Following the Vancouver Canucks’ disastrous handling of Bruce Boudreau’s firing and Rick Tocchet’s hiring, team president Jim Rutherford now realizes something: He should probably stop talking.
Rutherford apologized to Boudreau for at least that part of a spectacularly mishandled process, realizing he shouldn’t have bashed the Canucks’ lack of structure under Boudreau. Rutherford asserted his new plan is to take a back seat and let GM Patrik Allvin and Tocchet do the talking.
"Part of this process, and I will apologize to Bruce for this, is probably in my interviews over the course of the season, when people ask me a question, I'm probably too direct and too honest," Rutherford said on Sunday.