Canucks owner dubbed ‘The Worst Person in the Sports World’
Posted April 15, 2014 6:53 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The Canucks’ season came to its merciful end on Sunday night, but even ESPN has taken notice of the mess in Vancouver.
Owner Francesco Aquilini was dubbed ‘The Worst Person in the Sports World’ by host Keith Olbermann.
Aquilini has gone after a pair of Vancouver newspaper writers, legally, for pinning the hiring of Head Coach John Tortorella on him, and not former GM Mike Gillis.
Olbermann took notice and held nothing back in his daily talk show this week.
“You own the team; owning the team means you own the decision. You [hiring] him because the general manager says ‘This is my choice’ is the same as if you personally went down to skid row, found Tortorella, touched him on the shoulders and said ‘This is my choice,'” he said.
