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  1. Huh. The girl, based on very limited information, sounds like she consented to the whole arrangement, up until she didn't. It's her right, of course, to be able to stop at any point. The person with the power and the wealth to do this will always be in the wrong, no matter what. That being said, I don't believe her when she comes out and tells people "it's not about the money". “If my guys send u funds will u spend it on/keep it for yourself?” Katz allegedly wrote. “And just between us? Even though u r wise beyond your years given our respective ages it would be taken the wrong way.” Katz is painfully aware of the age differences, and is also well aware of how bad it would look at the time, given their age differences and situation. Is it shady? Yeah. But it also sounds like that the girl, or the girl's family at the time, were enablers of their own situation. Again, this is all very limited info. But since the project was passed over, her allegations seems suspect. “Humphries was literally a child prostitute to a billionaire,” the claim alleges, “and her mother assisted her in laundering the money she was paid and in trafficking her to Katz.” It's just gross all around, based on this text. The girl, the mother, and Katz.
  2. Nah. Why would there be a need to have two threads that ostensibly would be talking about the same topics? And lmfao at your quip about "censorship". This is not anywhere CLOSE to censorship. People whining about this have zero clue what they're talking about.
  3. This is cherrypicking at its best. Love how you deliberately ignored the other picks. Lmfao, why is Hoglander and Woo involved in this? Gadjovich was a great pick, no matter how you spin it. Unfortunately, the assets being traded away, sometimes due to a poor coach selection, is the reason why things got neutralized.
  4. Why is this apparently on Benning, meanwhile Gillis gets a free pass for: 1) not drafting an NHL goaltender with any pick 2) not drafting an NHL defenseman with any pick 3) not being to replace Edler, who was drafted well before Gillis did 4) no succession plan after the Sedins 5) being only able to draft with two of his first round picks, and not even all of them that he had. Gaunce and Jensen were total flubs. The missing depth from the 2nd round to 7th round picks. Yikes. My point is that you're missing these players from this period that would've helped for the next GM.
  5. Drafting/development. It was missing under the Gillis regime and the lack of players from that time period have a very real impact today. To ignore this is silly as hell.
  6. https://canucksarmy.com/2022/05/08/ryan-johnson-jett-woos-performance-identity-abbotsfords-blue-line/ “We were playing eleven forwards and seven defencemen, and to give him some more [ice time], and [to get him] involved. Using his assets, his speed and physicality. He embraced the role to play some minutes up front and ended up doing a fantastic job with it,” explained Johnson. Woo found himself on the scoresheet once over the final nine games of the regular season, a primary assist on a tiebreaker goal against who else but their playoff nemesis, the Bakersfield Condors. Through those nine games, Woo held a negative-2 goal-differential at 5v5 with ten shots on goal. Woo did not fare well during the short-lived playoff series against the Condors. Bakersfields’ speed ate the Canucks alive, ad nauseam. Woo finished the playoffs with three shots on goal in game one and zero in game two, while on-ice for zero goals-for and all three goals-against in the Canucks’ game two loss that ended their season. Despite Johnson’s earlier praise of Woo’s tenure as a forward, he remained steadfast in his media availability that the plan moving forward was to get Woo back to the blueline where he belongs. “We expect Jett to have a big summer; come back having learned a ton [from] his experience this year and take another step forward. Ultimately, we see him being back on the blueline and continuing to grow in that position.” After a challenging season, the question becomes, can Jett Woo’s next step take him beyond anything more than a gritty bottom pairing AHL defenceman? Does NHL potential remain?
  7. He's the next upcoming defenseman. Had a pretty decent AHL season, all things considered, while playing important AHL minutes/situations.
  8. Rathbone's issue is his defensive play, but we'll have to see how it is this coming season. He has a ton of offense, but he is currently a defensive liability. Hughes, on the other hand, was much better in that regard, but even he had his own question marks.
  9. This was a major problem before Benning arrived. The previous bozo before Benning couldn't draft a single defenseman or goaltender. Benning, while flawed, had successfully drafted several good picks for defenseman, which includes Hughes and Rathbone, with Woo probably going to make the team at some point. When good players make the team, which we have several of them in the roster, it is a bad observation to say it is a "completely empty" pipeline. Lmfao.
  10. What makes him not qualified to be an A-list actor? He's done a number of roles, many of which has distinguished him from the rest. He has done both action and non-action (drama - see A Few Good Men, for example) that showcase is full traits. He's also a distinguished director/producer, but neither of those have anything to do with acting. He's won three Golden Globes (which he's supposedly returned to the Hollywood Press) There is no "sort of" as an A lister.
  11. Tom Cruise is absolutely an A list actor. There's no freaking doubt about it.
  12. Devils are taking a page from Benning on this one. I'm really not sure if this is a good signing from the beginning.
  13. Brad Hunt was not nearly the plug that people thought he was. We just had incompetent coaching in Green that didn't use him well.
  14. When we were winning, MG seemed like he turned things around. And he did, but lots of people won't admit the price that he made the team pay for winning was far too high. The lack of young prospects during that regime really set the team back many, many years. It would require the next incoming GM to nail every single draft pick in order to recoup the losses. 2016, obviously, was a mediocre year, at best, for that incoming GM.
  15. Funny you say this - both those players were drafted by the previous regime - not in the first round, but the 2nd round and below. It's interesting that these "young controlled assets", especially these types of players that you mentioned, were never found in the other regime that you struggled to find fault in. Suddenly, assets matter now for you? It's a little ironic that when we need to "fix the defense" that we had Edler for a very, very long time because a certain GM wasn't able to draft any 'needle moving' players beyond the first round. It's beyond inexplicable that you had defended that same awfully run management with regards to drafting/development that you were unable to see just how bad the situation was for the Canucks, with respect to the futures. I'm saying that Gillis' poor drafting/development has to be re-examined here. Sure, Benning could've fixed the defense (and he didn't, until it was too late), but now that so many years has gone by, that prospect during Gillis' time period would now be a veteran D man. But not a single 'needle moving' player is in the NHL today, minus Horvat. Truly, the Canucks are still paying for that massive void in draft development from many, many years ago. This is about admitting the consequences from not drafting any good young players, minus Horvat and Hodgson. It takes previous GMs to do something to help the current regime. Sakic had a ton of help with the previous tanking, for example, but he really did it himself in the later years. Obviously, Benning didn't have the same kind of impact.
  16. Nah.

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    2. Dazzle

      Dazzle

      He just said someone's political affiliation should never be used to 'ruin their credibility' etc etc.

       

      ...then he references SPECIFICALLY people from a certain political spectrum. It's this apparent polarization that makes him such a hypocrite here.

    3. Master Mind

      Master Mind

      Seems odd to be making this status so many days after the referenced post, especially with the rule changes.

       

       

    4. Dazzle
  17. It's truly hypocritical for fans to be so excited with some minor action by the current admin, yet cast so much blame on the previous regime for doing not enough. This off season has really been entertaining. Still don't know how we can clear up space, cuz we made a decently big splash, and we don't know about our defense which apparently sucked lol
  18. You've missed the mark. This fanbase had been LIVID about Benning's failed FA signings, citing "too much money and too much term". They've also criticized that the roster was poorly constructed, among many other things. At the same time, the current regime has done next to nothing to change anything, save for two free agent signings with new and unproven imports. It's laughable that one cannot see the hypocrisy about the arguments made against Benning, while saying very little about this current regime's lack of moves. We didn't improve on defense, and there's been much talk about extending Miller (even though we could've made a MASSIVE profit). We could've been competitive, yet have an eye towards the future. That was the kind of return we could've gotten. Instead, we risk spending more money on a potentially aging player at a term that people are wary of. Yes, we truly have not learned our lessons as a fanbase.
  19. Can't believe we are talking about signing a free agent again for a long term, after trashing the previous GM for signing Player Name. We sure have short memories.
  20. Considering all the talk about improving the team, JR/Allvin has done zilch to roster moves, but the Senators have made some significant moves while reducing cap space.
  21. It's a little ironic because the previous regime's roster is STILL JR's roster.
  22. Abe has died, but I heard he's not a good man. He was totally cool with the Japanese Nazis and had celebrated their 'achievements'.
  23. Seattle's expansion draft was extremely underwhelming, and the selections they made here really didn't fit as well as their analytics team thought...
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