It feels like Adam Foote is putting his stamp on these Vancouver Canucks . Just don’t expect Foote to bite on that suggestion. Article content

“Critics and peers decide that. It’s not how I think,” said Foote, who officially begins his first season as an NHL head coach when he leads the Canucks up against the Calgary Flames Thursday in the home opener at Rogers Arena . Article content Article content

“I really just try to stay now, stay present. There are so many different variables. You can just do the work at that moment.”

At that moment in May when the Canucks announced that they were promoting Foote from assistant coach to bench boss — replacing Rick Tocchet , who had announced he wasn’t returning to the club two weeks earlier and later signed on to be coach of the

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