Mike Gillis Letter to Vancouver STH

[JonDuke]

Not sure if this was already covered elsewhere, but I found this on Reddit:

Spoiler!

With the trade deadline a week behind us, I wanted to communicate directly with our Season Ticket Members. You are a very important part of the Canucks family, and I’d like to give you more insight into last week’s developments and our plan for the team going forward.
In addition, I will be inviting you to participate in a webcast after I get home from the GM meetings and upcoming road trip. I want to articulate our plans with you openly and want to give you an opportunity to ask questions so that you have a greater understanding of the vision.

Our mission remains the same: to win the Stanley Cup. Last summer we said we had to make some changes to our team. We need to get younger, faster and stronger to succeed. That process is happening now, as we look to retool by surrounding our veteran stars with new, young talent. You can look at Anaheim as a recent example of a team that has retooled successfully.

Trading Roberto was not an easy decision. We are grateful for his tremendous contribution to our team and city, and we wish him much success. But the moves we've made go beyond goaltending. We are now younger and we are getting deeper. We've added a big, strong 6'4" centre in Shawn Matthias, who is excited to be here and will help this team now. And we believe in our talented group of prospects, including Bo Horvat, Nicklas Jensen, Frank Corrado, Dane Fox, Brendan Gaunce and Hunter Shinkaruk, who will be part of our short and long-term success. We are also well positioned financially, having created over $5 million in cap room to make the right deals for this team. That's in addition to the $7 million we expect the salary cap to increase next season.

We approached the deadline with long-term success in mind. We were prepared to make a hockey deal on trade deadline day, not a short-term fix. The players offered at the deadline did not fit our vision of where we want our team to go. We need to get younger and more balanced to be more competitive, and we didn’t see the right players to accomplish that goal. We are not willing to compromise our long-term vision for the sake of change.

We are committed to putting a winning team on the ice for you. Our ownership is supportive and will invest whatever it takes to bring the Cup to Vancouver. As we move towards this goal we will continue to invest in your arena and Canucks fan experience.

Thank you again for your continued support. We are enduring a challenging period, but your passion makes it possible for us to put our team in a position to compete. Our organization is committed to doing whatever it takes to win, and we want you to be here with us when we achieve our goal.

Sincerely,

Michael D. Gillis
President and General Manager
Vancouver Canucks
WE ARE ALL CANUCKS

[DOOM]

"talented group of prospects"

lol

If by talented he means one of the worst prospect pools in the league then I agree.

[Samiz]

How Edmonton-esque of him

[Red Slinger]

Sounds like a man concerned about the fanbase turning on him (and subsequently losing his job).

[Heavy Jack]

man oh man how I forgot how much I hated that 'we are all canucks' slogan.

Happily not a canuck in two 4-3 wins at that place

lol at Brendan Gaunce too haha

[To Be Quite Honest]

Every time I read "Prospects" I always think Sons of Anarchy. We all know what happens to most prospects on SOA! Then my brainz starts putting them in the situations that SOA prospects have to do.

[Heavy Jack]

Also, he writes sentences literally how he talks. No more than a few words per sentence. That is Mike Gillis writing/talking 101. He's excited about adding a couple of words to his vocabulary. Shoulf improve sentence structure in the long run. But it keeps it fresh too. WE ARE ALL CANUCKS!!!!!

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by Samiz

How Edmonton-esque of him

Sounds more like the Flames under Feaster than Edmonton.

Good news Vancouver isn't going to go full rebuild. They are on their way to finishing 9-10 for the next 2-4 years.

Their prospects SUCK and their veterans are 33+. That team is screwed and signing Cammy in the offseason (I predict he is brought in for offense) will not do anything

[kyuss275]

Josh Rimer tweeted that he heard th nucks will have a fire sale at the draft. Kessler, Bieksa and Edler.

Gillis can write any thing he wants, I highly doubt he makes it more than 2 weeks after the nucks season.

[Erick Estrada]

Bo Horvat, Nicklas Jensen, Frank Corrado, Dane Fox, Brendan Gaunce and Hunter Shinkaruk

Boy that looks like a circa 2007 Darryl Sutter prospect base.

[undercoverbrother]

Awesome.

[mrdonkey]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Boy that looks like a circa 2007 Darryl Sutter prospect base.

At the risk of going all 'moon' on this thread, it's not like the current group is that much better...

[Huntingwhale]

He must have been drunk when he wrote that

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

At the risk of going all 'moon' on this thread, it's not like the current group is that much better...

It's considerably better.

[saXon]

That read was quite entertaining.

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

At the risk of going all 'moon' on this thread, it's not like the current group is that much better...

Lol it's way better.


Any time a GM feels the need to include a recently signed overager you know something is up.

[shermanator]

I, for one, look forward to many years of Vancouver. I'm sure Mr Gillis looks forward to his new recommended sport; knitting.

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[Violator]

Gillis you are a ####en ######

[Da_Chief]

How would you like to be a prospect in that organization and how do you feel after you didn't get mentioned? UFA prospect like Fox got mentioned and he pretty much mentions their recent first rounders. "Rest of you are crap!" Mike Gillis.

[bubbsy]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

At the risk of going all 'moon' on this thread, it's not like the current group is that much better...

nm. mis-read your statement.