gradin123 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Gillis getting the executive of the year last season was the biggest joke I have ever seen. Lets recap Gillis's major contributions so far. Good -Trading for Ehrhoff. -Signing of Hamhuis. -Trading for Higgins and Lapierre -Re-Signing of Burrows at a discount. -Signing of Tanev Negative -Re-Signing of Luongo to longterm contract after his first playoff meltdown against Chicago -Trading Of Michael Grabner (and hence commitment to Mason Raymond) and a first round Pick(Howden) for Ballard and his bad contract -Trading for David Booth and his bad contract -Trading Cody Hodgson/Sulzer for Zack Kassian/Grags. -Signing of Marco Sturm -Not attempting to re-sign Willie Mitchell who you almost certainly would have re-signed here at a discount if the Canucks showed any interest in him. -not one of his draft picks is playing in the NHL besides Cody Hodgson. -signing of Mats Sundin -trading a 2nd round pick for Steve Bernier -trading a 3rd round pick for Andrew Alberts Now Just the Facts Lets see the part of this years Final Team Gillis inherited Forwards. D,Sedin, H.Sedin, R.Kesler,A.Burrows, M.Raymond,J.Hansen. Dmen Bieksa, Edler,Salo Goalies Luongo and Schneider We have our top 6 regular season scorers on this list (Sedins,Kesler,Burrows,Edler and Bieksa) as well as our two very good goalies. These players accounted for 148 of our 249 Goals this season and 7 of our 8 Playoff Goals. Lets see the part of this years team Gillis actually created Forwards Booth,Pahlsson,Lapierre,Higgins,Malholtra,Weise,Kassian,Ebbett,Volpatti and Bitz Dmen Gragnani,Rome,Alberts,Ballard,Hamhuis and Tanev. Goalies None These players combined for a total of 1 Goal in the playoffs and 76 of our 249 Goals in the Regular Season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Man Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Anyone else hate it when people spell Lapierre as LaPierre? Just grinds my gears... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazmanian Devil Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Thank you, Captain Hindsight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Grabner as much as I liked him would be invisible in the playoffs. He's softer than butter that's been sitting in the sun. MItchell wasn't signed because he had concussion issues. Can't argue with much else you posted. Good points. Good post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Ed Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I was off the gillis train back at the deadline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etsen3 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 -Grabner has not been nearly as good this year. -Booth, while he has been streaky, is still better than Sturm and Samuelsson. -signing Sturm was a bad move, but we got Booth out of it (see above). -3rd round pick for Alberts isn't necessarily bad -you forgot to mention the trade for Pahlsson -Mats Sundin was hugely overpaid, but did actually help our team. We probably wouldn't have done anything else with the money anyways. He has also signed many key players to discounted contracts. I don't blame Gillis at all for this situation. He built a good team. It's players and coaching staff who didn't do their jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canucksbiggestfan Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 He created a team that took us to the SCF, what else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUCKS4CUP 28 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 -Re-Signing of Luongo to longterm contract after his first playoff meltdown against Chicago -Trading Cody Hodgson/Sulzer for Zack Kassian/Grags -Not attempting to re-sign Willie Mitchell who you almost certainly would have re-signed here at a discount if the Canucks should any interest in him. -not one of his draft picks is playing in the NHL besides Cody Hodgson. -signing of Mats Sundin Those are your "negatives" that I disagree with. - Luongo has shown time and time again that he's a winner - I think it's pretty obvious Hodgson asked for a trade, and Hodgson was NOT our franchise. - It's actually quite embarrassing to think Mitchell was once our #1 d-man. Kinda like how Edler is our #1 d-man now. - That's more of our scouts fault than Gillis'. - Sundin is what turned Burrows, Kesler, and the Sedins into the regular season champs that they are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gourami12 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Gillis getting the executive of the year last season was the biggest joke I have ever seen. Lets recap Gillis's major contributuons so far. Good -Trading for Ehrhoff. -Signing of Hamhuis. -Trading for Higgins and LaPierre -Re-Signing of Burrows at a discount. -Signing of Tanev Negative -Re-Signing of Luongo to longterm contract after his first playoff meltdown against Chicago -Trading Of Michael Grabner (and hence commitment to Mason Raymond) and a first round Pick(Howden) for a Ballard and his bad contract -Trading for David Booth and his bad contract -Trading Cody Hodgson/Sulzer for Zack Kassian/Grags. -Signing of Marco Sturm -Not attempting to re-sign Willie Mitchell who you almost certainly would have re-signed here at a discount if the Canucks should any interest in him. -not one of his draft picks is playing in the NHL besides Cody Hodgson. -signing of Mats Sundin -trading a 2nd round pick for Steve Bernier -trading a 3rd round pick for Andrew Alberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHawkSniper Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Why does the signing of Marco Sturm matter? he was gone before he hit the golf course. And would you really re-sign Mitchell after having a severe concussion to at least 2 years ( since MG tried to sign him for 1 year) with the risk that one more hit to the head could be the end for him? "-not one of his draft picks is playing in the NHL besides Cody Hodgson." How does this measure the amount of success/failure Gillis is as a GM? was he around for 10 years? This is one of the most biassed OP I have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van_ws Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I am no longer a Gillis supporter and want him run out of town. Get the **** out of here. Can't wait to see his ass get canned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzam Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 -Grabner has not been nearly as good this year. -Booth, while he has been streaky, is still better than Sturm and Samuelsson. -signing Sturm was a bad move, but we got Booth out of it (see above). -3rd round pick for Alberts isn't necessarily bad -you forgot to mention the trade for Pahlsson -Mats Sundin was hugely overpaid, but did actually help our team. We probably wouldn't have done anything else with the money anyways. He has also signed many key players to discounted contracts. I don't blame Gillis at all for this situation. He built a good team. It's players and coaching staff who didn't do their jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Man Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Previous GMs created a team that took us to the SCF, what else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Creating a power house team, a team so good everyone hates.... 1 win away from a Stanley cup in his 3rd season, back to back Presidents trophy, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spliced Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Grabner was so fun to watch too. Think of what they could have got for Grabs had they waited until he scored 30 and then traded him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckNORRIS4Cup Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Not signing Raffi Torres! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 if that's the biggest joke you have ever seen you haven't seen much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Gillis getting the executive of the year last season was the biggest joke I have ever seen. Lets recap Gillis's major contributuons so far. Good -Trading for Ehrhoff. -Signing of Hamhuis. -Trading for Higgins and LaPierre -Re-Signing of Burrows at a discount. -Signing of Tanev Negative -Re-Signing of Luongo to longterm contract after his first playoff meltdown against Chicago -Trading Of Michael Grabner (and hence commitment to Mason Raymond) and a first round Pick(Howden) for a Ballard and his bad contract -Trading for David Booth and his bad contract -Trading Cody Hodgson/Sulzer for Zack Kassian/Grags. -Signing of Marco Sturm -Not attempting to re-sign Willie Mitchell who you almost certainly would have re-signed here at a discount if the Canucks should any interest in him. -not one of his draft picks is playing in the NHL besides Cody Hodgson. -signing of Mats Sundin -trading a 2nd round pick for Steve Bernier -trading a 3rd round pick for Andrew Alberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonicator Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Amazing how some of you people have such short memories. This team is underachieving. It has been like that the latter part of the season. The scoring has gone down and our goalies have stepped up in most nights. We didn't change the core. It's the same one as last year. What did you expect after last year SCF? A major overhaul? Give me a break. The one thing that needs a change is the personnel behind the bench. AV has not adapted this team to physical teams such as Boston and LA. Even against Chicago, they struggled a couple years before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easton76 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I stopped reading once you said trading for Booth was bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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