I remember last July, walking into work before I began writing about the Vancouver Canucks, and saying to my coworker who is also a big Canucks fan, “Did you hear the news?” With a look of disappointment, he nodded and said, “I don’t know what to do man, we’re a ship without a captain.”
A ship without a captain. That’s how many Canucks fans felt after the team announced that they had “amicably” parted ways with team President and former player Trevor Linden. I won’t get into all the rumours of backstabbing and betrayal surrounding the departure, but let’s just say, a lot of the reports surrounding Linden’s departure leaned toward it being a less than amicable one.