Dazzle

People choosing to remember the runs he had, rather than waking up to reality. Imagine having a rich kid spending his parents money, while finding no way of replenishing it. It was just as irresponsible, even if the comparison is admittedly not entirely accurate.

Gillis sucked, holy crap. He was good at supplementing his rosters, but he never found a way to draft a replacement player from the core players he was given. He had lots of chances in the draft, and made several risky trades, like the Horvat for Schneider one. He mismanaged Luongo/Schneider, and he also allowed Torts to bench Luongo in the winter classic. Gillis set this team really far back with his piss poor drafting and development. He didn't even draft a goaltender ala Demko in the second round. The dude doesn't deserve another GM job, despite his successes around 2011.

It really depends on what angle you're looking at. I can name two. Ron Francis and Dubas.

St. Louis?

He didn't even play Motte/Lamikko all that well. These players are heart and soul, and there wasn't enough from Green's systems that amplified them as role players. We saw a team with an identity last night. Green showed no such thing this season.

Green was spoiled silly with goaltending, kinda like WD was with Markstrom who was emerging. As soon as WD went to LA, his fate as a coach was kind of sealed. WD seems to be better at coaching the lower levels. Don Hay is a coach that comes to mind. Well known coach at the lower levels, but not good enough to move up.

Green was so bad that everyone on his roster sucked. That is on him and him only. People continuing to praise Green as a good coach (seriously? The record speaks for itself) is just ignoring reality. Boudreau with the same roster in one game has impressed most of the fans, whereas Green failed to do so at this point. We won one game recently with Green and there was relief. But there was never the sense of optimism. I also don't like how Benning/Green didn't talk about their own failings, especially Green. The smug look that Green has in-game or during press conferences really seem undeserving for a coach that has barely proven himself as legitimate. A 50/50 record isn't good.

Aquilini addressed it in his press conference that he doesn't involve himself in other jobs. We have to take it for what it is. Stan smyl stepped in right away to confirm that. Maybe it's just me, but Smyl is a very clever fox. Something about how he talked made me think he was brown-nosing.

Yeah, but unlike Green who is known for his dreadful bag drill, Boudreau looks like he's gotten his players on track, despite Green failing to do so for all these games. I get that it's only one game, but this one game is far better than whatever Green had come up with up to this point in the season.

Kind of weird but Chiasson didn't fit in Green's system, even though Green also overplayed him a lot. Green really reminds me of a WD, without the awesome first season. In hindsight, Green's coaching was the reason (at first glance) why this team became stale. The awful dump and chases, the poor strategy to reduce shot outputs, poor communication on how to maximize or improved players. Green looked like an AHL coach this season when he actually had good players.

This is something that Boudreau can say. Green and Benning were awful together. That being said, all these players were Benning's vision for the most part. He just let a terrible, unproven coach run his teams. First it was WD, and then it was Green. I think it was the coaching that really hurt Benning.

And that's the thing - Green never adapted to these players. It's so glaring when Green is playing a dump and chase stinker when he doesn't know how to maximize the use of the players. Green is a terrible coach. It's time people realized that.

Remember when we'd get hemmed in our zone and we'd surely get scored on? Our game management by players is so much better.

It's the second period where Green's systems die. Terrible period for Vancouver usually.

I know it's one game, but holy crap, this is a night and day difference.

Remember when we had a poor coach and we never knew what good coaching meant? Yeah....

Green's systems wereand always were mediocre. The amount of defense on his fifth year is hypocritical because Benning certainly didn't get the same treatment after Gillis.

I wanted the Canucks to hire a veteran voice. I was shocked that Green got extended, but was okay if the players were fine with him coming back. But as the preseason unfolded, along with the season games, it was clear as day to me by game 10 or so that Green and crew were not going to do the job. And if Benning thought Green should have stayed longer, then no, he is unfit to stay. That would have to be the final straw.

Green benched those players. The amount of mindgames he played. It's unreal.

Green is/was incredibly stubborn. I think it's also stubborn not to see how ineffective his coaching had become. People who say he is a good coach just has the blinders on.

Or better yet, playing Chiasson on the # 1 PP, even though Green could've put spark plugs like Podkolzin or Garland up there. Green's stubbornness made me really sour. People say Green is gonna get hired. No way.

Oddly enough, he buried the Garland trade from the positive column, and merely covered it with signings. Then he sort of expanded on the negatives, in a way that he didn't do with the positives. It's pretty clear the bias of this list lol.

I don't see how a ~.500 record warrants "high regard around the league". I mean, if I'm 50 percent right half the time, sign me up if I get props for that.

I am totally refreshed now that those two ppl are gone as well. Nothing against Baumgartner as a person; seems like a really nice guy, but his credentials shouldn't make him an NHL coach (yet).

Maybe Sekeres was wrong again. Maybe Horvat and Miller weren't arguing over Green. Maybe they were both sick of Green's antics.