It’s a framing device of Jim Rutherford’s own making: two years ago he said before the season that if everything went right, his Vancouver Canucks would be a playoff team. Article content

That was 2023-24, when just about everything did go right and his team won the division and played a pair of pretty thrilling playoff rounds. Article content Article content

Last year was the opposite. Much went wrong and the team was mediocre .

So what of this 2025-26 edition?

For almost four years now, Rutherford, the Canucks’ president of hockey operations, has liked a lot about his team, but there’s clearly one thing that worries him: centre depth.

“We talked at the end of the season about getting a little more depth at centre and that I know that Patrik (Allvin) was on the phone almos

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