The Vancouver Canucks have played 100 games for their new management. Through a resurgent 2014-15 season, a 1st-round loss to Calgary, a troublesome offseason, and a dozen games into the 2015-16 season, the Canucks have played 100 games now for the post-Gillis Era led by Jim Benning, Trevor Linden, and Willie Desjardins.
From front-office changes in player management and asset management, right down to ice-level strategy and player deployment, the New Era is. needless to say, different from the days of Gillis, Vigneault, and Tortorella.
But do we have a concrete identity?
Perhaps the reason why the Canucks are surprising so many this year is the ambiguity of their identity.