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On Monday, the Vancouver Canucks held their end of season media for Patrik Allvin and Jim Rutherford. Here are three notable topics they discussed.
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Extension News For Rick Tocchet
After Canucks Head Coach Rick Tocchet took his media conference alone on Friday, Rutherford provided some clarity on a possible extension. “We will not exercise the team option for him to stay. We don’t feel it’s right to have somebody here that may have his mind somewhere else, and I’d say that about anybody, this is not just about Tocc, but we believe that, and I believe that Tocc and his coaching staff did as good a job coaching this team this year, as they did the year before, when he was coach of the year. Now he was dealt a totally different hand this year from when the team won the Division. It was a lot of good work by him, a lot of good work by the players. But everything went right this year. We’ve talked enough about, you know, the incident that happened and affected the chemistry of the room and affected the play of the team in the first half and forced to trade. But with all that was going on, how he handled the situation and how he handled the team was really good. So I give him and his staff kudos for the job they did this year. As for his contract, we’ve gone through a process where we’ve negotiated, I would suspect sometime this week, he’ll have a decision. We have gone a long ways from where coaches have been compensated with the Canucks for years, forever, actually, and we’re hoping that he takes that contract and stays.”
The Long-Awaited Practice Facility
Another topic that came up was a potential practice facility for the Canucks. “We’ve tried hard to form a partnership with some of the local rinks. And, you know, we need 20,000 square feet that we can build a dressing room on to the rink somewhere, and then just you use the ice. And we’ve tried three or four different facilities, and for different reasons. It didn’t work out. I do feel we have more people working on this now,” Rutherford said. “We have more people working on this, and it looks like a new facility is going to have to be built to get this done, and there’s a couple of parcels of land that have been targeted, and that’s what we’re trying to work on now, but it’s going to take a while, and we’re all disappointed in that.”
Increasing Ticket Prices
While Rutherford specified that he is not in charge of ticket prices, he does understand the frustration of fans who may be spending even more to go to games next season. He elaborated on how the increase relates to the team’s expenses.
“Part of that is not just about the hockey team with the cap going up. That is part of it. But another part of it is the building that we have is investing money back into an older building that we’re fortunate is almost filled for every game and our renewal rate on season tickets is very high. It’s well into the 90%, so I can understand the frustration of people, but they do have to understand that the money’s being invested back into the building and offsets the cap. You know, part of what we deal with here, it’s not tariffs, fortunately, but it is the exchange rate. And all our cost of doing all our revenue is in Canadian funds. But when we have a $90 million cap, or 88 this year, going to 95 next year, that’s really like $130 million in our dollars with how we do our business. So you’ve got these different variables that we have to deal with and and unfortunately for our loyal, very, very loyal fans, that we’re thankful for, we have to keep up with that.”
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