Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin Gets Candid About Rumoured Plans to Enter Full Rebuild
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Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin opened up on Saturday night following the team's win over Columbus about a potential for the club to rebuild.
The word rebuild has been thrown around quite a bit in Vancouver over the last couple of weeks as the team's start to the 2025-26 season has left many fans wondering if it's time for the organization to tear this roster down and start over.
A report came out last week from Rick Dhaliwal of Donnie & Dhali who said that the team's ownership group does not want to rebuild and haven't had much of an appetite to do so in the past despite having it brought up to them by former General Manager Jim Benning.
While fans understandably have mixed feelings about what a potential rebuild could look like for the organization and how long it would take them to completely turn things around and become successful again, it doesn't appear that one will be happening anytime soon following comments made by Patrik Allvin last night.
Patrik Allvin opens up about potential rebuild for Vancouver Canucks
Following the Canucks' win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Hockey Night in Canada, General Manager Patrik Allvin was a guest on After Hours with Scott Oake where he was asked if a rebuild was in the cards for the team.
Allvin danced around the question a bit, but basically said to Oake that a rebuild is not going to happen for his club anytime soon, adding it's hard to do so when they have top talent such as Quinn Hughes, Brock Boeser, Elias Pettersson and Thatcher Demko.
"Well I don't think you can do that when you have good players in Quinn Hughes, Demko, Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser, and then the next wave of young players in Willander Pettersson, Mancini, Lekkerimäki. Very excited to have Braeden Cootes playing well in Seattle. I think he had a six point game tonight against the Giants. And we have Medvedev the goalie [with the] London Knights. So I think we're prepared well for it. Obviously you don't want to put young players in a position to fail in the National Hockey League, but I do see a lot of growth. And another guy Aatu Räty here getting big minutes and took a key faceoff in the end [of the game] here. He's another guy who's just going to grow again." Allvin said.
It's easy to see both sides of this - Patrik Allvin & the organization believe they can be competitive with the group they have right now featuring guys like Hughes, Boeser & Pettersson.
However for the fans, who have only seen one trip to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the last five seasons heading into the 2025-26 campaign, if they're to miss out once again and eventually lose Quinn Hughes, either via trade or free agency, then it's understandably to see why they believe it's time to tear it down.
Source: Canucks Army
Patrik Allvin throws cold water on a potential Canucks rebuild
Patrik Allvin throws cold water on a potential Canucks rebuild
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