Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini might not be a power-mad meddler on the order of, say, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, but he seems to like having his fingers deep in the pie.
Maybe too deep.
That buzz picked up over the weekend after a report on Hockey Night In Canada suggested that Aquilini was preventing general manager Jim Benning from doing the job he was hired to do.
Benning, the report suggests, has come to recognize the rapidly deteriorating situation in Vancouver for what it is: a sign that the Canucks need to abandon the half-measure, on-the-fly approach to improvement and commit to a full-on rebuild.