“Listen, it’s all about the crest. As long as I coach, it’s all about the crest. It’s not about what’s on the back.

You’re going to have arguments, you’re going to have fights. I’ve been fortunate to be [in] the Stanley Cup Final three times, two as a coach, one as a player. There’s always been something that has galvanized a team. Whether people are bickering or complaining, it happens all the time.

It’s my job to make sure that guys have a voice and you move on from certain stuff. But you also need to be mature, too. You don’t have to play PlayStation together or go to dinner together, but if it’s your turn to go to the net, go to the net. It’s really what it comes down to.”

“I think that it’s been a lot of learning for everybody in here. Obviously, not to beat around the bush, everybody knows what the reports are out there, but I think that everyone expects a lot from each other.

There are times I get upset with Millsy. There are times I get upset with Petey. There are times I get upset with [Filip] Hronek. That doesn’t mean I don’t love those guys and vice versa. I’m going to make some bad plays, they’re going to make a play where I wish they saw me here or saw me there, but over the course of playing together for six years, I think those things are normal. They’re going to happen.

As far as my leadership, I think continuing to keep everyone on the yellow brick road and what our ultimate goal is, which is short term, having a good game tonight and long-term, being a successful team and making it to the playoffs.”

“I thought both Hughes and Tocchet were really good talking about this particular situation. But I think it’s not new to people who follow the Canucks that [Miller] and Pettersson have a unique relationship, to say the least.

Three things have kind of brought it again into the forefront right now. Number one, the Canucks had thought this was solved last year. The team had a great year, the two players had a great year, and they thought they had moved past this. Obviously, that wasn’t the case.

Number two, it’s bled into the way they’ve played on the ice, and that can’t happen. You can’t have it affect the way the team and the players are playing. And number three, and this is probably the most important one, it has started to take its toll on the other people in the organization. The players, the coaching staff, and the hockey operations department.

Now, I think, in a perfect world, and it’s clear just talking around the league, that in a perfect world, the Canucks’ number one choice by far, is that Petters and Miller remain long-term players in the organization.

They’re both excellent players, and the Canucks have a better chance to win with them, and I think that is their goal. And they’ve told them, nobody expects you to play Playstation together, as Rick Tocchet said, but they do expect you to have a professional working relationship, and they have to have that.

If yes, they can do it, then we don’t have a single problem here. If no, I don’t think there’s a timeline or anything like that, like they haven’t started the clock, but eventually, I think everybody realized, something is going to have to give.”