Arturs Silovs throws his former team under the bus.

Traditionally bitter rivals, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers have recently come together on some unexpected common ground, a unified distaste for how the Vancouver Canucks run their hockey business.

Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs is coming off of as good a debut as you could expect from a goaltender with a perfect game in his first ever appearance with the Penguins, shutting out the New York Rangers to help his team earn a 3-0 victory over their Metropolitan Division rivals. It was following that game that Silovs was asked what made him feel so comfortable with the Penguins, with Silovs answer reading very much like a shot at his former team the aforementioned Vancouver Canucks.

"It's been great so far," said Silovs. "Practice rink, we didn't have it back in Vancouver. Yeah we don't have it, we were skating at a university. Here its your own locker, you don't have to move your things all the time, you can skate and do your stuff like improve. I think it's a huge bonus for the team."

You can hear Silovs in his own words just below:

You can tell from the way Silovs spoke that he wasn't deliberately taking a shot at the Canucks but instead expressing his gratitude for having the appropriate facilities that an NHL team should have, but that won't take any of the sting off his comments for fans in Vancouver. This is especially true when you consider the fact that it wasn't very long ago that former Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet made similar remarks of his own.

"I walked around that practice facility... there's so many tools to work with," said Rick Tocchet after leaving the Canucks organization and signing with the Philadelphia Flyers. "To practice we have 3 sheets of ice, as a coach you're like oh my god these are the things you want as a coach. Those are attractive things to help me be an even better coach. I can't speak for the past, all I know is what I see now and it excites me."

Tocchet had previously been critical of the lack of a dedicated practice facility during his tenure as head coach of the Canucks.

"I can't be disappointed players were not here in mid-August because they probably had a facility or something where they were,” said Tocchet as per Sportsnet. "We're working on that as an organization. We want players to stay and train under our umbrella, under our roof. The best teams do that.

"There's a lot of things that we just don't have, so I can't really blame the players."

The comments from Silovs may have seemed harsh towards his former team but given the added context it seems unfair to blame the 24 year old goaltender for expressing his thoughts.

One thing is certain, none of these comments paint the Canucks or their ownership in a positive light.