^^ wow.

wow Gillis is taking over

Francesco must be pretty happy with the job he's doing so far!

Or Owners don't want to hire another executive in this economy haha.

What's up with Zherdev? First Columbus trades him away and now the Rangers don't want him either. I don't watch him enough but my view of him is like that of Hemsky; skilled but it looks like he's not trying at times.

I know demitra isn't going anywhere but I have to say I'd much rather have Zherdev at $4m than 34yr old pavol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj68NXch1tk

Lol, the crowd is like "who the fuck is that".

Sounds like a cocky SOB...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Zherdev

Don't know if you would want someone like that on your team. Looks like he's salary hungry and only wants money. Besides, Gillis is not willing to sign someone with ZERO work ethic and someone who takes a lot of shifts off in a hockey game.

Awesomeappy he resigned I'm a big fan of hansens work ethic

CANUCKS 'PHILOSOPHICALLY' CLOSE TO DEAL WITH LUONGO

With the new title of president added to his portfolio, Canucks general manager Mike Gillis says he's closer to locking up his franchise player to a multi-year contract.

Gillis spoke to Vancouver's Team 1040 radio station about his new role after Chris Zimmerman resigned from the position and revealed that the Canucks are close to an extension agreement with Roberto Luongo - an deal that that should be completed by training camp.

"I think philosophically we're very close and I think to get top players signed it usually does take a longer period of time," Gillis told the station on Tuesday. "We've had a lot of stuff happen in the meantime. We were moving really well and then we had the draft and free-agency and some other distractions occurred. But we feel really confident that we're all on the same page and it's only a matter of everyone getting focussed on the final part of it to get it done. We intend to (get it done before the season). We hope to. I know Laurence (Gilman) has had some discussions with Roberto's agent as early as yesterday. We're getting there and we're confident that we'll get something done."

Luongo, 30 is entering the final year of a four-year, $27 million contract. He is coming off a 2008-09 campaign where he posted a 33-13-7 record with nine shutouts and a 2.34 goals-against average.

Reports earlier this summer speculated that Luongo and his agent, Gilles Lupien, are asking for a long-term deal that would be at least five years in length worth a minimum of $8 million per season.

Luongo will earn $7.5 million next season, with the Canucks taking a cap hit of $6.75 million in the final year of his current deal.

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=286840

Hopefully Gillis ties down Lu for another 5 years.

Francesco is raking in profits year after year. Who needs a marketing department when you're the only game in town after October? I hear there's still a wait list just to have the privilege of buying season's tickets.

The Grizzlies did a poor job of marketing. The Canucks don't need to do anything - the puck bunnies and the yuppies are still coming in droves. As long as Gillis puts a product on the ice that can make the playoffs each year, the money comes in.

by the numbers zimmerman actually did a decent job, as they said on the radio it's very easy to take a horrible marketing campaign/team and turn it into a decent model

but to maintain and increase profits of an already profitable business is the hard part, and zimmerman actually did a decent job

Lets face it, the ownership wanted Gillis in charge of the entire team and they got there wish.

Can't really say I'm disappointed by the move.

He has shown he knows exactly what needs to be done. His transition from agent to GM has been awesome.

So tons of NHL teams have redesigned their website and as of today so have the canucks. Not bad.

www.canucks.com

all the new website looks the same..lame

Yeah. In fact, he is making so much money, he pays for the salaries of the opposing teams superstars.

It's expected. Most of the sites did look the same already in the past.
Probably made by the same team of web designers that were instructed to work with the same template.

Canucks made 19 Million last year, i believe. in profit.

They rank quite high in terms of making money for a team. But like someone said about, they are they only game post-Oct. We're all in a hockey crazy town but for our ticket prices, sometimes I think we live in NY watching the Yankees or TO watching the buds.

Frankly i rather pay to watch the yankees in terms of on field product for bang for buck. You know they will challenge for the championship each and every year.

I say this....and i'm part of the hockey crazy fans. LOL

If anyone wants the pre sale code for the NBA pre-season game its : NASH

tickets ranging from $13-339.

Damn sold out.

Thanks though.

anyone got info on the Moose playing in Abbotsford?

Doesn't appear to be a regular season schedule available yet.

the email I got says the 'pre-sale' starts tomorrow so it's not sold out yet right? :confused: