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JIM BENNING


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Iain MacIntyre @imacVanSun

Still believe Benning is #Canucks' 1st choice. But Hextall, with mgmt dues paid under good GMs,would be interesting candidate.

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Benning said the #Canucks job would be an exciting opportunity but can not comment on the Vancouver job because he works for another team.

QUALIFICATIONS

Following his playing career, he served an amateur scout for the Anaheim Ducks (1993–94) and then joined the Buffalo Sabres as a scout (1994–98) and as Director of Amateur Scouting (1998–2004). In the summer of the 2006, he became the assistant GM of the Boston Bruins. His name was included on the Stanley Cup for the 1st time with the Boston Bruins in 2011. Boston Bruins also won the Presiden'ts Trophy in 2014.

DRAFT RECORD

(Complete List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Anaheim_Ducks_draft_picks)

1999 Entry Draft

Position Held: Buffalo Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting

1st Round: LW - Barrett Heisten - 20th Overall

2nd Round: F - Milan Bartovic - 35th Overall

D - Doug Janik - 55th Overall

C - Mike Zigomanis - 64th Overall

3rd Round: LW - Tim Preston - 73rd Overall

4th Round: F - Karel Mosovsky - 117th Overall

5th Round: G - Ryan Miller - 138th Overall

D - Matt King - 146th Overall

6th Round: RW - Seneque Hyacinthe Jr. - 178th Overall

7th Round: RW - Bret DeCecco - 206th Overall

8th Round: C - Brad Self - 235th Overall

9th Round: RW - Craig Brunel - 263th Overall

2000 Entry Draft

Position Held: Buffalo Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting

1st Round: F - Artem Kryukov - 15th Overall

2nd Round: D - Gerard Dicaire - 48th Overall

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: G - Ghyslain Rousseau - 111th Overall

5th Round: D - Denis Denisov - 149th Overall

6th Round: No Picks

7th Round: Vasily Bizyayev - 213th Overall

C - Paul Gaustad - 220th Overall

8th Round: RW - Sean McMorrow - 258th Overall

9th Round: C - Ryan Courtney - 277th Overall

2001 Entry Draft

Position Held: Buffalo Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting

1st Round: C - Jiri Novotny - 22nd Overall

2nd Round: C - Derek Roy - 32nd Overall

C - Chris Thorburn - 50th Overall

RW - Jason Pminville - 55th Overall

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: F - Michal Vondrka - 155th Overall

6th Round: No Picks

7th Round: No Picks

8th Round: D - Calle Aslund - 234th Overall

F - Marek Dubec - 247th Overall

9th Round: D - Ryan Jorde - 279th Overall

2002 Entry Draft

Position Held: Buffalo Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting

1st Round: D - Keith Ballard - 11th Overall

LW - Daniel Paille - 20th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: LW - Michael Tessier - 76th Overall

D - John Adams - 82nd Overall

4th Round: RW - Jacub Hulva - 108th Overall

G - Marty Magers - 121st Overall

5th Round: No Picks

6th Round: C - Maxim Schevjev - 178th Overall

7th Round: D - Radoslav Hecl - 208th Overall

8th Round: D - Dennis Wideman - 241st Overall

9th Round: D - Martin Cizek - 271st Overall

2003 Entry Draft

Position Held: Buffalo Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting

1st Round: F - Thomas Vanek - 5th Overall

2nd Round: RW - Branislav Fabry - 65th Overall

3rd Round: LW - Clarke MacArthur - 74th Overall

4th Round: D - Jan Hejda - 106th Overall

D - Denis Yezhov - 114th Overall

5th Round: D - Thomas Morrow - 150th Overall

6th Round: D - Pavel Voroshnin - 172th Overall

7th Round: D - Nathan Paetsch - 202th Overall

8th Round: G - Jeff Weber - 235th Overall

9th Round: RW - Louis Philippe Martin - 266th Overall

2004 Entry Draft

Position Held: Buffalo Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting

1st Round: RW - Drew Stafford - 13th Overall

2nd Round: RW - Michael Funk - 43rd Overall

3rd Round: D - Andrej Sekera - 72 Overall

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: G - Michal Valent - 145th Overall

6th Round: RW - Patrick Kaleta - 176th Overall

7th Round: RW - Mark Mancari - 207th Overall

8th Round: D - Mike Card - 241st Overall

9th Round: LW - Dylan Hunter - 273rd Overall

2005 Entry Draft

Position Held: Buffalo Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting

1st Round: C - Marek Zagrapan - 13th Overall

2nd Round: F - Philipp Gogulla - 48th Overall

3rd Round: D - Mard-Andre-Gragnani - 87th Overall

4th Round: D - Chris Butler - 96th Overall

5th Round: C - Nathan Gerbe - 142nd Overall

6th Round: G - Adam Dennis - 182nd Overall

D - Vyacheslav Buravchikov - 191st Overall

7th Round: D - Matt - Generous - 208th Overall

D - Andre Orpik - 227th Overall

2006 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: C - Phil Kessel - 5th Overall

2nd Round: D - Yuri Alexandrov - 37th Overall

LW - Milan Lucic - 50th Overall

3rd Round: RW - Brad Marchard - 50th Overall

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: D - Andrew Bodnarchuk - 128th Overall

6th Round: C - Levi Nelson - 158th Overall

7th Round: No Picks

2007 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: C - Zach Hamill - 8th Overall

2nd Round: D - Tommy Cross - 35th Overall

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: D - Denis Reul - 130th Overall

6th Round: D - Alain Goulet - 159th Overall

D - Radim Ostrcil - 169th Overall

7th Round: RW - Jordan Knackstedt - 189th Overall

2008 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: C - Joe Colborne - 16th Overall

2nd Round: C - Maxime Sauve - 47th Overall

3rd Round: G - Michael Hutchinson - 77th Overall

4th Round: C - Jamie Arniel - 97th Overall

5th Round: No Picks

6th Round: C - Nicolas Tremblay - 173th Overall

7th Round: C - Mark Goggin - 197th Overall

2009 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: RW - Jordan Caron - 25th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: D - Ryan Button - 86th Overall

4th Round: LW - Lane MacDermid - 112th Overall

5th Round: No Picks

6th Round: RW - Tyler Randell - 176th Overall

7th Round: C - Ben Sexton - 206th Overall

2010 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: C - Tyler Seguin - 2nd Overall

2nd Round: RW - Jared Knight - 32nd Overall

C - Ryan Spooner - 45th Overall

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: LW - Craig Cunningham - 97th Overall

5th Round: F - Justin Florek - 135th Overall

6th Round: G - Zane Gothberg - 165th Overall

7th Round: D - Maxim Chudinov - 195th Overall

D - Zach Trotman - 210th Overall

2011 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: D - Dougie Hamilton - 9th Overall

2nd Round: LW - Alexander Khokhlachev - 40th Overall

3rd Round: LW - Anthony Camara - 81st Overall

4th Round: RW - Brian Ferlin - 121st Overall

5th Round: D - Rob O'Gara - 151st Overall

6th Round: G - Lars Volden - 181st Overall

7th Round: No Picks

2012 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: G - Malcolm Subban - 24th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: D - Matt Grzelcyk - 85th Overall

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: RW - Seth Griffith - 131st Overall

C - Cody Payne - 145th Overall

6th Round: D - Matthew Benning - 175th Overall

7th Round: F - Colton Hargrove - 205th Overall

2013 Entry Draft

Position Held: Boston Bruins Assistant General Manager

1st Round: No Picks

2nd Round: D - Linus Arnesson - 60th Overall

3rd Round: LW - Peter Cehlarik - 90th Overall

4th Round: C - Ryan Fitzgeral - 120th Overall

5th Round: D - Wiley Sherman - 150th Overall

6th Round: LW - Anton Blidh - 180th Overall

7th Round: LW - Mitchell Dempsey - 210th Overall

TRADE TRANSACTIONS

2006 Season

February 2007

Boston Bruins Acquire DENNIS WIDEMAN

St. Louis Blues Acquire BRAD BOYES

February 2007

Boston Bruins Acquire AARON WARD

New York Rangers Acquire PAUL MARA

February 2007

Boston Bruins Acquire ANDRE FERENCE, CHUCK KOBASEW

Calgary Flames Acquire WAYNE PRIMEAU, BRAD STUART

February 2007

Boston Bruins Acquire BRANDON BOCHENSKI

Chicago Blackhawks Acquire KRIS VERSTEEG, CONDITIONAL 5TH ROUND PICK

February 2007

Boston Bruins Acquire CONDITIONAL 3RD OR 4TH ROUND PICK

Washington Capitals Acquire MILAN JURCINA

January 2007

Boston Bruins Acquire 5TH ROUND PICK

St. Louis Blues Acquire YAN STASTNY

December 2006

Boston Bruins Acquire FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS

Pittsburgh Penguins Acquire WADE BROOKBANK

November 2006

Boston Bruins Acquire PHILIPPE SAUVE

Phoenix Coyotes Acquire TYLER REDENBACH

November 2006

Boston Bruins Acquire STANISLAV CHISTOV

Anaheim Ducks Acquire 3RD ROUND PICK

June 2006

Boston Bruins Acquire PAUL MARA

Phoenix Coyotes Acquire NICK BOYNTON

June 2006

Boston Bruins Acquire 3RD ROUND PICK

New York Islanders Acquire 4TH ROUND PICK, 5TH ROUND PICK

June 2006

Boston Bruins Acquire RIGHTS TO TUUKKA RASK

Toronto Maple Leafs Acquire ANDREW RAYCROFT

June 2006

Boston Bruins Acquire RIGHTS TO PETR TENKRAT

Toronto Maple Leafs Acquire 7TH ROUND PICK

RON HEXTALL

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Iain MacIntyre @imacVanSun

2 things I'm hearing: from the Canucks, nothing on Torts; from elsewhere, Ron Hextall in the mix for Van GM job

Farhan Lalji @FarhanLaljiTSN

@imacVanSun Hextall's parents live in BC. He's paid his dues with 2 solid organizations as the #2 guy. Has a ring. #canucks

“I do want to be a general manager,” Hextall told NHL.com in July. “I talked to (Flyers GM Paul Holmgren) about that when we talked about this job. If something else becomes available, I at least want to look at it. He was absolutely fine with that.”

QUALIFICATIONS

Upon his retirement from playing in 1999, Hextall immediately joined the Philadelphia Flyers' set-up as a Professional Scout. He was promoted to Director of Professional Player Personnel three years later, and was considered by the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame to be a key factor in the success experienced by the Flyers during the early 2000s, when they won the Atlantic Division three times, and reached the Eastern Conference Finals on two occasions. In June 2006, Hextall moved to the Los Angeles Kings to take on the role of Vice President and Assistant General Manager. In addition, Hextall served as the General Manager of the Manchester Monarchs of the AHL, the Kings' primary affiliate. On June 11, 2012, Hextall won the Stanley Cup that eluded him in 1987 and 1997, this time as the Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings. On July 15, 2013, Hextall returned to the Flyers, being named Assistant General Manager and Director of Hockey Operations.


DRAFT RECORD

1999 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Professional Scout

1st Round: G - Maxime Ouellet - 22nd Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: D - Jeff Feniak - 119th Overall

5th Round: LW - Michal Lanicek - 148th Overall

6th Round: LW - Konstantin Rudenko - 160th Overall

7th Round: C - Pavel Kasparik - 200th Overall

RW - Vaclav Pletka - 208th Overall

8th Round: LW - David Nystrom - 224th Overall

9th Round: No Picks

2000 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Professional Scout


1st Round: RW - Justin Williams - 28th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: RW - Alexander Drozdetsky - 94th Overall

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: No Picks

6th Round: G - Roman Cechmanek - 171st Overall

RW - Colin Shields - 195th Overall

7th Round: C - John Eichelberger - 210th Overall

C - Guillaume Lefebvre - 227th Overall

8th Round: D - Regan Kelly - 259th Overall

9th Round: LW - Milan Kopecky - 287th Overall

2001 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Professional Scout

1st Round: D - Jeff Woywitka - 27th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: C - Patrick Sharp - 95th Overall

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: D - Jussi Timonen - 146th Overall

G - Bernd Bruckler - 150th Overall

G - Roman Malek - 158th Overall

6th Round: D - Dennis Seidenberg - 172nd Overall

C - Andrei Razin - 177th Overall

7th Round: D - Thierry Douville - 208th Overall

D - David Printz - 225th Overall

8th Round: No Picks

9th Round: No Picks

2002 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Director of Professional Player Personnel

1st Round: D - Joni Pitkaen - 4th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: D - Rosario Ruggeri - 105th Overall

F - Konstantin Baranov - 126th Overall

5th Round: G - Dov Grumet Morris - 161st Overall

6th Round: D - Nikita Korovkin - 192nd Overall

D - Joey Mormina - 193rd Overall

7th Round: LW - Mathieu Brunelle - 201st Overall

8th Round: No Picks

9th Round: No Picks

2003 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Director of Professional Player Personnel

1st Round: C - Jeff Carter - 11th Overall

C - Mike Richards - 24th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: C - Colin Fraser - 69th Overall

RW - Stefan Ruzicka - 81st Overall

D - Alexandre Picard - 85th Overall

C - Ryan Potulny - 87th Overall

RW - Rick Kozak - 95th Overall

4th Round: C - Kevin Romy - 108th Overall

5th Round: G - David Tremblay - 140th Overall

6th Round: G - Rejean Beachumin - 191st Overall

G - Ville Hostikka - 193rd Overall

7th Round: No Picks

8th Round: No Picks

9th Round: No Picks

2004 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Director of Professional Player Personnel

1st Round: No Picks

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: RW - Rob Bellamy - 92nd Overall

4th Round: D - RJ Anderson - 101th Overall

RW - David Laliberte - 124th Overall

5th Round: D - Chris Zarb - 144th Overall

RW - Gino Pisellini - 149th Overall

6th Round: C - Ladislav Scurko - 170th Overall

C - Frederik Cabana - 171st Overall

7th Round: No Picks

8th Round: G - Martin Houle - 232nd Overall

D - Travis Gawryletz - 253rd Overall

9th Round: LW - Triston Grant - 286th Overall

C - John Carter - 291st Overall

2005 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Director of Professional Player Personnel

1st Round: RW - Steve Downie - 29th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: D - Oscar Bartulis - 91st Overall

4th Round: G - Jeremy Duscesne - 119th Overall

5th Round: C - Josh Beaulieu - 152nd Overall

6th Round: D - John Flatters - 174th Overall

7th Round: RW - Matt Clackson - 215th Overall

2006 Entry Draft

Position Held: Philadelphia Flyers Director of Professional Player Personnel

1st Round: RW - Claude Giroux - 22nd Overall

2nd Round: RW - Andreas Nodl - 39th Overall

D - Mike Ratchuk - 42nd Overall

D - Denis Bodrov - 55th Overall

3rd Round: C - Jon Matsumoto - 79th Overall

4th Round: D - Joonas Lehtibvuori - 101st Overall

G - Jacuk Kovar - 109th Overall

5th Round: RW - Jon Rheault - 145th Overall

6th Round: G - Michael Dupont - 175th Overall

7th Round: RW - Andre Popov - 205th Overall

2007 Entry Draft

Position Held: Los Angeles Kings Vice President and Assistant General Manager

1st Round: D - Thomas Hickey - 4th Overall

2nd Round: C - Oscar Moller - 52nd Overall

RW - Wayne Simmonds - 61st Overall

3rd Round: C - Bryan Cameron - 82nd Overall

4th Round: D - Alec Martinez - 95th Overall

C - Dwight King - 109th Overall

5th Round: G - Linden Rowat - 124th Overall

D - Joshua Turnbull - 137th Overall

6th Round: No Picks

7th Round: D - Josh Kidd - 184th Overall

LW - Matt Fillier - 188th Overall

2008 Entry Draft

Position Held: Los Angeles Kings Vice President and Assistant General Manager

1st Round: D - Drew Doughty - 2nd Overall

D - Colten Teubert - 13th Overall

2nd Round: D - Vyacheslav Voynov - 32nd Overall

3rd Round: F - Robbie Czarnik - 63rd Overall

D - Andre Campbell - 74th Overall

LW - Geordie Wudrick - 88th Overall

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: C - Andrei Loktionov - 123rd Overall

6th Round: C - Justin Azevedo - 153rd Overall

7th Round: LW - Garret Roe - 183rd Overall

2009 Entry Draft

Position Held: Los Angeles Kings Vice President and Assistant General Manager

1st Round: C - Breyden Schenn - 5th Overall

2nd Round: LW - Kyle Clifford - 35th Overall

3rd Round: D - Nicolas Deslauriers - 84th Overall

4th Round: G - Jean Francois Berube - 95th Overall

RW - Linden Vey - 96th Overall

5th Round: D - David Kolomatis - 126th Overall

6th Round: F - Michael Pelech - 156th Overall

RW - Brandon Kozun - 179th Overall

7th Round: C - Jordan Nolan - 186th Overall

C - Nic Dowd - 198th Overall

2010 Entry Draft

Position Held: Los Angeles Kings Vice President and Assistant General Manager

1st Round: D - Derek Forbort - 15th Overall

2nd Round: RW - Tyler Toffoli - 47th Overall

3rd Round: C - Jordan Weal - 70th Overall

4th Round: No Picks

5th Round: D - Kevin Gravel - 148th Overall

6th Round: LW - Maxim Kitsyn - 158th Overall

7th Round: No Picks

2011 Entry Draft

Position Held: Los Angeles Kings Vice President and Assistant General Manager

1st Round: No Picks

2nd Round: G - Christopher Gibson - 49th Overall

3rd Round: C - Andy Andreoff - 80th Overall

C - Nick Shore - 82nd Overall

4th Round: LW - Michael Mersch - 110th Overall

5th Round: LW - Joel Lowry - 140th Overall

6th Round: No Picks

7th Round: LW - Michael Schumacher - 200th Overall

2012 Entry Draft

Position Held: Los Angeles Kings Vice President and Assistant General Manager

1st Round: LW - Tanner Pearson - 30th Overall

2nd Round: No Picks

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: LW - Nikolai Prokhorkin - 121st Overall

5th Round: D - Colin Miller - 151st Overall

6th Round: RW - Tomas Hyka - 171st Overall

D - Paul LaDue 0 181st Overall

7th Round: D - Nick Ebert - 211th Overall

2013 Entry Draft

Position Held: Los Angeles Kings Vice President and Assistant General Manager

1st Round: No Picks

2nd Round: LW - Valentin Zykov - 37th Overall

3rd Round: No Picks

4th Round: RW - Justin Auger - 103rd Overall

RW - Hudson Fasching - 118th Overall

5th Round: G - Patrik Bartosak - 146th Overall

RW - Jonny Brodzinski - 148th Overall

6th Round: D - Zachary Leslie - 178th Overall

7th Round: LW - Dominik Kubalik - 191st Overall



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Could someone explain to me why benning is such a favoured candadite? I honestly don't know.

Could be simply because there have been a lot of positive spin articles on him lately, and people generally just follow that kind of info (see: Dallas Eakins last summer)

But also it's the fact that he has an impressive resume, seems to be a good classic "hockey guy" and comes from one of the best-run teams in the league as a successful assistant GM.

Experience + Results = good candidate.

But I don't know enough about him to really judge.

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Could be simply because there have been a lot of positive spin articles on him lately, and people generally just follow that kind of info (see: Dallas Eakins last summer)

But also it's the fact that he has an impressive resume, seems to be a good classic "hockey guy" and comes from one of the best-run teams in the league as a successful assistant GM.

Experience + Results = good candidate.

But I don't know enough about him to really judge.

He was a former scout. That's a huge part of his resume considering where this team is at.

He's responsible for guys like Marchand and Lucic with Boston. And guys like Miller, Gaustad, Roy, Pominville, Paille, Wideman, Ballard, Vanek, Hejda, MacArthur, Stafford, Sekera, and Kaleta as the director of Amateur scouting for the Sabres.

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