Crawford: Canucks' situation 'very fixable'

The Vancouver Province suggests former Canucks coach Marc Crawford may be a dark horse candidate in the team’s search for a new bench boss, although the presumed front-runners are John Stevens and Willie Desjardins.

Crawford, on coaching in Switzerland the past two years:

“You’re so much more involved in the day-to-day coaching and I thought it really improved me.”

Also, “I really rediscovered my coaching legs in terms of how we practice and how I taught,” Crawford said. “That was the best thing that ever could have happened to me. If I ever get the chance to coach (again in the NHL), I’m going to implement a lot of those things.”

Crawford has watched a lot of Canucks games and feels the situation is “very fixable.”

“They had a perfect storm of mishaps,” Crawford said. “The top end is still quite good and that defence is a very good defence.

“You’re looking at Bieksa, Hamuis and Edler who had a poor, poor year. There’s Tanev, who by all reports has really come on by leaps and bounds, and Garrison.

“That’s great.

“On the forwards you start with the Sedins, and the change in the way they played to me was really ... I don’t want to dump on anyone, but you can’t change that club.”

Source: Jason Botchford, Vancouver Province