VANCOUVER - Player agent Mike Gillis is expected to be announced Wednesday as the new general manager of the Vancouver Canucks.
Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini would neither confirm nor deny the hiring.
"I don't have any comment," Aquilini said late this afternoon.
Gillis, 49, is a former NHL player with the Boston Bruins and former Colorado Rockies. He has never worked in management but has represented players since 1991.
His first client was former Canuck Geoff Courtnall and he currently represents Canuck captain Markus Naslund. He also represented Pavel Bure.
"I think he'd be phenomenal," Courtnall said today. "He's a really smart guy."
Gillis is a native of Sudbury, Ont., He has two children and moved to Vancouver last summer to accommodate his daughter's field hockey career.
Aquilini fired Dave Nonis on April 14 after the Canucks missed the playoffs for the second time in three years. Former Dallas Stars GM Doug Armstrong and ex-player agent Brian Lawton were also in the running.
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We'll have to see what moves he makes. But, really, any jackass can very easily make this team a Cup contender.
Thus, I'll have to say I think this is a pathetic move. This organization needs some big names other than Luongo. Fair enough, maybe this ass will bring in someone big, but he's a player agent.
The agent is one of those made up jobs that really has absolutely nothing to do with sports and has contributed immensely to the amount of movement a player makes in a career. So it's more like the Seinfeld joke (we cheer shirts, not players) because of these idiots. He's in a made up bullshit industry ; kind of like actors.
Although I think it's nostalgic BS that makes M Brodeur a Vezina candidate yet again, I have more respect for him than any other player in the league. He's shunned agents and negotiated his own contracts for years. Agents are like real estate agents, sharks swimming in chummed waters. How the hell do you respond so fast by the way?
I keep coming back to your page to watch the Tim Meadows thing below.
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