Bruce, there it isn't?

The Vancouver Canucks aren't currently willing to commit to head coach Bruce Boudreau beyond next season, president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford said Tuesday.

"We would be willing to have him back under the contract that he agreed to when he came here," Rutherford told reporters during his year-end availability. "And that's certainly not to say at the end of next year we wouldn't want him back."

Rutherford added that there's a possibility the organization would be ready to talk about an extension for Boudreau partway through next season.

"I just feel that, as good a job as he's done, it wasn't a full season," Rutherford said. "I feel that giving him a chance to take the team from training camp all the way through next season – I guess we could get to a point where, partway through the season, we may decide to talk about that."