The two biggest decisions for new Canucks general manager Mike Gillis involve whether or not to bring back his coach and his captain.

The two decisions may be related.

Responding to a report he wouldn't be back if defense-first coach Alain Vigneault returned, captain Markus Naslund, an impending unrestricted free agent and former client of Gillis before the jump from player agent to GM, wasn't exactly backing down from his desire to play a more up-tempo, offensive style of hockey.

Asked during a sit down interview with rights-holder TV network Sportsnet, Naslund hesitated slightly when asked is he wouldn't return is Vigneault was retained.

"It's more the type of hockey that's being played," he said after the awkward pause. ...More