{"id":613016,"date":"2026-04-18T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:48:17","slug":"group-chat-was-buzzing-vancouver-canucks-believe-locker-room-dysfunction-is-history-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613016\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Group chat was buzzing:’ Vancouver Canucks believe locker room dysfunction is history | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state of the Vancouver Canucks locker room was worse than we thought.<\/p>\n

The catastrophic downfall of the Canucks has been well-documented<\/a> ever since the infamous feud between J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson. However, we\u2019ve now learned that things didn\u2019t demonstrably improve following his departure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really bad,\u201d Canucks president Jim Rutherford said on Friday when asked about how dire things got in the locker room.<\/p>\n

He also dropped another fascinating nugget, suggesting that things didn\u2019t really improve until last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the trade deadline, and since the young, character, energy players have come in here and stepped up to bring that energy in the room, the chemistry and the culture in the Canucks dressing room over the last five weeks is the best it\u2019s been since I\u2019ve been here.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the deadline, the Canucks shipped out veterans Tyler Myers and Conor Garland.<\/p>\n

For Myers, he was seemingly a well-respected leader in the locker room.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love him. He\u2019s been amazing to me since the first day, texting me, making me feel comfortable,\u201d Buium told Sportsnet\u2019s Iain MacIntyre<\/a> when asked about his thoughts on the Myers trade.<\/p>\n

While Rutherford said he didn\u2019t want to point fingers at his end-of-season availability, his comments indirectly don\u2019t reflect well on Garland.<\/p>\n

And in case you don\u2019t believe someone like Rutherford, who isn\u2019t in the locker room on a daily basis, Canucks players have echoed similar thoughts on their increased togetherness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you, and every I\u2019m sure every guy in here said this, you know, how much closer of a team we were,\u201d Max Sasson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur group chat was buzzing every single day. We were going to dinners on the road,
everyone. I think there was a lot more buying in and a lot more energy around the group.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven on the bench, I think we\u2019ve had that conversation before, just about what a winning bench feels like. And I think the last 15 games, that was the closest that I\u2019ve felt, at least in my time here, that everyone\u2019s pulling the rope and everyone\u2019s rooting for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sasson has only been a full-time player for the Canucks since the end of October, but the longest-tenured Canucks veteran echoed a similar sentiment on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve hung out so much outside of the rink,\u201d Brock Boeser said on Sportsnet 650\u2019s Canucks Central.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten together, and almost everyone shows up. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a guy that hasn\u2019t shown up. That just shows how much each guy cares for each other. And I think that\u2019s important to just getting comfortable with guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

This narrative has been leaking out from Canucks players, coaches, and management over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to see a room starting to take care of things themselves, which I think, for years, was missing here, and [Filip Hronek] is a big part of that,\u201d Adam Foote said on March 11 when asked by Daily Hive about Hronek\u2019s growing role as a leader on the team.<\/p>\n

The Canucks may not be good next season, but at least they don\u2019t appear to be a fractured group anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state of the Vancouver Canucks locker room was worse than we thought. The catastrophic downfall of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-613016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}