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Before you’ve even finished the question, the answer has already been spat at you:

“Mark Messier.”

The man was supposed to lead the Canucks to glory when he was signed in 1997. Instead, he split the room and the Canucks spent three seasons in the wilderness.

That decline was probably inevitable, no matter what Messier did. But the reality remains that he came in, the team was terrible off the hop, the beloved Pat Quinn got canned by ownership, Messier pushed for the hiring of Mike Keenan who ended up trading most of the franchise’s beloved 1994 Stanley Cup finalist core.

You know the story. Keenan did get Todd Bertuzzi and Bryan McCabe, who wa

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