The Vancouver based Aquilini Brothers Roberto (R), Francesco and Paolo (L) announce the purchase of Seattle based John E. McCaw Jr.’s fifty percent interest in the Vancouver Canucks during a press conference at the General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia on November 9, 2006. The Aquilini’s are now sole owners of General Motors Place and the Canuck’s franchise. (UPI Photo/Heinz Ruckemann)

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According to Province reporter Patrick Johnston, in his article, Penguins 4, Canucks 1: A lifeless loss on a road to nowhere:

Canucks ownership is apparently pondering its next move, stunned that things have gone so badly. Postmedia News understands that chairman Francesco Aquilini and his brother Roberto Aquilini are at odds over the direction of the team.
Roberto’s never been much interested in the team’s affair, it’s been seen as Francesco’s ship, but if the family name was being sullied, and we know fans aren’t speaking well of ownership right now, then he’d be concerned, possibly even towards action.
This appears to be the case, though what course might be taken is not known.
Ownership’s past trend has been to have a succession plan in place before making any management changes. Before Mike Gillis was replaced, Trevor Linden was lined up to be the new president.
When Gillis was hired, that came right on the heels of the dismissal of Dave Nonis.
Further, before Gillis was dismissed in 2014, he was prevented from dismissing coach John Tortorella by ownership. (Tortorella, of course, was dismissed by Linden, after Gillis was sent out the door.)
There’s plenty of reasons to think that debate at the management level is why Benning hasn’t tried to at least change his coach, Travis Green, something that is usually understood to be a GM’s last manoeuvre before facing his own dismissal.

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TSN’s Vancouver correspondent, Farhan Lalji joined Matt and Blake. Started off with a road report and the highway. Followed that up with what he is hearing from the Canucks lately. Says it’s interesting there was a meeting today. Thinks that a head coach change is a better way to make a bigger impact. Doesn’t think that Travis has lost the room but might have lost one or two players. Coaching is harder than it’s ever been before. EP40 is a shell of a player that he has been before. Seeing him getting knocked off the puck as easily as he does is an indictment. Also that opposing coaches aren’t hard matching up with him.

Talked about the Lions. Talked about Michael Reilly. Farhan thinks Rourke will be a starter in this league. Need to get Reilly contract down to about half, but restructure it with incentives. Thinks that Rourke can be what Reilly was in this league.

Patrick Johnston of the Province joined Matt and Blake. Says he knows what everyone else knows, the Canucks are in limbo. What happens tomorrow will have a lot of bearing on what happens with GMJB. Talked about the Aquilini tax case that will have to make them pay the entirety of their taxes. It’s a pretty big ruling against them. This is the way the global system is set up. Doesn’t think it’ll have an impact on the bottom line. Doesn’t think penny-pinching is affecting the bottom line, they hired a lot of people back. Talked about why they might not want to move on Travis.

The Michael Forde angle is interesting.