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  1. For reference, Dahlen didn't demand to be traded. Unless you guys think he is flat out lying in an interview where he can easily be disproved by anyone from the Canucks organization. Typical Canucks forum to be extremely biased whenever we trade away players. https://www.fearthefin.com/2019/2/27/18242765/2019-nhl-trade-deadline-jonathan-dahlen-vancouver-canucks-jim-benning-san-jose-sharks-barracuda FTF: If I could clear up some things then, did your agent ask for a trade? JD: No, I don’t think so. We had a little stuff down there in Utica where I really wanted to feel good about myself and have confidence in my game and play well. I don’t want to say anything bad about anybody, but I didn’t feel too good about my hockey game there. To be honest, I just want to put it behind me, and I’m really excited to work with the great coaching staff here who have already made me feel a lot better about myself. I’m really ready to get going here and work hard and just be happy and love to play hockey. FTF: Jim Benning said some young players these days don’t want to “pay their dues” to make it to the NHL. He was referring, in part, to you. Was that a fair assessment from him? JD: I don’t know. To be honest, I’m just excited to be here and work hard and try to get to the next level. But first of all, I want to be a good player in the American Hockey League. I haven’t even put my eyes on the NHL yet, I just want to play in the [AHL] first and make a good impression there. Obviously, you can’t jump over a step, and that’s not what I want to do either because that would just look terribly wrong if I’m in the NHL and not good enough. I’m trying to develop my game here in the [AHL] and become a good player there first before I even think about taking the next step. FTF: Benning also said the discrepancy between your camp and the Canucks was that your camp thought you should be in the NHL at some point this year. You’re saying that wasn’t a fair portrayal? JD: No, I want to be a leading player in the [AHL] and play there. I was trying really hard in Utica to earn minutes in key situations and working really hard to do it. But I’m just happy to be here and I want to try and earn minutes here with the Barracuda. It’s not like I have any eyes on the NHL yet because I’ve got a lot to work on to get there, for sure. FTF: What was challenging about Utica? JD: It’s a hard question. It’s a great group of guys there. Great teammates. They’re really nice, everybody there. Great captains and vets and everything. Had a Grade-A experience with the team there. I’m just happy to get a fresh start now. Try something else. Try to feel good about myself again. Get confidence.
  2. A handful of players are playing at their best Horvat/Boeser/Roussel/Motte/Strecher/Hutton/Markstorm, so your point is contradicted.
  3. Maybe Goldobin mishandled Goldobin... Stop blaming everything on the coach.
  4. rofl... so Seabrook waives so he can be put in LTIR in his hometown. lol.
  5. Yeah those are value generating trades. He concentrated too much on forward though. There's probably no market for trading for a young defensemen, look at the Hall trade. He shoulda went all in the UFA market and sign a dman or 2. Overpay, who cares, a great dman goes a long way to solidify our team.
  6. Because that's exactly why Benning is a poor GM in trading. Duchene was also very difficult to trade, he created so much crap to demand getting traded Forsberg who is usually quiet openly criticized him. Yet Sakic is able to land a monster deal for Duchene - this is what a good GM can navigate and deal the best value for his team; it literally took like 1 1/2 years to trade Duchene. All Benning had to do was hold onto Kesler, time will pass, opportunties woulda opened with TDL, draft with other teams offering deals. Benning was just impatient to leave his mark on the team and open a new page and dealt Kesler for pieces that we now have nothing to show for. Kesler was the one with his time running out, Benning had the cards in his hands and didn't know how to play it.
  7. Missing the point again. Result is everything. If your so called "wins" are any good, we would be a better team currently, not #7 counting from the bottom and up. Hes been our GM for 5 years you know, all those "wins" and we are still a crap team?
  8. Just cause I am pointing out you are way overpraising Benning's trades, doesnt mean I am critcizing them. Get some logic.
  9. So hes turned us from an AHL team to a bottomfeeder NHL team and you are praising him like a bandit? Is that what it is? rofl..
  10. How's he a bandit? We are still a bottomfeeder with all those mediocre players.
  11. Imo Leafs just lucked out with Matthews(#1) and Marner(#5) being exceptionally good. It was not their method of rebuilding that's gotten them here.
  12. Why use the Leafs as an example? Why not use Boston, tampa bay and etc? The league have 30 teams ya know
  13. Are you living from 15 years ago? More people peak at 24 nowadays then they do 27.... check the stats of all the top players in the league
  14. its like Benning is secretly on Penguin's payroll. Helping their playoff runs whenever possible.
  15. lol why are you so mad? Are you Benning's son or superfan? Stop insulting me and have some respect. I posted facts which you obviously dont agree with. Great, post your own opinion. Get some class, lol.
  16. Mccann and a high 2nd turned into Pearson... If you go back further, Kesler (in his prime and cap friendly 5mil per year) and a 2nd round pick turned into Sutter, Pearson, and 3rd round pick.
  17. lol man up, stop throwing random attributes and implying. Are you trying to say Karlsson is better than Dahlen? We can see in a year.
  18. Gets same contract as Kucherov... Lockout incoming... But why is this news, I read about this contract on TDL right after he was traded.
  19. Karlsson is a downgrade from Dahlen no matter how you look at it. Not to mention we dont need more 2 way forwards (look at our lineup's lack of offense), we need more goal scorers and playmakers. This trade is just a head scratcher... Should've just held onto the kid until the summer and look for the right trade.
  20. Hes playing 20+ minutes and on their PK. How is that #5 defensemen and not shutdown D...? Did you bang your head or something?
  21. They paid a lot for Hartman, and he is young. I guess they didnt like what they saw from him after 1.5seasons...?
  22. You dont move someone for the sake of moving someone, you need the timing and right trading partner. Moving Gudbranson leaves glaring holes in our defensive line up and makes our team is even softer now. Adding Pearson literally does nothing for our team, the dude was already being moved around like a used car before this trade. Now answer me, how are we going to plug our defensive gap for the rest of the season and next season? How about team softness with our super soft team, we just traded away our toughest player.
  23. So as a GM you create maximum value from him in a trade. And dont trade him until you do. Duchene wanted out for years, Av's GM waited for the right trade and got a boat load for that team. So basically, Benning bowed to the player?
  24. Horrible, random, horrible trade. Trade away Dahlen who we've been developing nicely for some unknown kid who looks like he wont even make the AHL team.
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