The Vancouver Canucks season has not gone well, to say the least. How much of it can be placed at the feet of first-year head coach Adam Foote? That is the big question facing Canucks management as the season winds down in the coming week.

How disastrous has the Canucks' season been? They won't even reach double-digits in wins at home. They are 8-27-5 at Rogers Arena, with just one game to play there.

Overall, at 22-47-8 for 52 points, they're dead last in the entire NHL—by nearly 20 points!—in what will turn out to be the worst Canucks season since their second or third year of existence, in the early 1970s.

Quinn Hughes is gone. So are 100-point seasons from Elias Pettersson, it seems. Will the head coach be next?

According to Thomas Drance in The Athletic, Foote is on loose... footing. Even more so than GM Patrik Allvin.

Foote, in particular, is the one to monitor with greater urgency than Allvin. The first-year bench boss is still thought of as a smart coach internally, but it’s clear that his team has been discombobulated and disorganized too frequently this season.
The team’s defensive habits, the lack of development from young players, the lack of flexibility in tailoring a system to the strengths and weakness of the lineup and the inconsistency with which the Canucks have brought a focused effort this season is a real cause for internal concern.
The sense I’ve got in asking around with team and league sources is that the club is weighing Foote’s future deliberately as the season winds down.

At the same time, Drance notes that Canucks management is also wary of yet more coaching turnover. Four different men have been behind the Vancouver bench over the last five seasons. From the final year of Travis Green's reign, to Bruce Boudreau's one-plus year, to Rick Tocchet's 2+ seasons, to Foote this year.

Apparently, no declarations have been made yet on Foote's future, but that could come even before any final decision is made at the GM level.