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  1. I am just a regular poster. Alflives is an elite poster.
  2. I actually saw a few Comets games involving the Canucks AHL affiliate and Rockford (Adam's team). He, to me, was noticably bad in that department (skating). So I'm not sure what happened to him from that pre-draft scouting report until that season in the AHL where I saw him. Injuries? I have no idea. The scouting report was right about his offensive skills (reason why he was able to stick despite that glaring weakness). Wasn't there a former Canuck player (*think* the acronym to his name was something like "M.A.B."?) was pretty much awful at everything but had a legit NHL skill level shot from the point. Able to eke out a bit of a NHL career despite those weaknessess because of the skill. He played around the time Gillis was GM I think? edit: I neglected to mention that I had no idea who the **** Gustav Forsling was at the time of the trade nor followed his time with the Hawks (I just assumed that part of the reason for him 'getting it' was due his head coach on the Black Hawks & Panthers [Coach Q]).
  3. I think we were all spoiled from Edler. He was a freak of nature developmental wise. From beer league, drafted in the 3rd round, to the NHL in a few years.
  4. My POV, it took him being reunited with his head coach in Florida (same head coach in Chicago that gave him a chance at the NHL level...played like half a season each year there).
  5. Don't believe ladies when they say size doesn't matter.
  6. You can get away with lack of skating ability (or even any defensive ability in the case of Jordan Subban, who actually was selected for a AHL allstar game like Clendening was as well) in the AHL. He was a losing scratch ticket moved for a unscratched ticket. Horrible pro evaluation. Failing to make the squad on a deep team (which the Canes did have back then - a deep blueline) is a far cry from sticking on a bad team (OJ for instance). We'll have to agree to disagree on this subject (if for no other reason, Forsling wasn't subject to waivers for several years when JB dealt him). Given the empty prospect/farm system Benning inherited from Gillis, he couldn't afford to take short-cut solutions. Or if he did, make sure that 'quick fix' is actually going to help the team.
  7. Gillis failings was that he didn't go "all in enough". Benning had the opposite problem. He didn't leave this successor much to work with on the farm. Neither of them had to deal with an environment where there was no cap and no green light to spend money. That's what Pat Quinn had to deal with and why I think with respect to Canucks GM history, there Pat Quinn and then there's the rest. I'll give Burke some honorable mention. Would've ranked him a solid #2 had he'd been able to get a goalie since he had to deal with the same limitations as Quinn.
  8. Slow news day:

     

     

     

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  9. Hogs was a 2nd round pick (fairly high 2nd as well - 9th in that round). lBatch was referring to later round picks. Forsling was a HUGE home run pick (5th round). But alas, Benning dealt him for a guy that could barely skate at the AHL level.
  10. As I said, one guy shows up in the postseason, the other guy doesn't.
  11. Because they'd have any interest even if he was free because he'd be paid 10 million cash? They just want warm bodies with a high cap hit but significantly less actual cash paid out.
  12. Just HHOFers. Ovechkin is a legend fellating Putin. Ovechpuke couldn't carry Marcel Dionne's jockstrap (and he also has no Cups)
  13. If we had such a player, I'd sooner put him with Hronek so we'd have a fairly strong top 4 (Hughes doesn't really need such a player though obviously it would help).
  14. That's the key. He's actually shown up in the playoffs for the Laffs. The two M brothers (Mathews & Marner) have done jack**** in the playoffs & jack left town.
  15. I don't know about that (re: blueline under JB). "Can't make chicken salad out of chicken manure" imho edit: I was too harsh, we had a good stockpile of #5 to #7 defensemen. They still weren't good but not ****.
  16. Howdy Russell Zitskey:
  17. That's actually how Corey Perry was able to get away with alot of stuff during his prime years. Did *so many* ticky tack stuff all over the ice, because he knew the refs weren't going to call all of the infractions (so the net effect would still give him a clear advantage). But yeah, we just ran out of healthy bodies (when Nolan Baumgartner had the call to get ready just in case you know it's friggin defcon 4 ) in Finals. Less so with everything else in that series.
  18. lol he sucks so it's fitting he plays for the Laffs. Him and the other M are a bunch of 'no shows'. Typical Laff move would be to trade the one of three that actually shows up in the post-season.
  19. Sounds like how Jim Benning was for us as a NHL defenseman. Exactly what the team needs. Short term deal, not too much money. Safe & reliable (and as someone said, not too flashy). Weird how JB was unable to get a player that played like him for 7 years. edit: correction, Schenn was such a player.
  20. Their food sucks & their coffee is like warm water with a crayon dipped into it. /end of thread
  21. Rivals Steve Jobs in promoting but man, would you get into his spaceship or ride one of his driverless cars? Guy can probably get that Zuckerberg twerp to submit in a MMA fight by just sitting on him.
  22. Somewhere in Canada Ryan Strome is yelling & cursing at you.
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