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  1. There is an 100% chance Seattle doesn't take Myers if he's unprotected. We should have exposed him instead of trading for Bowey. We had a really good opportunity to add a defenceman from another team, but Benning is too arrogant/stupid to realize no one is going to want Myers' terrible deal and is going to protect him because of his own ego.
  2. Can someone name a single other team that had to give up any form of value for an AHL-tier player for expansion draft's sake? It's an extremely avoidable situation.
  3. If Benning planned this better, he could've gotten someone to expose without surrendering assets. The Stars literally claimed Vatanen on waivers today, we could've done that. But he's an idiot, he doesn't plan. He never plans.
  4. He's 10 days away from turning 26. It's very likely he has any serious form of potential left. Best case scenario is that he becomes a regular bottom pairing defenceman, the kind that is available all the time in free agency.
  5. This is not an "alright depth pickup" or whatever. He's been a horrible defenceman his entire career, and has been struggling to play regularly aside from one year with a horrendous Detroit team. We are not in a position to be mortgaging any form of draft position, and this once again contradicts the plan of "patience" or whatever.
  6. This was a player who has been available on waivers and in free agency multiple times, what the &^@# is this asset management?
  7. I don't think Gaudette is some great piece or whatever, and the people who think that that's why people are upset misunderstand. It's A ) Another situation where we're selling low on a player B ) Another situation where we're trading for someone with literally zero upside C ) Another situation where Benning is targetting someone he liked out of junior 4 years ago, ignoring recent developments making the player have no value Combined with the Pearson transaction, he literally never learns.
  8. does wanting your team to make sensible transactions make someone an annoying little brat
  9. Yes, let's make serious accusations towards the player without any evidence as soon as we trade him.
  10. It's so &^@#ing disingenuous to call any criticism towards Benning "knee-jerk", especially considering he's been an awful GM doing predictably dumb $&!# for literally 7 years. Why is the Brackett situation a "farce"? We don't know yet, we've literally had one draft since he left (where we had very few picks, none of which have legitimately done well). It's objectively very concerning when your goalie coach still isn't here this close to his contract expiring, I don't know how you can call the fact that he still doesn't have a new deal "fake news". The options weren't slim, we could've signed literally anyone for cheaper. Look at Holtby's numbers prior to this season, they were absolute garbage. Someone like Aaron Dell was available very cheaply and had actually played decently over the last few years. It doesn't matter if cap is opening up for this move, it's a dumb signing because Pearson has been terrible for the last calendar year (25 points in 68 games since the start of the 2020 calendar year despite often playing high in the lineup with Horvat and on the PP). Benning clearly hasn't learned from his mistakes about overpaying for pedigree instead of recent performance/production -- that's a dangerous level of stupidity. It's so hard to take him seriously when he blames everything/one else in press conferences and then does $&!# like this. 24 goals per season is better than anything Jake or Gaudette has done for their entire career. Sure, if Toffoli isn't scoring then it's a bad contract. But he's a good player, he is scoring. You can literally apply this type of reasoning to any contract -- it's the GM's job to figure out which players are likely to maintain their production.
  11. If Benning signs an obviously declining Pearson to a deal going into the 2022-2023 season, that pretty obviously isn't the plan. He's not going to flip a switch and seems to sign several bad contracts every year. Furthermore, agents know they have him by the balls at this point and can get what they want out of him.
  12. repeatedly saying "smell what jb is cooking" isn't an actual argument and it just makes you sound like a cult member more than anything else
  13. Pearson definitely hasn't earned his spot next to Horvat based on this season. If you want Podkolzin to have competition, you should probably have him compete with an actual good player. One of this organization's biggest problems is that there is virtually no accountability amongst veterans -- it's a literal country club at times and Benning/Green are way too obsessed with their own bad players.
  14. The fact that Gudbranson sucked here came as a huge surprise to just about everybody except anyone who has a decent understanding of statistics.
  15. Benning's "experience" involves a $&!# ton of bottom 10 finishes, why would you trust that? I can understand this point if an actual successful GM made this signing, but that isn't the case.
  16. This is appeal to authority. A lot of NHL GMs are just random former players, I don't see why people who have spent their entire lives following the NHL can't be better or as good at evaluating signings as actual GMs. NHL managers are often terrible and make very predictable mistakes. A likely reason that Benning drafts well is because you have an entire scouting department for the draft. As you can see in any of the mic'd up draft videos on the Canucks YouTube, he often just defers to Brackett and Weisbrod.
  17. So it's just bad luck that the vast majority of them didn't turn out and had nothing to do with Benning's piss-poor player evaluation or an incorrect assessment of what the team needed? What would a signing have to do to be considered bad to you?
  18. Yes, I'll also acknowledge that he had a few 40+ point seasons by being carried by Carter and Toffoli as well.
  19. You cherrypicked a career year that was massively propped up by empty net stats. Otherwise, he's been very unproductive since the start of the 2018-2019 season, and he isn't getting any younger. He warranted a far cheaper contract based on his play this season and in last year's playoffs.
  20. In what way has he been a "good second line winger" for this team? His production has nosedived massively over the last calendar year.
  21. He's currently on pace for ~27 points over an 82 game season...
  22. He has already declined a $&!# ton in the past year. This will not look good three years from now. It doesn't matter if it's not huge money on its own when we always have several of these contracts add up.
  23. The expansion draft part of this is the most pathetic part of this.
  24. The second Jim gets a chance to overpay a declining player, he'll do it. This Pearson extension shows there was never a "plan" to let the cap space open up when players like Pettersson/Hughes were hitting their prime. He just didn't spend any money last offseason because he didn't have any. Inexcusable garbage.
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