Vancouver #Canucks’ top prospect rankings: No.10 to No.6, plus honourable mentions Let’s begin by spelling out the big-ticket items on the to-do list facing the organization this upcoming summer. With the end of any faint glimmer of Stanley Cup playoff hope, it’s time to shift our focus onto what the future holds for a hockey club that has made it clear that they intend to be a playoff team next season. There are games remaining in the Canucks’ season, but let’s take Tocchet’s outlook as an instructive one. So what are you going to do with the next four months?” Other teams are going to play late, we’re not. “Four months off sucks, but use it to your advantage. “It sucks, I feel bad for the guys obviously,” Tocchet said. When presented with the stone cold fact of this club’s elimination from playoff contention after Sunday night’s game Tocchet pivoted immediately to the future. Perhaps the most telling response, however, came from head coach Rick Tocchet.
Quinn Hughes and Elias Pettersson were disappointed, for sure, but this wasn’t unexpected and both players suggested to The Athletic that it hurt more last season, when the “Bruce There It Is!” run fell just short. Thatcher Demko wasn’t even aware that the club had been eliminated until we posed the question to him. Speaking to players in the locker room postgame, the sting of mathematical elimination was present, but subtle.
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