The Canucks’ extension of J.T. Miller is a big bet on Bruce Boudreau (and Jim Benning)
The Vancouver Canucks changed their management in December 2021. The team was rebuilding after eight years of rebuilding. J.T. Miller signed a seven-year contract extension. Elias Pettersson, Quinn Hughes, Thatcher Demko, Brock Boeser, Conor Garland, and Vasily Podkolzin are core or pseudo-core players under team control for multiple years to come. Tyler Motte was shipped out and Travis Hamonic was traded for a third rounder.
Bruce Boudreau was brought in as a temporary replacement for Travis Green. Rutherford and Allvin were given multi-year contracts. Bodhure received a two- year contract with a double-sided out-clause after 2021/22 season. He started winning and changed the Canucks' core.
The Canucks are extending J.T. Miller's contract. Bruce Boudreau is the new coach of the team. The team was not competitive under previous coach Mike Green. Now, the Canucks have a better core and are on the right track. They are also more stable than they were under Green, who was fired. They will keep Miller for the better part of a decade. It's a big bet on Boden and Benning. He's the only difference between the old and the current team, which is on a good track but needs some upgrades.
The front office is betting on the team playing as well as they did under Boudreau. Baudreau has only coached 57 games for the Canucks to date. There is still plenty of time for that small sample size to be proven faulty.
The Canucks' extension of J.T. Miller is a big bet on Bruce Boudreau and Jim Benning. Bruce has won the faith of the Canucks’ faithful. Jim has been controversial in Vancouver since he was fired as Canucks GM in December of 2021. The core players, with the exception of Horvat, were all signed by the Bennedons.
Bruce Boudreau signed J.T. Miller to a contract extension. Rutherford and Allvin are happy with it. The Canucks' core that looked lost under Green has found itself again under Bodhreau. The new management team is almost certainly not finished making changes to the Canucks. Another RHD or two might have to be acquired at some point in the next couple of seasons.
