What’s He To Say?

So GM of the Vancouver Canucks goes on local radio Team 1040 and talks about the team, situations he has no control over and this has everyone jumping the gun!

In reality the season’s not over yet, so just let the guy’s finish it out and then we can all see what ownership has in store for a club that is frustrated with the way things are going.

GM Mike Gillis seemed concerned over his own future as well as that of his Head Coach, John Tortorella who simply would not let himself be drawn into the speculation over what might happen after the season is over – but it’s not!

Tortorella told the media about his GM’s comments “Mike Gillis is my boss and I can’t speak for Mike and I don’t know how to answer to him because I can’t speak for him. I don’t want to do that. Mike and I are always talking, but to answer that, I just can’t. It’s not fair to him or me.”

Sitting six points out of the final wild card in the Western Conference with only five games to play, the Canucks are set to miss the playoffs for just the third time in 13 seasons and the first time since 2008.

Tortorella did express no interest what so ever in publicly discussing his team’s future or his own future with the Canucks.

“You’re digging at a spot I’d rather talk internally about,” he said. “That’s probably something we can talk about after the season is over. I have to worry about coaching a hockey team. We have five more games, a team that needs to better and that’s my focus.”

Gillis spoke of his team’s inability to play up to the style and level of play that they’re accustomed to for much of the season and Tortorella acknowledged his concerns, but maintained that he and Gillis shared a similar vision.

While placing the onus on himself for his team’s decline in play, Tortorella shot down the suggestion that he was overworking his star players to the point of injury.

The Canucks have lost 282 man games to injury with key contributors or players that have missed a significant amount of time this season.

“It’s easy to look at numbers and say you played them too much and that is not why there’s been a struggle there,” said Tortorella.

“You’re not going to talk me into that. It just isn’t, but I certainly have tried in the second part, as we’ve tried to get healthy in the second part of the year, tried to stretch it, but a lot of it is determined on depth within your line-up.

I don’t want to go much further than that because I think I’ll be a little bit too critical and I don’t want to do that here.”

There is not question that he is a good Coach so let’s just wait and see what will happen when the season is finally over?

YOU MIGHT JUST BE SURPRISED!!!!