Satyar Shah

Here's the thing.

The Canucks would not have had success in the West Coast Express era if they hadn't made the Linden trade.

Because the Linden trade was a trade that kept on giving.

It turned into the Sedins.

It turns into Longo.

It continues on for so long in terms of giving this organization lifeblood to stay competitive and become a better hockey team.

And that's the best case on the Quinn Hughes trade that we look back at it and say, hey, without that trade, they would not have been able to move forward into a different era.

But that's not to say that

the execution was successful or that what you did was a good job in terms of the overall structure.

And sometimes things conspire against you.

You can have the best intentions.

And the point that Jim has made is, hey, we thought we were on the right track.

We did not anticipate that the locker room was going to implode the way it did.

And that was really the main reason why we had to pull the plug on things.

And those things do happen.

Sometimes things are out of your control.

But at the same time,

regardless of things happening that are out of your control, it falls on your ledger.

It's still your era.

It's still your tenure and your legacy on the line in terms of Vancouver.