Travis Green finally signed a contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks, but it never should have gotten to this point.
In any other normally functioning organization, Green is offered a contract extension after his success in the Edmonton Bubble. It earns the teams some more good PR points, the hockey operations team is aligned heading into the draft and free agency, and a potential dark cloud and distraction over the season are no longer possible.
Of course, that isn’t what happened. Green was left to twist in the wind for the vast majority of the season, left to talk about sensitive subjects like the Virtanen sexual assault case on his own, and had no incentive to “play the kids” down the stretch.