Former Canuck Jannik Hansen believes that Vancouver waited too long to complete an official rebuild, and for that reason, they are consistently mediocre. Fans of the Vancouver Canucks have always called for a full rebuild, but this is something the organization has never truly done. Now, a former player believes that time is finally here, but that it should have happened a long time ago. Jannik Hansen joined Sportsnet 650's Canucks Central on Friday, with hosts Dan Riccio and Satiar Shah identifying how the majority of fans seem to be openly on board with a rebuild these days. <a href='https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/former-canucks-player-believes-rebuild' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Hansen agreed wholeheartedly</a>, using Pacific Division rivals like the Ducks and Oilers, who suffered through a lot of losing prior to accumulating elite young talent. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/Sportsnet650/status/1989477477094445304'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> <h3>What the Canucks still lack, according to Jannik Hansen</h3> Hansen contended that while the Canucks have quality pieces, the roster still lacks the depth to contend. You can't go into a season and say, you know what, Vancouver Canucks, that's the team to beat this year, Hansen said. The way the team is constructed, the way you're doing things, always subtracting and adding. Like, they're just not getting the players you need in the quantities you need. He mentioned just how fortunate the team was when drafting three franchise cornerstones in Thatcher Demko (2014), Elias Pettersson (2017), and Quinn Hughes (2018), yet even that has not been enough. Don't get me wrong. Quinn Hughes, [Thatcher] Demko, when he's healthy, [Elias Pettersson] of three years ago. Those are the type of players you can see yourself winning with. But, you need four more. And you don't have the draft capital to get these players unless you get extremely lucky and you find somebody in the sixth round or in the fourth round that all of a sudden is a top-five player. And we know how hard these players are to find. The recurring injuries to Demko and the sudden dip in production from Pettersson have weakened the already thin margin for success that the Canucks had. As Hansen himself put it, this team would still need significantly more help to become a real contender. The former winger also pointed out that <a href='https://www.hockeylatest.com/nhl-team/vancouver-canucks/new-report-indicates-the-vancouver-canucks-could-be-on-the-verge-of-a-full-rebuild' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>this isn't a new conversation</a>. Many different Canucks management groups have claimed they were close, only to have the team fail repeatedly. It's the third management team that's in place now that's singing the same song. 'We're going to retool. We're right there. We're almost there.' Well, we've seen over the past decade that it's not really almost there. This rebuild should have been done four years ago. And then you should have been coming out of it now, where he's in his prime and not been fiddling around in the middle of the league for the last five years. <h3>Why the Canucks need to go into a full-fledged rebuild</h3> Since trading Hansen in 2017, Vancouver has made the playoffs just twice, with one of those appearances coming in the 2020 bubble. Fans, Hansen said, deserve far better. The franchise has reached the third round only three times in its history and currently sits 28th in the NHL at 8-9-2. Ownership has to be okay with there being 12,000 or 15,000 in the building instead of 18,000. And obviously, no playoff games for whether it's two, three, or four years. But again, I think it would be okay. At least there would be a path and not just status quo, which we've seen for so long, which most likely is going to play out like it has in the past. Hansen's message was simple: the cycle of staying in the middle isn't working, and meaningful change may finally be unavoidable.