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  1. Amen. She probably won't tell the media openly that she's in contact with other clubs' protected players either. Can't be worse than Benning
  2. No they don't hit, it's considered illegal. It's not played the same way when you can skate through the middle with your head down and don't need to worry about having your career ended, and being forechecked isn't scary as a d-man because you aren't getting crushed into the end boards etc. Far different mental and physical game. She played at the highest women's level, which is equivalent to Midget AAA boys. Nobody is saying they know more than her, they're just saying the women's game is a lot different, because it is.
  3. That's a pretty weak suspension. It baffles me how people just label all "punches" as equal, like every punch is a concussion-giving knockout. It was a weak glove punch to a player with a helmet on. The same helmet that is supposed to protect you from 100MPH slapshots. Then he tapped his full face cage with his stick...oh the horror
  4. Hockey is hockey? The women's olympic teams practice against boys Midget AAA and often lose. They play without hitting for gods sake.
  5. Yeah I'm watching and we're out of the playoffs again. This is just a list of players Benning acquired and who didn't get us to the playoffs
  6. We've had a slew of veterans on this team every season under the Benning regime, overpaying for most of it, now the leadership may have helped but we lack talent because of young assets given up and money spent in FA and refusal to move vets out at deadlines etc
  7. You know what really doesn't make sense? Trading developing assets for a fully developed player(s) when your team isn't close to competitive enough. You can thank Sir Jim Benning for that
  8. I think that was Pettersson's best game of the year. Finally no fumbling of the puck, he was physical and wasn't getting knocked down and won a few battles against bigger players, he took the puck to the net and scored which is scary to do for someone who only weighs 170 pounds(he really needs to pack on 10 pounds of meat this summer), he was getting shots on goal from different angles(had 4 and could of had a few more easily, he's had wayyyy to many games where he's only had 1 SOG or less) , he was white on rice backchecking like the good old days. It helped that Hogs and Pods played good as well. Those two need to develop, it's actually quite crucial for this to happen for the sake of the future of this club
  9. That kid can still slingshot that puck with the best of them
  10. Wow the Yotes are 9-2-1 against us in the last 12!?
  11. You don't bring in 7+ million dollar players to be spectacular defensively. You could resign Tanev to do that and still have a huge chunk of money left over As of right now OEL has been a disappointment.
  12. He's a 7.25 hit on pace for 17 points, he's 30 and has 6 years left. This is undoubtedly one of the worst contracts in the league right now and it can't really be debated. Guys with good fancy stats and that keep pucks out of the net make 2.5 - 5 and put up the same offensive numbers or better.
  13. Same for Utica, they made the finals when they had a team full of Gillis prospects (14/15) When Benning took over, literally the whole organization fell apart. Kind of funny, Utica for New Jersey for one season they are now already tops in the AHL being led by young players...Abbotsford for Vancouver for one season teetering in mediocrity near the bottom of the standings being led by old players. Coincidence I guess
  14. Thanks for this. It's a results driven business and the results truly show how dark of a time it was. The results, his poor interviewing skills, his communication/PR, his coaching hires, the money spent, the worst contract given out in team history(LE), what he left behind for us... just everything was and is absolutely atrocious. Easily one of the worst GM's to ever do it
  15. Boeser's QO in 7.5 mil. He will be making that as a minimum next year. This could be a large problem OEL and Pettersson have been the ultimate cripplers this season. 15 million for 33 points combined. Astonishingly bad
  16. If Benning really won that many trades we would be much better off with results to back it up but unfortunately the fact of the matter is we bled assets with him at the helm for years and only have a few top tier pieces to speak of and even some of those now are in question(Pettersson). Our NHL club isn't great, our AHL club isn't great, we have nearly nothing in the prospect pipeline, we're against the cap still somehow and we've got another large anchor it seems in OEL. Most of those trades you declared wins are actually losses in my opinion. It was death by a thousand cuts, trying to speed up the process, trading picks and prospects for older players was a massive failure and is always the wrong thing to do, it gets proven time and time again. Even his : "wins" like the Miller and Toffoli trades aren't really wins when you consider we gave up young assets to acquire players aged to compete when we clearly weren't ready. 3rd for Derek Dorsett2nd for Linden Vey3rd for Andrey Pedan2nd for Sven Baertschi5th (+ Zack Kassian) for Brandon Prust2nd (+Bonino) for Brandon Sutter (+3rd)6th (+Nicklas Jensen) for Emerson Etem5th for Philip Larsen2nd (+Jared McCann) for Erik Gudbranson4th + Pedan(3rd) for Derrick Pouliot7th for Marek Mazanec1st + 3rd for JT Miller2nd (+Tyler Madden) for Tyler Toffoli3rd for Nate Schmidt (recovered)4th for Madison Bowey (+5th)3rd for Jason Dickinson1st + 2nd + 7th for Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Conor Garland This is an immense amount of sacrificed future with nothing to show for it, during a time we should of been adding picks and prospects. It's actually incredibly depressing, I think Benning should go down as the worst GM in the teams history. His results and winning % even show it so how the original post is getting so much support is quite astonishing.
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