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Teams lose players for nothing all the time. Only Canuck fans keep an actual diary of every transaction the GM makes and throws it back in their faces when the team does poorly. Bergevin literally threw away a #2 defenceman in Sergachev yet he still has his job and his team is actually better now than before even without Sergachev. Stuff happens. Hughes may not be a true #1 Dman but he’s an 80 point defenseman that every team would love to have. Partner him with a big stay at home defenceman and he is a superstar core piece to any Stanley Cup championship team.
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Leivo is a bench warmer. Averages the same amount of minutes as Hawryluk. Stecher was scratched from one of the worst defences in the NHL. Demko is going to be a star, we didn’t need Markstrom. Hamonic is better than Tanev. Toffoli is having a once in a lifetime year. Let’s see what he does next year when he has to play the top teams in the league.
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It’s almost like they pretend they were in the room when Benning called every GM and nobody wanted Gaudette. And of course we should have just signed Tryamkin this week without even the thought of our cap situation after the expansion draft and into the summer. What if we signed Tryamkin this week and then didn’t have enough money to reup Petey and Hughes? Do we even know what either of those guys is looking for? They only share the same agent who’s one of the best in the business so I’m sure Benning will be able to sign them to super team friendly contracts. Like that’s really going to happen.
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Letting go of Adam Gaudette, Tyler Madden, Jared McCann and Nikita Tryamkin is not the end of the world. None of those players were core pieces. The core is still in place. And there’s more coming. The people who wanted Benning to re-sign Toffoli are the same people who wanted Benning to sign Markstrom to a 6x6 contract. It’s easy to play Monday morning quarterback. At the end of the day we have the kids who will take up most of the slots that will be left open. Benning already admitted that. Why bother drafting Podkolzin and Lind if you are going to re-sign Toffoli to a 4 year deal? Obviously he got the Markstrom situation correct. Letting Markstrom go and signing Demko to a long term deal was the absolute right thing to do. But everyone is upset because we didn’t sign Tryamkin who hasn’t played a game in the NHL in 4 years. Benning isn’t perfect but the hate he gets around here is getting to the point of being intolerable. Maybe some of the posters need to find some other hobby other than posting on CDC every day with their Benning hate rants. At the end of the day Benning has given us a #1 centre, #1 defencman, #1 goalie and a bunch of really good core pieces to surround them with. Some of his decisions have not been good but he is far from the absolute moron some posters think he is.
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[Report] Canucks recall Jonah Gadjovich
Elias Pettersson replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
We will find out in a week... -
@Stierlitz
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It’s time to close this thread. Honestly I don’t wanna hear Tryamkin’s name ever again. I highly doubt he ever plays in the NHL again. And even if he does after 6 years away he will be a fringe player at best. He needed to come over next year and prove himself. He obviously overvalued himself and Benning walked away. Wouldn’t surprise me if he wanted a deal in the $3 million+ range. It was nice knowing you Nikita. Good luck in Russia. Bye...
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I don’t think his rights are worth anything now as he’s already re-signed with Avto for 2 more years. The time to trade his rights would have been prior to him re-signing.
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Beniers may be BPA at 5. So you take him. I'm not sold on some of the Dmen in this draft. None of these guys are Victor Hedman or Drew Doughty. They all have holes in their game. Beniers could be a 2C and you play BO as a 3C. Everyone is complaining that we don't have any secondary scoring. We need to beef up our 3rd line. Miller is an option at centre but he is a UFA in 2 years and will be 30 years old so he may not be around when Beniers is in the lineup.
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Well he did come out of college as a centre, so I guess that was the position he was given to start his pro career. Green probably should have played him more in the top 6 as a winger, but Green isn't really the type of coach who likes to experiment. At the end of the day we need to overhaul our coaching staff. I didn't see Gaudette as a fit in Vancouver and I also don't see Green as our coach after this year either.
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We have Podkolzin and Lind who were much higher picks that are projected to play RW in the next year along with Boeser. Podkolzin looks like a stud and Lind can be a very effective 200' player on the 3rd line. So there wasn't any room for Gaudette as a right winger in my opinion. Trading Gaudette was the right thing to do. What we got back can definitely be debated. But it seems Benning had been shopping him for awhile with no bites so who knows what teams were offering. Gaudette could very well put up 40 points in Chicago. But I'd still take Podkolzin and Lind over him. Our need is a 3C and Gaudette was never going to be that guy.
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[Report] Canucks recall Jonah Gadjovich
Elias Pettersson replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Thank God. Love this kid. Wish Petey was back as I'd play him with Petey and Brock. -
Agreed. I'd play Gadjovich with Petey and Boeser, just tell him to drive to the net on every play. If he can improve his skating he can be a legit power forward in the NHL with top 6 potential. Gadjovich Pettersson Boeser Pearson Horvat Podkolzin Hoglander Miller Lind Let the kids play. I'd run that lineup next year. We could potentially have 3 legit scoring lines. I prefer Miller on the wing but since it's almost impossible to find a 3C via trade or free agency and Gadjovich is a left winger, we could move Miller to centre permanently to shore up that 3rd line. Lind looks like a keeper and he can fill in at centre when we get an injury.
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My buddies all got COVID already so I think I'll pass for now. I don't think Aliens can get COVID anyways...