Former 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. There was interest from a group out of Las Vegas for a time, but talk of that died down. It's been reported that current Whitecaps majority owner Greg Kerfoot would stay on with a new group. Whitecaps CEO Axel Schuster has said that the team is $40 million below the league average in terms of revenue. "The Vancouver Whitecaps, and I might as well say the B.C.