Convincing John
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To bad he wasn’t a RHD with a wicked shot.
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I’ve accepted that this season is over and I’m ok with it. I was entertained, so I can’t complain.
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13 minutes ago, oldnews said:
The principal thing that convinced me Juolevi was a good pick - even if 'risky' - is that his bread and butter is his hockey intelligence (about as 'safe' a basis as there is imo).
He may have been slight - but the brain is the most important 'muscle'.
His resurgence is the biggest surprise this year. I basically mourned his death. I’m just so happy for the kid. Very soft spoken, seems humble. it’s hard not to cheer for a guy that’s quietly climbed out of the gutter. You can almost see the rain clouds above his head evaporating. That boy was cursed.
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3 minutes ago, stawns said:
He used that cap space to keep the pressure of a franchise off the shoulders of a couple 20 year olds.
Give me a break, that is pure moose poop. This theory is right up there with the effectiveness of essential oils. If you want some vets to take the pressure off the youngins sign some short term contracts to guys in their twilight. You don’t need to lock up 4th liners for half a decade.
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Honestly if Benning just stops his stupid, clockwork free agent frenzy I’d be totally happy with him. Everyone is all “We have so much cap space in 2 years” while forgetting that Jim never just sits on cap space, ever. I guarantee that we will have at least (1) 30 year old locked up for 5-6 years after the garbage comes off the books. He can’t help himself.
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We are pretty much healthy, let that sink in.
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I just think you gotta make a management splash every 5-10 years. GM’s become too emotionally involved in their mistakes and overvalue the players they’ve accumulated. You need a guy to come in who doesn’t give a crap about who drafted when and what we gave up to get whatever.
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Win or lose it’s still -38 in Calgary.
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1 hour ago, HKSR said:
Honestly, I think many of you have lost sight of what has actually transpired that resulted in the Canucks being where they are now...
When GMJB traded for Toffoli, the plan was to re-sign him. We heard it from the horse himself and media had reported it as well. He was likely planning to re-sign Tanev as well. But what happened? Covid happened. The cap stayed flat rather than going up by millions, and with a flat cap across the entire league, GMJB could no longer find any trade partners to dump cap. Hence, instead of keeping 1 or both of Toffoli and Tanev, we lost both along with Marky (who I feel was probably gonna be lost either way with the contracts coming up for extension -- Petey, Hughes, et al.)
So before a bunch of you go calling for GMJB's head, he at least had a game plan in place prior to an unprecedented pandemic that messed everything up.
I'm still fully in support of GMJB as I feel he had the ship going in the right direction before an act of God steered it off course.
There is absolutely no excuse for being in cap hell after multiple lottery seasons. The only cap concern a team like us should have is reaching the floor. All this stupid money spend on this meaningless era of purgatory is seeping into our upward trend. If this idiot was a portfolio manager he’d be homeless by now.
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It’s kinda like when Cherry left. You bash and bash then when it’s gone your like, “wait, I didn’t want that”. I enjoyed 1040, agreed or disagreed it’s nice to hear people talk hockey while you’re mopping the garage floor.
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47 minutes ago, nowhereman said:
He plays on the right, though.
We need that right shot on the point IMO. Remember how great the PP was when we had Sami and Hoff. I honestly think it’s the biggest organizational hole.
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10 hours ago, oldnews said:
then there would be no one else to credit then - 100% to his credit - when this core grows up - if this team were to win a Cup.
that - of course - would also be nonsense.
The reality is that Linden deserves credit, Gillis who acquired Horvat, deserves credit - this team is not 100% Benning built - Edler predated Benning as well, was drafted in the summer between the Burke and Nonis, who deserve credit, Green deserves credit, Ron Delorme deserves credit, Thomas Gradin deserves credit - and on and on - and vice versa.
Benning is in charge of surrounding himself. He resigned everyone on the team. All of his staff is his.
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The team we see before us is 100% Benning built. No excuses, nobody else to blame, this is all his. Anyone who says they feel he deserves to see his vision come to fruition, here it is.
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It would be even better if he shot right. Big year for D men but they’re all lefty It would be so amazing to get an elite RHD to play with Quinn.
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59 minutes ago, HKSR said:
Podkolzin is over there going..."yeah... No.... I'm gonna stay here for a little while... "
Ya cause eating Turnips and unseasoned boiled chicken and cabbage in depressing, soulless Russia is better.
not being sarcastic.
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Jim Benning is about to do some serious damage to the future to save his job. Book it.
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Out of all the pending UFA’s we’ve had during the trade deadline we’ve sold like 3 for futures over the last 20 years. I seriously can’t even recall us ever unloading contracts at the deadline. History always repeats itself, therefore, we won’t sell anything.
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If I had to pick one player we could keep and one only it’s Hughes.
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Fire everyone. You can’t pin it on all on TG. Anyone who wasn’t blindly infatuated with JB knows that the day would come where his little UFA frenzies came back to give him the kiss of death. Screw everyone, fire everyone.
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I’ve shift into excited for the draft mode.
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This is the worst Canucks hockey I’ve seen since purgatory began after Torts. I seriously can’t believe how bad we look,
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4 hours ago, DownUndaCanuck said:
Agreed, he put himself in a big hole with the Eriksson signing. The only other bad one IMO was Roussel who isn't worth his money but at the time, is exactly what the team needed - a gritty Burrows-like player (who has unfortunately really regressed). The "cap hell" he's put us in is really just the Eriksson 6M hole plus I would say Roussel's money which isn't worth it. Look around the league, he's not the only one by a long-shot who has wasted money lying around.
What I see now is that he's thinking long term, he has to sign Hughes and Pettersson as well in the upcoming off-season so we physically couldn't have signed Marky, Tanev and Toffoli realistically, and kept Boeser, Horvat, Myers and then dish out massive contracts to Petey and Hughes. They simply don't fit unless you want 800-900K AHL players playing in our bottom-6 and bottom-3 defence like Toronto.
I know it's hard to see and everyone on CDC is going mad because in the short-term, this off-season looked appalling but it was the right thing to do in the long-run and unfortunately no one will see that. Wait until this coming off-season where Benning will really shine - sign our stars to smart contracts, move some dead-weights and most importantly look to pry away an excess skilled player a team is scared to lose for nothing to Seattle. This past off-season was never going to be pretty.
I agree with this for the most part. Where I see some blame is the lack of forward thinking years prior. He is looking long term because he is forced to, what choice does he have? 5 years ago the group of ole boys drinking coffee at your local A&W could see this happening today. He got lucky with Ferland. He should have been thinking long term years ago. He spend money and assets on our purgatory. I’m sorry, this is inexcusable.
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I watched a lot of live JV in Calgary in his draft year. He was never a “playmaker” like most high IQ guys are. When he was in his draft year he was extremely dominant. He was just so much stronger and faster than everyone. Looked like a dad jumping in a road hockey game. However, he was a puck hog too. It seems like he can only see in straight lines. It’s not like these guys can’t have success though, you don’t have to be off the charts in IQ. You just have to bust your @ss and get open. IQ isn’t Jake’s problem, it’s effort.
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6 hours ago, DownUndaCanuck said:
Term is everything. The ED affects everything. Schmidt is younger and to be fair, was better all around than Tanev (before this season...) and his contract will age better than an older, fragile Tanev. Holtby's Seattle-exposed whereas Marky wanted protection and has an Erikkson-like contract which won't age well.
Probs to JB for making the unpopular moves and letting players in their prime leave for the better of this team's future. He learned from the Eriksson mistake.
Toffoli could have been saved, as easy as moving Pearson or Roussel out, but nobody is biting on trades right now because of the flat cap and ED so don't fault him on "moving money out" because it's the worst time to do it. I understand why he wanted to try one more year with JV and Gaudette but now he's seen that those experiments aren't working.
If the off season happened again, he'd do it all again, doesn't really have a better option.
This reminds me of one of those moms that blindly defend their kids who are just complete disasters lol. Dude, it’s ok to admit that Jim Benning’s off-season was a complete disaster. These same people who always give props to Benning for burning money on UFA’s and cashing in draft picks/prospects to stay “competitive” for the good of development. Now it’s ok to step back for the good of the future? You guys don’t understand. This step back, should have happened the day he came on board. Benning managed to kill everything he did well by getting himself in cap hell.
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[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks vs. Winnipeg Jets | February 21, 2021 | 7 p.m. PT | SNP NHLN
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Regardless of the outcome of the season I’m more optimistic today then I was after our playoff run. The emergence of hogs, OJ and the Boeser snap back have convinced me that better days are ahead. We will also get Pods and a very good Draft pick added to the mix going forward. I was entertained by this game, the effort was good. I’m totally content.