at somebody that has the knowing of their inner workings and maybe, you know, the way that Adam, you know, coaches, I think that could be a, you know, a positive in the sense that understanding what they had to deal with last year with the injuries, what kind of manpower the Vancouver Canucks didn't have.

And Ryan Johnson would certainly know that because his Abbotsford team was,