Satyar Shah

It's the head coach.

They speak literally every day, sometimes twice a day.

Before the game and after the game.

So that's the touch point to what you're saying, that every individual outside is reacting to and listening to and seeing.

And being able to communicate off that I think is important in the Canadian market especially.

But that's not the most important thing.

It comes down to ultimately, do you get the players on board and can you develop these players?

And that's going to be Manny's gig here, right?

How much can you progress the careers of these individual players?

And it's funny because, you know, West and Mike and others are texting in and I've seen the similar sentiment.

Is there a scenario where everything goes right and the Canucks exceed expectations next season?

That's what West and Mike and others have asked the exact same questions.

It exists because we've seen, I mean, we saw with the Flyers, like it can happen even for teams that are more deficient in their talent level.

Now, I think the likelihood of that with this current Canucks team is not very high.

But what does exceeding expectations mean?

Does it mean making the playoffs?

Does it mean getting 65 points this year?

Does it mean getting 70 points?

Like that kind of comes down to how you view progress.

I'm not sure 65 is exceeding expectations.