Convincing John

I was excited for the trade, I love Schmidt, I thought it was a great price to acquire him. However, he just doesn’t seem to fit. It’s unfortunate.

We could easily replace Schmidt within our organization. He is extremely redundant. Juolevi and Rbone will both be equal too or better than he is in 2 years. Easily.

Right on man, looks like you’re drug of choice is still upvotes derived from your edgy Facebook type humour.

Can you mentor me? I don’t know how to carry myself on CDC. Your veteran leadership is what’s needed to make us all successful.

I can’t wait to hear the people who worship Jim Benning’s draft record say that draft picks aren’t that big of a Deal. Hahah They go on Google and quote their little probabilities. Hear ye, hear ye players drafted after 8th overall have a 0.0045% chance of making team Canada, therefore drafting is a waste of time. Then all the Benning buds shower the post with beer mugs and huggy bears. While simultaneously bashing their keyboard with tears flowing. Denouncing anyone who doesn’t ignore Jim Benning’s bush league roster decisions. Then they’ll give you a list of all the players he drafted. Hahaha. See!!!! This is my little puzzle I like to try to figure out once in a while. we can all agree that most of Jim’s mistakes have been made signing contracts and acquiring established players. We can all agree that Jim’s home runs have come in the form of drafting. When is he going to just trust his area of expertise and use/ acquire some draft picks? If he followed this philosophy from day 1 we would have the same core at the very least, clearly more, at a fraction of what he is paying. This would be the time to start adding veterans with your ridiculous amount of cap space. We are now further behind from trying to get further ahead. That stupid “age gap” cost us like 5 years.

Holy crap man, that was years ago. If you were born the day Gillis was fired you would already be old enough to understand that Jim Benning is a horrible General Manager.

You love Jim Benning cause you think like Jim Benning. 1st and foremost, Tampa Bay is as cap strapped as us. (as they should be with actual success). Why in the hell would they trade one of the most economically satisfying contracts on their roster? It’s like you guys think all the GMs sit around and say, hmmmmmm, what can I do to make Vancouver better? All the branch Jim Benningians will burn in a compound worshiping every word he says. All of us who are sane on the outside looking in can’t believe how you all can blindly accept this trash and think you’re thriving.

Cal Foote? Are you high? I watched that loaf of bread play in Kelowna. Why would he even come up in a 9th OA conversation. There are probably 7 d in this draft with better upside than that potato. And Cernak hey? You know we are picking 9OA at the max cap right. Wth is Tampa gong to take back in salary. This isn’t EA sports dude.

Please, 97.62% didn’t know they were trading away a top 10 pick. But go ahead and unfold the perfect blanket for the rushing rebuild picnic. It’s all about setting the tone improving the optics. If you know you have a 9th overall pick, you don’t trade it. Why? Because your team sucks a$$$ and when your team sucks you need to build a core through the draft. When your team is awesome, you can trade a 1st to make immediate improvements. I honestly don’t even care. The bigger he screws up, the sooner his is gone, and the sooner we can start over.

He is moving the 9th overall pick. Don’t even look at mock drafts or research players cause we aren’t touching that thing. In the past what? 10-15 years? There hasn’t been too many GMs stupid enough to move a top 10 pick but here we are guys. Let’s get a NHL ready player, ready to sign a big contract. this interview literally made me sick.

Modelling your team to the flavour of the month is one of the biggest mistakes you can make in team building. Just pick a style and draft and develop to that style. One of my biggest issues with our team is we have no identity. Jim Benning struggles with finding players who complement each other, then when he does he lets them walk cause he has to pay for the duds that nobody wants.

I agree, I’d go as far as saying we need him more than Schmidt.

I seriously can’t wrap my head around how Sakic and Benning can be compared. Mind you, Benning has the potential to do what Sakic did if he utilized his strength in drafting. If JB showed up, tanked, and collected as many draft picks as possible, we could very easily be lurking in the avalanche shadow right now. People are far too optimistic about our organizational depth. We have some horrendous holes where the avs have mountains.

@Arrow 1983the avalanche patiently collected assets and drafted well. Over more than a decade. There is absolutely nothing patient about what we did here. I don’t know how on earth you came up with a blog explaining the similarities when there are absolutely no similarities in the method. They did not build a team from the basement at a max salary cap. They still, rarely give up futures for instant gratification. This is like comparing an Bag of beef jerky to a cow.

I’m not convinced QH or EP are elite NHL players who can carry a team to the cup. I still believe we need our crown jewel. This doesn’t need to come from a top 3 pick but it would definitely increase those chances. I don’t think that player is even in this years draft. The only dark horse in our core that has the potential to be our Savour is Demko.

We do not need another LHD, I’m sorry, everything else is a higher priority including another good Goalie prospect.

At this stage we have positional needs.

1. RHD 2. C 3. Winger 4. goalie 5. LHD

You nailed it, grow up Jake, you’re being paid millions to play in the NHL for the team you grew up loving. This is literally the life everyone on this board dreamed about at some point and he is throwing it away. All he has to do is stay home and not be a douchebag.

You cannot compare those teams to ours personal wise. IMO and clearly in Jim Benning’s opinion too, TG did well with what he had. We have huge holes in our d, and we need more top 6 forwards to displace guys into our bottom 6. I hate to bring this up because it’s redundant but TT was a huge loss. That is the exact player we need to do the above. We also need another elite C. Bo horvat is amazing. But imagine if he was shuffled down to more of a 2BC or a 3C. We would be a completely different team. IMO we are a Partner for QH and a centre to displace Horvat down the lineup away from being in the Tampa, Colorado discussion. Those are 2 major pieces that can only be drafted and developed. We currently have nobody in the system to fit that description

Coaching is obviously important but people go off the rails about it and it’s totally uncalled for. you want a better power play? How about a point shot? Or a PMRHD to complement Quinn. Most of our problems are holes in the lineup. There isn’t this drastic variation in systems across the league like many imply. We need some very big pieces to become a better team, coaching will do little to change that. I see people complain about us just dumping and chasing all the time. Is green supposed to implement a puck possession style with the bottom 6 he has? It’s all about fitting the style with the players you have. That goes for the forwards and the D. We need an identity. We don’t really have one.

He seemed to try to do too much at times. This created some pretty epic turnovers. You don’t need to pull out your little analytics charts to show me how wrong I am either. He was acquired for basically nothing. I loved the trade and still love the trade. I like the player, I was over the moon when we got him. After watching this season I don’t think he is a fit. What exactly is wrong with having this view? What substance do I need to form this opinion? I watched the games, saw him play and here I am.

You’ll blindly defend anything lord benning acquires. I do love this trade, he gave up very little to land a good too 4 d man. IMO it just isn’t a fit for him here and there is no reason to be bashful about pointing that out.

I didn’t say he wouldn’t be. Compadre

He was an utter disappointment. I think he was probably propped up by Vegas’ system and deep forward group. He made stupid decisions and looked completely overwhelmed. You can blame the coaching staff till you’re blue in the face but they can’t coach him out of throwing waffles to eleven in the upside down world and expect to win hockey games. Schmidt was completely exposed here.