PlaceFormer Vancouver Canucks owner Arthur Griffiths is heading up a group that has put in a formal bid to buy the Vancouver Whitecaps , according to a report from Sportsnet’s Dan Murphy on social media Friday. Whitecaps CEO Axel Schuster has said that the team is $40 million below the league average in terms of revenue. It’s been reported that current Whitecaps majority owner Greg Kerfoot would stay on with a new group. On CHEK’s Donnie and Dhali – The Team in April, Griffiths cited comparisons between the Whitecaps and the Canucks, who from the city-run Pacific Coliseum to Rogers Arena. “The Vancouver Whitecaps, and I might as well say the B.C.