Rick Dhaliwal
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It hurts your franchise in so many ways.
They've got to pick a coach who's going to be here for more than one to two years.
That's one.
Second, Manny Malhotra, obviously they're talking to him.
It makes so much sense.
It just makes so much sense.
But there's a negotiation to do as well.
Manny's got an agent.
All coaches and GMs now have agents.
That wasn't the case years ago.
So we're now dealing with a middleman between the team and the coach or the GM.
That wasn't the case many years ago.
The Canucks didn't offer much for their GM job.
We know that.
But if they lowball Malhotra, that could cause problems.
This owner's got to pay a lot of people next year, Jason, not to work for him.
But Malhotra's got leverage.
He doesn't have to take a bad deal.
He's got one year left in Abbotsford.
He can honour that, then become a free agent, a UFA essentially, in 12 months.