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  1. Seattle ain't the Arizona Yotes. They've got financial muscle. Hitting the cap floor will hardly be a problem for them. Wouldn't surprise me if they hit the cap ceiling in the efforts to be competative sooner rather than later.
  2. Myers is playing like a top 4 D for us. Holtby right now is a very overpaid nothing special 30+ year old backup. Unless Holtby ups his game, if I were Seattle, I’d know who I would pick.
  3. Good luck getting any coach of consequence under those terms. You'll get a hungry new guy in the minors looking to break in as a head coach in the NHL (but for eff's sake, enough with the rookie NHL head coaches for us Jim Benning) or a guy who should be sent to the glue factory looking for one last head coaching job. Think I'd still rather have Green than those options.
  4. Weird thing is a number of those guys eventually became Canucks (and it's not like they were all garbage; eg., Miller put in some good seasons here)
  5. I'm guessing, but players that have their contracts sort of 'lockout proof' (eg., they get a salary and a bonus payout in the offseason like Loui Eriksson's deal some years) get 100% of that bonus money.
  6. They don't overpay for their non-core players. Once a "supporting" player gets too expensive, he gets dealt. Not because he sucks or is bad but because he doesn't fit their structure. Laffs tried to follow that model except some of the core players suck. Case in point, Brandon Sutter. A capable 3C but got too expensive under the Pens salary structure model so they dealt him for a cheaper alternative (cap-wise). Then when Bonino got too expensive, they dealt him too. McCann will get dealt when/if that happens to him.
  7. I'm still waiting to bring my 8-track player out of mothballs. You just wait, it'll make a comeback!
  8. Prospect D take a while to develop. Even a phenom like Hughes has alot of work to do on the defensive side of things.
  9. how about?: (I'm kidding as I am not currently on the 'fire coach' bandwagon)
  10. Tanev is hardly chopped liver. He’s exactly the type of defenseman we lack the most right now. A great defensive defenseman vs a couple solid ones we currently have (one of whom is Edler). Tanev was 24 years old when Benning was hired as GM. Hamhuis was 2 years older than Schmidt. Edler was one year younger than Schmidt at the time. Bad drafting by Gillis left HUGE holes up front (which is what Benning fixed) but the blueline overhaul has been a failure by Benning during these years. Replacing these guys via trades have been less than good (and I’m being kind).
  11. I get told by the ladies that "size doesn't matter". While they secretly laugh at me behind my back.
  12. I'd argue they have two such players on their team (or at the very least two legit foundational players). That doesn't include the guy they traded away (who soon later won the Hart trophy) for a #4 D. Problem is, they are inept at building the team from the net to the blueline. Good thing for us.
  13. Flamers have had *FIVE* different head coaches since June 2014 (when Jim Benning was hired as GM of the Vancouver Canucks). I wager that's at least a major reason their franchise (Flamers) are just going in circles. Revolving door policy on head coaches is never a good thing.
  14. Injuries have taken there toll on his body. His first year for us was great. Loui Eriksson doesn't remotely have that excuse.
  15. heh, probably the number one reason for the cap being implemented is that the GMs can't help themselves. They need such a structure in place to help mitigate some of the stupid things they do.
  16. Everybody wanted a local kid to succeed. Unfortunately from what I remember, he had a pretty major dehibilitating desease which effectively ended that career aspiration.
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