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I mean, at least we have Garland and OEL and all that sweet sweet cap space.
Right?
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I have to agree. The OEL/Garland Trade is looking worse and worse in hind sight every game we see. Losing those top 10 picks, also is problematic. It is gambling/shortcutting that has consistently put this club behind the 8 ball for the last decade or so. Coupled with a development system that only seems to really work if the player is talented enough to skip it, we're looking more Oiler-esque than not.
This roster is built wrong. It is supplemented by not that much, and I don't know if there is any easy fix to quickly turn it around. BUT, if we can accurately diagnose and do surgery on this roster, I still believe that we can turn it around with a semblance of the core.
There are some good pieces, and some good pieces implemented by this management group. Mikeyev, Kuzmenko, Bear, etc aren't the problem, per se. So at least those added pieces have value. But we need to figure out Horvat, Miller, Myers, OEL, Schenn, Pearson, etc. If you don't stick the landing on this before next season, we are in for a long term pain, with nothing in the pipeline that can be seen as impactful in terms of reinforcements from Below.
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The point is @Phil_314 is that we would have had the 6 or 7 million cap space to acquire that RHD we need and a ELC to soften the impact. We would also have enough to re-sign Horvat and Kuzmenko.
The point is Benning never planned for the future.
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@J.I.A.H.N totally valid, and as serviceable as Garland and OEL were last season, things clearly fell off the rails for both which makes this trade look even less palatable (esp. considering Horvat/ Kuz need new contracts). If we had time machines I'd bet 99% of Canucks fans would hope to go back and stop Benning from making that trade call, so Loui/ Beagle/ Roussel's contracts could just fall off the books, but no point crying over what's already happened.