Think of it: The Vancouver Whitecaps started the year making plain that they needed a new owner. Then they made it clear they needed a new stadium. They also didn’t even have a coach.

Generally, those are not circumstances that lend themselves to any kind of organizational success.

And yet here stand your Caps, one win from the summit.

It is an absolutely remarkable story. Even Whitecaps CEO Axel Schuster admits this. When the team informed the public that ownership was looking to move on, to hand the keys over to a new investment group last December, the response was understandably flat. Vancouver has seen this story before — indeed, they were flat-out lied to by Michael Heisley and his intentions for the Grizzlies.

For Schuster, though, he just had to come to work every day with a po

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