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  1. meh, better to show a cat knows how to flush a toilet: But let's see one using a Bidet!
  2. We are never as good as we appear to be in a prolonged winning streak. Same obviously applies in a prolonged losing streak.
  3. Jim Benning is Alice? Alf was always talking about watching this show when he had one of the first TVs on the block.
  4. Yeah agree with him or not, you know that's how Cherry feels on various issues. Ron McLean seems to me to be a slimey politician.
  5. Teams often play better without their best player in the lineup. They all take it upon themselves to pick up the slack. Happens a lot in sports.
  6. Ron McLean is dusting off one of his old anti-Burrows speeches right now. First class A-hole (McLean).
  7. I wouldn't call Myers bad. Just overpaid. Still a #4D unlike the guy that cost us a 3rd line C/2nd line winger & a high 2nd round pick. At least Myers was a free agent signing (cost us no assets).
  8. Benning never had the two free reset buttons Gillis had (buyout with no cap hit).
  9. Three different GMs during those nine years. Though I suppose since Nonis was Burke's right hand man, you might consider them as one. Edit: stupid phone autocorrect lol
  10. The important thing when Benning started the job, he had essentially the full allotment of Canucks picks to work with. Gave him a better opportunity to work on his real skill (drafting)
  11. Lol. Ailing body because Green rode him like a rented mule. 60 starts for each of the past several seasons tends to do that.
  12. Team finished first overall in the league the following year. Near the end of that season, Duncan Keith gave Daniel Sedin an elbow to the head knocking him out essentially for the rest of the season and pretty much the postseason (no way was he remotely close to 100%).
  13. Then why give the 'ok' the contract in the first place (Luongo deal)? It was only declared non-kosher *after the fact*. At least with the original New Jersey contract, that's how they ruled.
  14. Like New Jersey has ever remotely spent close to the cap (to my knowledge)...making the cap recapture penalty meaningless to them. Where it hurt them originally was the picks (which the league lessened later anyhow).
  15. I think this tends to get overstated. I'm sure Weisbrod is a great schmoozer but I know who I'd rather have in charge (him or Benning).
  16. They can if they can shut-down the offensive dynamos on the other team (I take my chances with our goaltending vs most other teams). Problem is, the blueline can't do that.
  17. Sedins both were in the top 10 in points that season. They came back down to earth the following season (and so did the team).
  18. Dan Russell radio show was something I rarely missed listening to. That is until he didn't hide his hate when I think he got turned down for a Canucks announcer gig. But I'm going by memory and this was several decades ago.
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