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  1. He could be just checking out his worth and weighing staying home or going somewhere else for $X dollars.
  2. He is 29, this is a recipe for disaster. It boggles my mind really. After all theses salt and pepper Headed journeymen cashing in on Bennings fetishizes, there are people that are like “sweet”
  3. So no matter what LE will be on the Canucks next season.
  4. Johnny Canuck is an amateur looking logo so it fits.
  5. Hahahah, Or just a regular guy who’s only job is to set all the clocks in Jim’s house back like 6 hrs the night before free agency. If that guy was real we’d be so much further ahead today.
  6. Ya cause that’s mainly why we are in cap trouble. Way to go Gillis, without your Luongo recapture that you couldn’t psychically predict we could be signing way more bottom 6 forwards who skate really well and know what a winning culture is all about. You need at least 2 of these guys for every player under 25 or you’ll be a leafs fan. Go cheer for the leafs.
  7. I don’t really mind either player. I’d be ok with this. If we can’t retain Hammer maybe Erik Johnson will be available, there is speculation he is going to be bought out. We don’t have many big dollar options so we just need someone to fill a jersey.
  8. If we can’t promote within then we need to sign guys to 1 year contracts so we have the ability to flip them at the deadline. No more 3 year deals to salt and pepper headed, declining, injury prone anchors.
  9. It feels like he doesn’t deal with anything before it happens, he only deals with things as they happen
  10. We don’t have a Tampa bay core. We have a Canadian franchise being rushed out of a rebuild core. So ya, let’s go all in on little Bertuzzi. It’s in sync with our goal of making the playoffs.
  11. If Stevie Y is stockpiling draft picks, maybe Jim should take notes. We don’t need to be trading any draft picks away. We need to strip back down to the frame, which is a pretty decent frame, and do what Jim does best. Draft the hell out of some players. I seriously can’t believe we are even talking about trading futures for players other GMs give up on. How many times do we need to be bitten by this stupid idea? Like 12?
  12. Stevie Y will break Jim Benning over like a double barrelled shotgun.
  13. And Jim can’t manage a cap. The article is from 2017, where do you keep this stuff? do you have a MG scrapbook or something? With the pages all bumpy from your dried up tears. Jesus man. This is getting uncomfortable.
  14. In years 1-4 sure. He definitely F’d the team but Dazzle, players he drafted in his first year are in their mid 20’s. all of Gillis is nearly flushed out. One can even argue that Horvat almost makes whatever lingering effects neutral. i will never go back and criticize his misses at the draft table either. I loved JV and OJ in Jr. GM’s miss on draft picks, that’s just reality. There isn’t a single player that man has drafted that I’ve complained about. Why? Cause I trust him and he has proven himself in this area over and over. I will go back on him rolling the dice and throwing draft picks like they were covered in AIDS. It’s an absolute tragedy that he didn’t go all in years 1-4 instead of blowing picks for in a nothing time of transition. I clearly remember him explaining how he needed to fill this age gap and how picks in the later rounds take 5 years before they’re ready for the NHL. Well that 5 years is now. We don’t have the picks or the Linden Vey’s to show for. With his drafting ability, that man should be consistently filling his pockets with picks, not emptying them for instant gratification.
  15. You desperately need to move on from Gillis. It was a different league, under different circumstances. If you all say ownership is breathing down Benning’s back to spend the cap and have success than imagine what that pressure was like for him with an actual Stanley cup contender. He had to throw all his chips in to win. Scouting, the value of draft picks, etc. Both GM’s suck hard. Gillis did turn a mediocre team into the best in the league but failed to maintain a replenishing stock.
  16. Ok so signing those players got us where exactly? How many guys do we need in the locker room showing Horvat how to be a pro? The only thing they’re teaching our young players is how to work hard for a big contract so a roster spot is gifted to you because you’re being paid so much that you can’t be scratched or sent down. Imagine working wicked hard all summer and showing up to camp hoping to win a roster spot but Roussel is there. Cool culture.
  17. This is the Neapolitan ice cream box of Benning bros rebuttals. I know I’ll just repeat everything I said in a 3rd person argument with myself. I’ll bring up the leafs and call the insubordinate a leafs fan completely out of nowhere. I’ll throw in some lit gifs to further discredit while addressing nothing and making all the older pro JB posters laugh with my edgy middle aged Facebook humour. well done sir, I’m actually going to use this post as a glossary. it’s not who we lost, it’s what we can’t add to our emerging core. The Holtby, roussel, beagle, and sutter sentiment is heartwarming but you gotta score some goals and stop the puck. Place holders don’t need 4 year contracts. Or $4M. Having those guys vs not had no tangible results. You act like we win or something. Bennings crown moment is winning a couple rounds in a slapped together tournament with a hot goaltender.
  18. I don’t have excuses. The GM of my favourite team doesn’t know how to manage a cap. He singlehandedly killed any momentum we had with bad ufa signings compounded over several July’s. you act like he just surprisingly and suddenly had no cap space. We are one of the worst teams in the league the last 7 years. His leadership spending sprees prevented us from progressing. Look at the cost and production of our bottom 6. There is absolutely no reason we should be a cap team after 7 years in the basement. Imagine if he was your portfolio manager. Well thanks for the Hughes and EP stocks, but overall I’m losing money from your Buy high approach when you shoulda just stuck to what you’re good at from the start. Drafting players. I don’t understand how you can praise Jim’s drafting in late rounds then be ok with him surrendering picks or eating up cap space for players to make us competitive during purgatory. Think about how much better off we would be today if he had some cap discipline. We’d be waltzing into an expansion draft with 20 mil in cap space and a bus load of prospects. Maybe one would be proud of our dismal record over the past 7 years if we had that to hang our hat on.
  19. 14 excuses. I find that I’m almost in a euphoric state. It’s like my body is being overwhelmed with sarcasm right now. I don’t even know what’s real anymore or who I really am. It’s like a high, reading 14 excuses. It’s like you’re implying these excuses are attached to a success but they aren’t. They are attached to failure. They aren’t “I told you so’s” they are 14 excuses for failure. Agh. I’m just in heaven right now. There is absolutely no substance to any of this. It’s all just denial. I need more.
  20. Why are you talking to me about Gillis, go put your paper bag on. Nobody cares about 7 years ago. You probably still have a flip phone.
  21. Wow, you sure showed me. It’s pretty black and white really. He hasn’t had results. when you tell the media over and over again how you’re this winning culture architect and you lose better than most of the teams in the league your credibility is worthless. Miller had to stand up for his team after the COVID outbreak while big time winner Benning didn’t have the spine to push back. Thanks JT TT stated on numerous occasions that he wasn’t even offered a contract and he loved Vancouver. What was Bennings rebuttal? We ran out of time? Sweet, you’re welcome LA kings. You’re welcome Montreal. Thank you for signing Holtby instead. How do people still believe in this guy? It’s shocking and unsettling. His stupid contracts are coming back to haunt him in real time and people still go out of their way to make excuses. There is nothing more dangerous than a GM with one last chance to prove himself. The mistakes are going to be Milbury.
  22. Hey, when you talk about a winning culture and the best you can do is 17th OA with the same budget as The best teams in the league, I’ll call that out all day, every day.
  23. Work hard hey? How hard would you or me need to work to get $6,000,000? How many years would would we need to work to accumulate that kind of money? If you can truly quantify that then you’ll have no problem calling these guys turds. They worked hard for other teams to earn these contracts. They aren’t living up to over here. I have no pity.
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