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It seemed all was well in the Vancouver Canucks’ front office after the Trevor Linden fallout, which, depending on who you ask was amicable (it wasn’t).

But of course when one domino falls, others seem to crumble around it.

So it is that Jeff Stipec, chief operating officer of the Canucks, and TC Carling executive vice president of hockey administration and arena operations are on their way out of the organization. Stipec will reportedly remain on until December when Trent Carroll, currently executive vice president of revenue, will replace him. It seems there won’t be a replacement for Carling.

Stipec was hired by the Canucks in 2014 (and promoted to his current role in 2016) and was responsible for transitioning the franchise from services provider Aramark to moving everything in-house.

He was also heavily involved in improving the in-game experience for Canucks fans, as he had been travelling to cities with new arenas or with experience putting on a show like Detroit and Nashville, and observing what they were doing differently.

For what it’s worth, Carling had a long relationship with Linden, going back to when the former was in media relations during the latter’s playing career.

Inspired by a book called The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip and Dan Heath, Stipec and Carling challenged their staff to create 40,000 moments for customers over the course of this year. It seemed to be catching on with employees.

In short, though the Canucks aren’t releasing any statements about the moves, this doesn’t seem like it was the result of resignations from Stipec and Carling.

While we can’t confirm that, there was zero indication of a pending resignation on a walk through the arena with Stipec last month.

We can, however, confirm this.

“It’s about 80 percent” said Stipec last month when asked how many employees in the arena he knew by name. But over the course of an hour, we didn’t walk by anyone he didn’t greet by name.

Whatever they do next (and some are already talking Seattle’s expansion team), Stipec and Carling will likely remain tight-lipped about their departure from the Canucks organization.

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