{"id":271855,"date":"2025-11-09T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271855\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:13:08","slug":"patrik-allvin-throws-cold-water-on-a-potential-canucks-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271855\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrik Allvin throws cold water on a potential Canucks rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vancouver Canucks<\/a>\u2018 loss to the rebuilding Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night reignited plenty of conversations about whether or not the Canucks need to finally undergo a true rebuild of their own. Recently, we explored how the Canucks\u2019 half-hearted attempts at retools<\/a> have left them in the mushy middle \u2014 not good enough to contend for a Stanley Cup, but not bad enough to fall low enough in the standings to draft elite talent, either.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night\u2019s edition of After Hours, Scott Oake and Iain MacIntyre sat down with Canucks GM Patrik Allvin. Oake asked the Canucks GM point-blank about the possibility of a rebuild, after Oake said he received about 400 responses from Canucks fans, 75% of which were asking about a rebuild.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the question Oake asked:<\/p>\n

\u201cYour fan base [is] shall we say, restless; concerned the season could be slipping away, and that\u2019s when in this market, the word \u2018rebuild\u2019 comes up. We might have got, I don\u2019t know, 400 questions for you tonight via Twitter, and I think about 75% of them mentioned the word rebuild. We could spend the rest of the time we have with you here tonight trying to get you to say that word, and we probably would not succeed. What is the plan?\u201d<\/p>\n

Allvin\u2019s response in full:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, if you go back three years ago, when we got here, we won the division two years ago, and we felt very strong that our team was good. Obviously, what happened last year wasn\u2019t in the plan with J.T. Miller, and we had to reverse our plan and get into a more of a transition mood here. That being said, we wanted to draft well, we wanted to have young players in the pipeline and develop them down in Abbotsford. We see the young players coming up here right now with Pettersson, Willander, Lekkerim\u00e4ki \u2014 there is a couple other guys, Mynio, Kudryavtsev, Ty Mueller down in Abbotsford here \u2014 that are getting a lot of extra minutes down there too. So that being said, we\u2019re transitioning our team here as we started the season, I believe as the fifth youngest team when they had the opening night roster and I believe we\u2019re still very young here, and they get the experience. Absolutely. And I think the plan, obviously, as I said, it absolutely changed a year ago when we parted ways with J.T. Miller for different reasons.<\/p>\n

Oake\u2019s follow up:<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely though, Patrik, you are aware of the sentiment around town that says you should tear it down and start again, are you not?\u201d<\/p>\n

Allvin:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell I don\u2019t think you can do that when you have good players in Quinn Hughes, Demko, Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser, and then the next wave of young players in Willander Pettersson, Mancini, Lekkerim\u00e4ki. Very excited to have Braeden Cootes playing well in Seattle. I think he had a six point game tonight against the Giants. And we have Medvedev the goalie [with the] London Knights. So I think we\u2019re prepared well for it. Obviously you don\u2019t want to put young players in a position to fail in the National Hockey League, but I do see a lot of growth. And another guy Aatu R\u00e4ty here getting big minutes and took a key faceoff in the end [of the game] here. He\u2019s another guy who\u2019s just going to grow again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oake:<\/p>\n

\u201cI will ask you this. What do you think when you see teams like Anaheim, Chicago, and San Jose who tore it down and rebuilt ahead of you in the standings<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Allvin:<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I mean, they were probably in a different process than the Canucks were. But I think again, when you have players like Quinn Hughes and Elias Pettersson, and Demko, there is no guarantee you\u2019re going to find them in the draft again. Our scouts have done a really good job finding guys outside the first round. And I think that\u2019s [what\u2019s] going to set you up to be be successful as you move forward. Same thing finding college free agent players in Max Sasson and Arshdeep Baines was a free agent signing out of Red Deer. I think those are credit to our scouting staff and they will continue to find those players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the clip:<\/p>\n

Patrik Allvin gives his thoughts on the idea of a rebuild in Vancouver. <\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

So while a rebuild certainly isn\u2019t on the horizon right now, the Canucks might be left with little choice if Quinn Hughes elects not to sign an extension this offseason. For now though, the Canucks have their sights set on a busy and challenging November schedule<\/a> that could very well define their season when all is said and done.<\/p>\n

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