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  1. Toffoli isn’t comparing a different organizations failures to our organizations methods of team building to prove that signing a $30M bottom 6 is essential or you’ll be Buffalo. Toffoli actually played on this team last year And we gave futures up for him last year and he signed with another team for a year longer than the Roussel contract. Toffoli probably Benning’s most embarrassing moment as a GM and this happened LAST season. Lol
  2. A lot of people are just flat out done with hockey. I mean, I want Jim to do good. I want him to learn from his mistakes but he never does. With or against JB, you need a marketable GM. Outside of CDC which is this weird Pro Benning ecosystem, most fans are very ready for a change. If the majority, it’s very close. When you have that many people displeased with your product you’re going to get hit in the wallet. I wholeheartedly believe that he isn’t capable of fine tuning the roster into a cup contender. He just doesn’t have the ability to make that chemistry. Look at how many bombs he has had in that department. There is no indication that shows a break in that trend.
  3. If we didn’t have Sutter, Beagle, Roussel, Holtby, LE and ole long Neck we be at the very least where we are today as far as organizational prospect depth. We would be on par at the very least but most likely even deeper. AND we would have infinite cap space last year and this year. Imagine having this core with $20M in cap space. We missed a once in a lifetime bargain period because of how irresponsible Jim’s cap management was. Winning environment..... lol I don’t want to hear another word about a winning environment. This isn’t a winning environment guys. There is absolutely no proof that this outrages use of salary cap on the players mentioned above had any tangible influence on player development. Has anyone here ever played hockey? Think back to your development. Did you learn from a guy you were trying to displace from the roster or the coach telling you and showing you what you did wrong. Will a couple bargain bin vets help your young guys adjust to the league? Absolutely, do you need to spend like $30M on that? I don’t think so. when I hear excuses like poor Jim, Luongo, poor Jim Flat cap. I just shake my head. How bout poor young emerging core that’s surrounded by hot garbage clogging roster spots for emerging prospects.
  4. As much as I disagree with a lot of what Jim Benning has done I’m also a fan of the team he runs and I genuinely want him to succeed. His success is our team’s success. I have my doubts but want nothing more than to eat my words.
  5. I have a drinking problem ole boy, remember, I black out then can’t figure out why I can’t login the next day.
  6. I feel like I have a learning disability here, is this funny? I need more.
  7. How Demko will adjust without Clark will be one of the biggest factors. He honestly has potential to be our franchise player and if he continues his upward trend we could have a spot.
  8. Only orca jersey I have, and the only orca jersey I’ll ever have. I got it after he beat the brakes off Hal Gill.
  9. I wish I could buy that. Every time Jimbo gets $5 of cap space his pen comes out of his top pocket. looks like we got some cap space, any salt and pepper haired UFA’s out there to kill penalties for $4M/ a year?
  10. I’d throw, handcuffed to the cap for the next 2 years as a Qualm
  11. Toffoli claimes he never even made an offer, hahahaha. Then Jimbo said he ran out of time. Seriously Jim, shoot him a text while you’re taking a crap or something. You can do 2 things at once.
  12. Haha, hey Bo Horvat I’m going to show you how to be a leader with my 5 points on the forth line. This is how you become a pro bro. Scoring only technically wins you games. The real win is trying really hard with no results.
  13. 1. You make a lot of assumptions in your prospect pool to load up your Narrative. Lind and Podz? You really going to write them down on your core column? Settle down buds. 2. Benning didn’t choose anything. He had no choice. Well, I guess he choose Virtanen over Toffoli who in a recent interview said he wasn’t even offered a contract. 3. You sound like a QAnon supporter the day after Biden was inaugurated. Your little “insulation” theory sounded pretty promising at first but it has absolutely no merit whatsoever. They sucked for the vast majority of this “winning culture” I would actually argue that it’s held back prospects in their development. Healthy competition doesn’t happen when you gotta pay a 4th line plug or sit him. Those bottom 6 spots should be there for player development not for overpaid vets to go out to pasture. How many guys do you need to insulate a team? Like what’s the ratio? What %of your cap should be reserved for players who get paid to produce nothing but a great locker room presence. The answer is $0. If you can’t produce then why are you playing in the NHL? Let’s spend money on players that score, how bout that?
  14. Ok, What are we rebuilding in then? Lol The excuses are tiresome the comparisons are tiresome. I don’t care how you rebuild, I really don’t. Just know what you’re actually doing. The difference between Buffalo and Colorado is management. The method was the same. Jim tried to rebuild on the fly without a core. That hasn’t been done since the Brian Burke leafs.
  15. Of course he was on board with it. Listen, my point is you don’t become one of the richest dudes in Canada by wasting money. He is a business man first. If Jim is his portfolio manager, he isn’t getting return on investment. His good stocks aren’t outperforming his bad ones and for that simple reason, he will cash in and look to give someone else that money to manage. It’s not a hidden agenda. Jim said, I want to rebuild while spending to the cap and staying competitive. Linden said full rebuild. FA thought he could take a shortcut with Jim’s plan so he went with that and here we are. Handcuffed to the cap, at the bottom of the league and no EP’s or QH’s in the stable waiting to bail them out. We have a core that’s ready to build around but we can’t cause we spent that money before we had the core. This is honestly the worst run canucks team in +20 years.
  16. Nope, sorry. He is too cheap to resign Ian Clark or hire a high dollar coach with NHL experience. Jim’s proposal was a magic show that fooled ownership. This was the disconnect with Linden. Now FA is looking at his ticket revenue $0 and the money he is spending (the Max) and sobbing. We lost Bracket, we are losing Clark and now someone is going to pay for FA losing all this money. I bet he starts with the one who was in charge of spending it.
  17. Didn’t he tell FA to hire Gillis? We can’t afford anymore JB contracts. He built a decent core but this next phase isn’t his strong suit. Courts is advising or helping FA find a replacement. Sorry Benning Bros 14 is the kiss of death.
  18. GMJB would’ve been a great bargain bin, full rebuild, cap floor GM. He did not build to his strengths. Anyone who says Aquilini MADE JB spend to the cap seriously needs intense, professional, psychiatric intervention. The Aquilini‘s don’t even give their immigrant workers water, do you seriously believe they’d reject a proposal of a cap floor rebuild? After the Sedin’s? HahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahahaHahahahaha that’s funny.
  19. A RHD or Centre, we have enough LHD that can’t shoot the puck hard to dress a football team.
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