Call it whatever you want, Jim Rutherford says, but what he knows is clear: the Vancouver Canucks need to get younger.

“We have to make this team younger. We have to get this team going in a different direction from where we’ve been,” the Canucks’ veteran president of hockey operations told Postmedia on Tuesday morning, a day after general manager Patrik Allvin let the rest of the league know that the pending unrestricted free agents on the Canucks’ books are all available in a trade: in other words Kiefer Sherwood, Teddy Blueger, Evander Kane and Derek Forbort.

Rutherford has long been known to get before other teams by making trade-deadline-style trades months earlier, adding veterans he believes will shore up the roster for a playoff run, so this is, in essence, him looking to flip th

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