If the main task at hand for the Vancouver Canucks is to do everything you can to keep Quinn Hughes happy, to keep the franchise as his preferred option in his future, then surely it stands to reason that management should do everything it can to keep the current coach — one he likes and connects well with — in the fold.

The Canucks won't exercise their option for head coach Rick Tocchet, but the franchise has offered him a new, more lucrative contract, president Jim Rutherford said.

Vancouver Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet officially has a decision to make this offseason. On Monday, president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford announced that Vancouver will not exercise the club option on Tocchet's contract for next season.