There’s probably nothing worse in sports than being the general manager to trade a superstar. In hockey, in particular, where GMs typically covet average NHL players like Gollum and the One Ring, it must be particularly difficult to finally acknowledge defeat and trade a superstar. In Vancouver, it must be torture — especially when you consider their fans have watched the last two genuinely great Canucks teams make the Stanley Cup Finals and lose in seven games to Original Six franchises. Vancouver has a president of hockey operations in Jim Rutherford who has been clear that he’s not interested in a tear-it-all-down rebuild. After being forced into trading forward J.T. Miller last season, Rutherford immediately used the draft-pick asset acquired in that trade to bring in defenseman Marcus Pettersson. Vancouver couldn’t afford to engage in a rebuild that chased star players out of the organization following years of prior wheel-spinning. Except, right now, the Canucks don’t feel anywhere close to being eRead More