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  1. Sens had to largely deal with an owner (correction, former owner) that didn't like to spend money (or couldn't). That's an issue that a GM has to work around. That isn't a problem in Vancouver. Coyotes? They're a running a NHL team on a Value Village budget.
  2. There must be some inside joke there somewhere ("exposing" in the post you replied to & "flashes").
  3. He had also to do it in a non-cap world when he wasn't allowed to spend to the level of a few of the other high spending teams at the time. Doesn't make your job impossible but it does make it more difficult.
  4. But, but, according to one poster (in another thread), Horvat < McCann & Boeser.
  5. It's less to do with right or left imho. Elon just doesn't like people criticizing him & buying twitter gives him some control over that. It's the reason why he called another perhaps the worst thing in the world (pedofile - in prison, those offenders are rightly viewed as the worst scum on the earth & treated as such by *ALL* other prisoners). Elon has a thin skin & reacts like a two year old when he perceives himself to be insulted.
  6. I think (unless I got him mistaken for someone else) Herter was another that suffered from the "Brendan Gaunce" syndrome. Kind of fairly solid in everything but didn't excel at anything.
  7. I mean it's not like Musk hasn't called someone a 'pedo' without cause.
  8. Unless I'm mistaken, Hodgson rose a bit (in terms of prospect rankings) after he was drafted by us. That wasn't the case of OJ. Again, I'm going by my memory.
  9. Truth be told, Alf still uses this (and wonders why he can't get online anymore):
  10. I was told in another thread that McCann + Boeser > Horvat.
  11. Well his work outside of drafting is iffy I'll grant you that. I have an even lower opinion of his "number two" John Weisbrod.
  12. I give the Canucks a pass always on goalie development issues no matter who the GM is. Schneider development under Nonis management. Lack under Gillis (sure he flamed out but he was a free agent signing & Benning was able to get a free asset for him (draft pick) & his career ended early because of injuries. Markstrom & Demko developed under Benning. Doesn't mean their perfect on this issue as they're only human.
  13. From another board: "After reading through the text messages made public in the lawsuit, Musks strategy appears to be based on his belief that Twitter is super employee heavy. He's basing that opinion on a metric in the tech industry of revenue per employee.Twitter's is running at about 25-40% the revenue per employee of other major tech and/or social media firms. This is where his idea to cut 75% of the workforce comes from. Cut the workforce and keep the revenue the same, instant success right? Where I struggle with this approach is that twitter's workforce is very engineer heavy. About 3000 of a total 7500 employees are in engineering, and twitter's codebase is apparently fucking immense. Parag told Elon by text that he had a few thousand coders writing 100 lines of code per month each or more. You don't just cut that by 75% and keep the product running."
  14. Damn, I might have to re-evaluate my opinion of Woo if he keeps it up in Abby: Never can have enough too many blueliners (he seems to be playing with some real purpose this season so far - good to see): Perhaps I was a bit too premature on my opinion of what we have on the farm.
  15. Nonis drafted Schneider (which enabled us to get Horvat) & also drafted Edler (who is STILL playing hockey today). Never had a 1st round pick higher than 10th (Luc Bourdon) compared to Benning who only drafted ONCE worse than 10th in the first round in seven years. Was only GM for four drafts. Signed Willie Mitchell via free agency > any defenseman that Benning acquired via free agency or trade in SEVEN YEARS. But best of all, he was able to hire a NHL head coach on his first try - Alain Vigneault. Benning? In SEVEN YEARS, he got the Canucks Willie Desjardins & Travis Green. Nonis > Benning.
  16. You know the hockey gods were trolling us when our blueline was literally a walking wounded except for one guy.....Salo in the 2011 Finals.
  17. I was like Icarus who flew too close to the sun only to have his "wings" melt. OK, that's about as literate as I'm going to get today.
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