Vancouver Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis not talking about Lockout -NHL Update
While the National Hockey League (NHL) is currently abuzz about the whole lockout situation and players along with owners, coming out to let the world know how they feel about it, Vancouver Canucks general manager, Mike Gillis, on the other hand is staying
very quite on it all.
General Managers are siding with the franchise owners for obvious reasons, while players are terming the owners of the hockey teams to be untrustworthy and selfish in the sort of proposals they have made to the labour union so far. Seeing how the situation
is prevailing at the moment, it is very hard to determine when the lockout will come to an end and some even term to be so harsh that a regular season would not be enough to cover it.
“Last time I could talk about it but not do anything and now really there’s nothing much to say,” Gillis says, according to theprovince.com. “I didn’t really say anything last time either.
“We’re working on our cap issues right now carefully calculating a number of different scenarios that may occur after this is over and we’re trying to be as ready as we possibly can be when play starts again,” he added further.
Chris Tanev is the man that is representing Vancouver in Chicago during the rookie camps, which shows that Mike Gillis is more focused on improving the club as much as he can during this free time instead of being involved in the whole lockout negotiating
process.
“I’m going to go to Chicago in early October to watch most of their training camp down there and keep as good a tab on our young players as we can,” Gillis stated.
GM Gillis was not as active last time around when the NHL saw their third lockout in history of the sport in North America and it is very confusing to see a GM of one of the biggest clubs in the league to stay as quite as he is.
Vancouver is surprisingly one of the only teams in the NHL that has not had much players shifting to the European leagues in order to continue playing, but could see that soon as tensions continue to rise.
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