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He sure shazzam........he sure did. Lord knows where this team would be if Boudreau had started off coaching this team this season......or even last season for that matter when we had Nate Schmidt.

LMFAO. That's awesome. I didn't watch tonight's game as I was contemplating hanging up my fandom for awhile, but that chant right there may have sold me on sticking around.

1) I agree with you on this and so..........??? 2) I clearly and openly stated that this team looked pleasantly different tonight. All I did was point out that this likely has to do with coaching........and that Benning's biggest flaw here was that he was too loyal to Green. I'll also give you 'sketchy pro scouting.' Benning took a lot of calculated gambles in his pro scouting and failed on a lot of them in many respects.

On a game related positive note...... God damn I love Boudreau! That's a world class kick ass coach right there. I personally would have gone with Claude Julien but I'm really glad that we didn't.

Was Boudreau available in 2017? (when Benning hired Green). I agree with you that it was time for Benning to go. Things were getting toxic and ownership needed to make a decision to appease the rising toxicity amongst the fans. I also agree that Benning's biggest mistake was that he was too loyal to Green.

Who's blaming Gillis? After the Canucks lost to the Kings in 2012, Gillis went up to ownership with a plan to do a scorched earth rebuild in which we'd trade our top players, at their peaks, for very elite prospects. Aqua's told Gillis to 'F off' unfortunately. When Benning took over the team in 2014, the values of our top players had greatly diminished. Gillis wasn't the one to blame at all (although even you must admit that Gillis' drafting was off the charts terrible). Ownership was.

1) Look at all of the top teams in the league and how many years they experienced growing pains. 2) This 8 years narrative is Thomas Drance drivel/nonsense. 2015: 1st round 2016: DNQ 2017: DNQ 2018: DNQ 2019: DNQ 2020: 2nd round 2021: DNQ 2022: ??? Did we rebuilt this team in record time? Absolutely not. But again - do some homework kid. Florida, Carolina, Colorado, Edmonton, Toronto, Calgary, etc., etc. Show me a team that didn't go through years upon years of growing pains. Maybe the Penguins? The Bruins, to their credit, usually qualified for the playoffs during their growing pains but they always lost in the 1st round. Get your facts straight. Friends don't let friends be brainwashed my dickheads like Thomas Drance.

We both agree that Benning was too loyal to Green. No argument from me there.

No. 1) If toxicity grows amongst the fanbase, ownership has to make changes. Ownership did the right thing by putting out the burgeoning #FireBenning storm. 2) The team was expected to compete this year and as we all can see, it didn't happen. My hypothesis is that Benning built a solid team this season but coaching was hurting this team. Tonight is just one game against a mediocre Kings team, but as the anti-Benning crowd on here point out, "the team looked different." Unfortunately for the anti-Benning crew, "the team looking different" isn't an argument that strengthens their side...........it strengthens *our* side. Like I said - if the Canucks manage to claw back to .500 or so within the next 5-6 weeks and/or go on a winning streak, I'm coming down to Rogers arena with my sign. BENNING BUILT THIS TEAM.

Not butthurt at all. I'm just laughing at the 'anti Benning' crew for pointing out how 'different' the Canucks looked tonight to spite Benning. New coach with a new system? Players being used in different roles? If the Canucks go on a winning streak and manage to claw back to .500, you'll see me in the front row with a sign that says, BENNING BUILT THIS TEAM.

There's nothing negative about it. The Canucks looked solid tonight and deserved the W. I'm just pointing out to the "idiots" that are cheering the win tonight to spite Benning, that this team was 100% built by Benning and that Benning's only apparent fault (built on this one game sample size) is that he was too loyal to Green. HF Canucks are already trying to spin this as, "the players weren't giving a full effort up until tonight's game because they had lost faith in management"......but again, would that be a poor reflection on Benning or a poor reflection on the players?

We can agree that a major mistake that Benning made was not replacing Green much sooner.

Hilarious how the anti-Benning guys are cheering the win tonight citing how "different" the team looked tonight, without considering the fact that 1) Benning built this team 2) It's only one game 3) If the Canucks do in fact end up looking much better due to the coaching change, it's still a team that Benning built..........and Benning's only apparent fault was that he was too loyal to Green.

HA! The ironing is delicious. ps - the new Chapter of Canuckdom awaits. I’ll be cheering from afar in this new era as I promised myself in 2011 that I’d wait to leave before all players from that team had moved on before making a decision, but I liked what I saw from this summer with the Garland/OEL trade and so I figured I’d stay on for a bit even though Edler was leaving. It is fitting that my tenure (for now) ends on the day that Benning and Green got gassed seeing as how I’ve been a huge Benning supporter and advocate from Day One. Cheers all.

Schenn or Burroughs would play left.

Penguins 3 Canucks 4 Pittsburgh is better than us but I think the Canucks take this one 4-3. Canucks have some momentum going and are trying to save their season and so I think they will be the hungrier of the two teams. Hoglander = GWG

I watched the Boston game (Halak’s last outing) and he was fine. The team in front needs to step up and it looks like they are starting to do that. If the Canucks beat the Pens tomorrow, we can start to realistically think about a miraculous push for the playoffs.

Some fans and media in Vancouver honestly don’t deserve to be fans of this team.

Great game but Boeser with zero points is a concern to me. Petey only had one.

Your post brings back memories of the Odjick/Strudwick trade for me. I think they got traded at or slightly before game day when both the Canucks and Islanders played each other at GM place. Odjick and Strudwick fought as members of their new teams, and the fans cheered Odjick. 17 year old me did the same.

I'll have to agree with this unfortunately based on what I've seen this season so far. Let's hope we are wrong.

Hirsch speculated that something might be going on in the locker room which then prompted Drance to run with it and fabricate the Miller-Horvat lord of the flies crap.

1) He made up the lockerroom rift rumors between Miller and Horvat. 2) A few years back, he completely fabricated a story that Benning wanted Cody Glass over Pettersson at the 2017 draft.

I’ll be the guy to say it: I wonder if Slava Voynov is still as good as he was back in 2015?

Agreed but the Canucks can use this to their advantage. They won’t have that “holier than thou” vibe to them like when they faced the Red Wings and Sabres earlier this year.