Sedins want Vancouver Canucks fans to trust the process

The Vancouver Canucks were not expected to be a playoff contender this season. But no one really expected them to be THIS bad. And that’s something that the organization’s brass felt needed to be addressed.

In their presser, Henrik and Daniel Sedin, the co-faces of the Canucks’ rebuild, faced the music as fans and the media demanded answers for the awful on-ice product.

As Co-Presidents, the Sedins understand that there’s a shared burden in elevating the team that made them NHL superstars. But they also had to draw a hard line in the sand.

"We want to be transparent where we are, but we also want people to understand that we're not sitting back and accepting where things stand."

With the season about a quarter of the way in, the comments seem like nothing more than rhetoric at this point. The team hasn’t done anything significant to push the rebuild forward.

But judging from the comments, those changes won’t happen for the sake of it.

“It’s not about making wholesale changes or losing sight of what we’re trying to build. It’s about continuing to get better at the details, trusting the process, and making sure we’re taking steps forward.”

All of that sounds nice. But the line “trusting the process” is something that should make Canucks fans worry just a tad. That’s a line that governments typically use to assuage constituents.

And until the Canucks actually reveal what’s under the hood of that process, it will be really hard to gauge what exactly they’re trying to do.

Canucks fans shouldn’t expect many changes

Another interesting line from the Sedins involves the coaching. First-year coach Manny Malhotra seems safe in his job for now.

“We have confidence in the coaching staff, we have confidence in players, and we believe what we’re doing.”