Sportsnet: Frank Seravalli when requested if the Philadelphia Flyers vacant head teaching place performed an element in Rick Tocchet leaving the Vancouver Canucks, or was it concerning the dysfunction with Canucks and what else may be on the market.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Jason Halford: “If the Flyers job hadn’t turn out to be out there, do you assume Tocchet may need made a special, completely different choice?”
Seravalli: “I don’t assume that this has even 1% to do with the Philadelphia Flyers or another opening, to be trustworthy. I discussed to you guys earlier than that whenever you arrive on the pure breaking level like this, with a contract and it’s important to resolve somehow to remain or go, it gives you an finish level, some extent of inflection to mirror on the place you’ve been and the place you’re heading.
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And this wasn’t, in the long run, about {dollars}. It wasn’t about emblem or geography or, like quite a lot of these issues may be 5% components, however that is purely about Rick Tocchet’s imaginative and prescient for the place that is heading. And I feel a possibility to do it the best manner and win.
And I feel, to be trustworthy, the dysfunction that exists within the Vancouver Canucks group from prime to backside, it repels so much. And you’ve got some extremely loyal individuals, Rick Tocchet, Brock Boeser, undergo the record. J.T. Miller bled for that workforce. They’re on, they’re on their manner elsewhere. And the large cause for that’s, is correct from the very prime, and the way that filters by way of everybody else.
This is without doubt one of the most dysfunctional organizations within the league. It’s one of the crucial dysfunctional organizations in professional sports activities. That chaos wears on individuals, truth. And with that, when you’ve got a possibility to take a peek and see what else is on the market, and see that there are seven openings proper now. Seven different openings, and the potential for possibly three extra, two or three extra, relying on how issues shake out right here within the first spherical.
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I feel as an alternative of this being concerning the Flyers, this was about, ‘am I moderately assured that I’ll be capable of get a job elsewhere?’ And I feel the reply for Rick Tocchet was sure. And with that, there was at all times the fallback possibility of, if it doesn’t work out, I can at all times spend a yr at TNT once more, attempting to determine what’s subsequent and discover the best, greatest match for me.”
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