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Canucks Live: Friday night lights in Carolina, how healthy is Hughes and Rutherford's stuck in…

Rutherford: Yeah, like that. One of the things I’ve been open about is, you know, we’re kind of caught in between here right now. I believe our organization has done a good job in building up the pipeline of younger players. Do we want to give those up now or do we want to keep building? (Until) we traded J.T … we were on the right track to continuing to build towards being a contender on a more regular basis. And then when J.T. got traded, we were set back. Regardless of what deal we made, you’re not going to replace him. And so then we became a team in transition again. And we’re still a team in transition. If you look at our lineup now, we’ve got sometimes six, seven first-year players in our lineup, and that’s hard. But the positive side of that is these guys are developing. So there’s somewhat of a silver lining in a disappointing first quarter of the season.

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