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Dazzle

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  1. I have no idea what this management is thinking.
  2. Trade deadline is when you can maximize the price. Miller should've fielded tons of offers, but the Canucks do a half-hearted deadline.
  3. This is an utter failure by management. We are back to loving our players so much that we want to re-sign them for longer term. Motte for a fourth illustrates how mediocre the market is, even with an established player like him. But the reality is that the Canucks stayed Pat because they were not bold enough to make a push push, not were they fully committed to retooling with picks. Just an awful trade deadline. Trading Miller would've helped the team move forward. Instead, we risk lowering his value due to injury, or poor performance. The Canucks just cannot maximize its leverage. Anyone who rated this deadline as an A are smoking hashish.
  4. The fact that a player like Motte only for a fourth, but we paid a 3rd for Dermott. Makes you wonder if the new management is any better than the old regime. We are certainly not rebuilding, but we are not retooling either, in any meaningful way. Mediocrity is the name of the game with us.
  5. It's because management doesn't have the guts to rebuild. Same story with Gillis, Benning, and now JR. So much for the "vision" that people praised about JR. Soon we're gonna see people turn on JR after year 3.
  6. Miller is gonna be 30 soon, and we'll be signing him for 9 million for 6 years. Didn't we make the "mistake" with Player Name?
  7. We are going to remain a mediocre team, unfortunately.
  8. We risk losing Miller's value due to injury, or bad performance. Now was the time to cash out, and yet we did the most useless thing of adding to our lineup. Might as well trade a draft pick to solidify our top six too. Miller is worth so much... We could have a superstar prospect come in in a year or two. Instead, we are gonna have to sign Miller for something outrageous because we didn't want to let him go. We acquired him for a mid first round pick. Anything more than that is already a profit.
  9. I'm really interested to hear the excuses made to praise our new management for doing nothing, all the while moaning about Benning handcuffing us with contracts and downplaying the successes in Miller and our. prospects
  10. We have to realize that the team is satisfied with our roster, so much so that we added to our team, despite being five points out of a playoff spot. This team is gonna be forced to re-sign Motte, which means we'll have even less cap space. Miller is gonna cost us 9 million, or he'll walk away. You should be very disappointed in our management.
  11. No change to the roster, five points out of a playoff spot, a new LD for a third rounder, and a claimed forward. This management is clearly handcuffed by something, much like Benning, and probably Gillis.
  12. Gillis did little to help with the rebuild because he couldn't draft worth a damn. Even if he had these great ideas, he couldn't execute the way he wanted. We should not be standing pat. We are five points or so out of a playoff spot. This team is obviously not one or two pieces away from being a playoff contender. It's just hypocritical of people to point out that there's a "change" in philosophy when the core is still Benning's, and we are not looking to the future. We are trying to make the playoffs, and this makes us no different than the criticism that Benning has faced throughout his tenure.
  13. Let's do a quick reflection here. If the team was good enough, we'd be retooling, which would involve the shuffling of players, in the hopes of improving. We are apparently two years away though. Then we have to consider Miller, specifically with re-signing him. We also have Motte, plus the problem of re-qualifying Boeser, among other troubles. If the team was built well enough, then we'd be pushing for the playoffs, which oddly would imply that Benning did a good job constructing the team. However, if Benning was the root cause for the team's problems (as people love to claim), JR and company have the opportunity to sell off Miller (get a bunch of awesome prospects/return in the process), and start fresh. This is a much better position than what Gillis left this team in. No action, and we claim Richardson? Sorry folks, for those claiming that JR/All in would save the day, this is not happening. Motte is gonna walk, so we'll have Benning 2.0. We just spent a third rounder to ostensibly help us make the playoffs, and we are risking the devaluation of Miller, especially if we run the risk of injuring him. This team is not going anywhere for a while. We are not good enough to "stand pat". We have to be selling or buying. Given that we are doing nothing, we will get nothing.
  14. Like whom? Player Name? I don't think anyone could've foreseen how bad of a fit he'd be, from start to finish.
  15. If this were true, Francis would've taken on more draft picks than what he did. Apparently he turned down 2nd round picks and lower because he had set a ludicrous price for teams. This ended up handicapping himself/pricing himself out of the market. People can make excuses for Seattle's expansion draft, but selecting Bayruether for CLB, only to let him walk less than two weeks later is hilariously bad. This is just one of many blunders. Seattle tried to build itself defensively, but interestingly, they are at the bottom of the standings. I knew they were going to be bad just from looking at the start of it, and I'm no exec. People were lying to themselves that they were built well.
  16. Francis is a loser GM. What an absolutely crappy expansion draft, and a guy who is now trying to rebuild already.
  17. Funny how you completely ignored the state of the prospect pool. After several years of poor drafting under Gillis, did you really think this was not going to have a factor for the team? Kesler was a devalued version of what he was worth, and so Benning was obviously handicapped with the return. Why else were fans "booing" him for limiting the NTC to just two teams, with one of them being Anaheim? Markstrom, Horvat, etc, were decent pieces, but let's not forget: The Luongo/Schneider debacle. We traded a 1st for Horvat (good trade in hindsight, but incredibly risky). But ok, Edler was declining, and so were the Sedins. Tanev, Markstrom, and Horvat were a start. Yes, Benning should've rebuilt the team, as you said, but that hilariously means that the team was NOT prepared well by his previous GM. Why rebuild if the team was set up for success? Moreover, the prospect pool - if you look down the lineups of those teams, the fact that we got little/poor returns for the overrated/overplayed depth players speaks volumes about how poorly constructed the Canucks teams were. The reality was that the Canucks were a leaky faucet, and one particular GM - Gillis - particularly ignored the state of it. It's problematic when: Edler - was not drafted from Gillis, but rather inherited from the Nonis period. Are you freaking kidding me? Gillis couldn't draft a single depth defenseman that wasn't named Hutton? There was no succession plan for him, nor the Sedins. So much argument was made about Gillis "winning", therefore he didn't have lottery picks, but he did have lottery picks - two of them (Horvat, through trade, the only asset that he had in Schneider, along with Hodgson). The remainder of his high picks were thrown away through poor drafting. Yikes.
  18. I commend him for being a true fan by taking one for the team!
  19. The reasons we aren't in a playoff spot? Green. Through his five seasons, he never put the Canucks in a position for a playoff spot. Fact. The only reason the Canucks squeaked by during the bubble was due to COVID. The hole we were in was because of Green, and Boudreau's magical run wasn't enough to turn it around, despite being so close.
  20. I'd like to remind those posters who INSISTED Green was a qualified NHL coach, despite five seasons of mediocrity, that they are wrong. Benning's worst mistake has got to be keeping Green, which is unfortunate because his roster is reasonably better than what it had performed. I'd also like to point out all those pundits like Craig Button who kept pumping Green's tires were also dead wrong too. The bias was so strong. Both Benning and Green deserve criticism, not this one-sided criticism of GM JB, and the laundry list of excuses of Green "doing the best he could with the rosters he was given".
  21. The team's gotta think about selling tonight, but I feel like it's too late to do anything. What ends up happening is that we lose assets for nothing, either due to injury or just the fact that we can't afford them (ala Benning). Signing Miller makes no sense for a team that can't even beat Buffalo at home, and it was a MUST WIN game, if they hoped to make the playoffs. It was a good run, but we were simply too deep in the hole. The firing of Green came just a bit too late. Sell Miller to the highest bidder. Sell Motte. Rebuild/retool through the assets. Who knows? Maybe we'll surprise with a superstar prospect next year. It's not about panicking. A plan to re-stock the prospect pool is not a bad one.
  22. Believe what you want. If Stecher was clearly as valuable as you say he is/was, he wouldn't have fetched "just" a 7th round pick, no? There's a reason why Dermott is worth a 3rd, and Stecher is a 7th.
  23. Hasn't even played one game and you already can tell the future. Makes you wonder why the Canucks didn't get hosed more in this trade, if it was so obvious. Then again, maybe a third is an overpayment.
  24. This is it. The hypocrisy of this fanbase is on full display. No one said a bad thing about Vey (at the time) that was a proven AHL player for the Kings that looked like he was on the verge of breaking out. Baertschi did pretty good for the Canucks up until the injuries. All of a sudden, these trades became trash over time... suspiciously...
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