Rick Tocchet's future is up in the air in Vancouver, and now a former Head Coach has fired a shot at the tactics they're trying to use to keep him. The Vancouver Canucks are likely to miss out on the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season, and with their future talent up in the air, their <a href='https://www.hockeylatest.com/nhl/news/elliotte-friedman-reveals-canucks-public-displeasure-with-the-flyers-surrounding-rick-tocchet' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Head Coach situation beyond 2024/25 has become rocky.</a> It's clear that Rick Tocchet is the coach that the Vancouver Canucks want, with many reports revealing that the team will need to give him a significant pay increase to remain behind the bench in Vancouver, with teams like the Philadelphia Flyers already showing interest in him. As a result of the interest, the Canucks made their interest and their negotiations with the Head Coach public, and now, former coach Bruce Boudreau has called out the organization for the tactic that they used directly against him when he worked there. I can see how the Vancouver management works there. What they'll do is-they did the same thing to me when they wanted me to sign my deal-they put it public and then they say 'Hey, if you don't do this, then we're gonna do this.' So the M.O. on that, as soon as I heard about the Rick Tocchet situation, I said 'I know exactly what Jim Rutherford is doing here', and it's almost like bullying him into signing the deal. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/taj1944/status/1908220611673153958'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> While it's not exactly an underhanded tactic, it's not a great one from Vancouver, as they are seemingly trying to pressure the coach into taking a deal by making the entire process public, with their tactics clearly not changing. However, it's likely Tocchet with all the leverage here, as a team like Philadelphia would absolutely love to make him one of the highest paid coaches in the NHL, and unless the Canucks are willing to pay up, there's a very good chance he leaves in the summer.