Rick Dollywall
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They need to hire a coaching staff that lasts more than 24 months.
Five coaches in five years does not help you land free agents on July 1st.
I talked with a big-name agent this week, and he told me very simply, Vancouver's got a long way to go.
to become a destination for free agents again.
Right now, his clients are not telling him, get me to Vancouver.
Stability helps.
Coaching changes every year is not stability.
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.