Canucks and Detroit are similar in that they ran on fumes for a decade trying to prop up an old core.. in fact, Detroit ran on fumes for 20+ years. It takes much longer for teams to reboot completely from such situations.
Benning's prospect pool was literally bare when he got here, nothing with which to work, and everyone prancing around on their bloody my little ponies had NTC's! This is a great team on paper, and I believe that Green's gotta go before Benning's canned, because there's the workings of something special here.. but half a team of creative players are being told to play like freaking plugs, and it disgusts me. This is the least entertaining hockey in the history of this franchise, and it's not even close. No puck pursuit in the D zone, and simply "clogging lanes" is not bloody hockey. The book is out on Green's D zone system, and if the other team simply whips it around the outside, they are gonna get a HQ one timer chance nearly every single entry. It's disgusting to see statistics metastasize out on the ice.