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  1. It also could have been said about a long list of reclamation projects who flamed out of the NHL. For every Motte there is 10 Etem, Vey, etc. Trading skill for grinders never turns out well. You sign guys like Highmore. You dont trade offensive minded younger players for them. Well, at least smart GM's dont. They are far more easily replaceable than someone who can actually score.
  2. I understand that people need to believe Highmore is some great untapped player to justify a pretty bad trade. But he isnt. He is like several other bottom 6 guys who simply dont move the needle for the team at all. In his games in Van he has been given a lot of ice time and has not showed anything yet. Will he? Maybe. But the odds are he is what he is and simply cant hustle his way past his lack of skill.
  3. Sutter and Hamonic only make sense on shorter term, low dollar contracts. Hamonic has at most 4 teams he is willing to play for and has already been through 2 of them. That needs to limit his next contract for sure. Highmore is not the answer. If you actually watch him yes he hustles but he also has very limited offensive ability and regularly blows his coverage in the defensive zone or overcommits. I would not say he is better than average defensively at this point. Maybe he improves but I just dont see anything from him to suggest he is worth keeping long term.
  4. The easiest changes to make are going to be management and coaching. Thats where the team should start but likely wont.
  5. There you go adding facts. How annoying. Confident, capable coaches don't shoehorn players into ill fitted roles. They put players in the role and with linemates who can maximixe their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Confident, capable managers do not build rosters where their coaches have no choice but to play guys in ill fitting roles.
  6. The Tryamkin thing is tough for me to classify as disappointing, a JB fail, or a blessing in disguise without details of the contract offer. Looking at what Benning has paid out for some players, I dont think a 1 year 2 mil deal as an example would necessarily have been the end of the world for Tryamkin. This feels a bit like a "But we will need those dollars and spot in the lineup to re-sign Edler" decision on the surface. We will see I guess. I like Edler but he has significantly regressed. Tryamkin was probably the only dman Benning could sign to a reasonable deal who could take over the physical, defense first stuff that would allow Edler to walk. At this point Edler is not worth much more than 1 yr, 2 mil imo. I would rather see him go play for Tampa Bay like all our other nordic dmen do lol.
  7. It was reported that he practiced while awaiting his test result. So who exactly would be responsible for that decision? Him?
  8. There might be more to the covid story. But here's the thing. Even if Gaudette was the first to get it, the team is likely just trying to scapegoat him to take most of the blame. But there was plenty to go around from my understanding. Players get tested daily. The team apparently ignored protocols to let Gaudette on the ice while awaiting his test result. This gets sugar coated a lot. The Canucks put their entire team in the position to interact with soneone who had covid. Had they waited for the result the spread likely would have been much more contained. The Canucks wont tamp down the "traded him cause of covid" whisperings because it gives them cover for their own organizational &^@# ups.
  9. He had 33 points in 59 games on a not very good team playing limited minutes with not exactly offensive minded linemates. Even this year, playing with streaky at best offensive linemates on a truly awful team, he was still generating a decent amount of offensive chances, the puck just wasnt going in the net. A vast majority of NHL players can be described as inconsistent offensively. On the Canucks, EP, Hughes, Miller, Boeser, and possibly Horvat could be described as consistent offensively. But their usage also makes it easier to be consistent. Everyone else can be described as anywhere from non-existent to inconsistent. Highmore is non-existent offensively and not even that good defensively (he blows his assignments a lot if you actually watch). To see him getting 16 min a game and top 6 shifts boggles my mind. He would likely not be in the lineup regularly on very many if any other teams in the NHL. He was a regular scratch in Chicago.
  10. Imagine another coach realizing that Gaudette's strength is offensively not defensively and putting him in a scoring type role with players who can help him maximize his strengths and minimize his weaknesses. 4 points in 3 games. It seems to be working. Highmore has very little offensive talent. Why is he getting 15 or more minutes and mostly defensive zone starts on a team that cant score? Could part of it be the Canucks are stuck in their own zone a ton since starting play again? The fact he is getting that many minutes is an indictment of just how $&!#ty overall this roster is.
  11. No player, young or vet, should be handed anything. Thats where our philosophies differ. Other than Sutter and Motte, none of the waiver wire guys or other "energy" guys have shown any striking ability that should gift them a spot in the lineup over some of our young guys waiting for a chance. The only advantages to being a bottom feeder team are getting a high draft pick and having the no pressure flexibility to give young guys some responsibility and see what they do with it. Lind getting a look is great. But what about Rathbone as an example? When you are losing games like the Canucks are and not scoring, it seems to make sense that a few young guys wont make things much worse. Chatfield is a guy I am not very impressed with. Would rather see some of our other D. Rathbone, even Bowey. This roster is going nowhere and doing the same things over and over expecting things to change isnt a solid plan, its insanity.
  12. I dont disagree on most of this. I think given his strengths and weaknesses though it probably should have been pretty obvious early on his future would be as a winger. I was lukewarm about Green but since covid he has irritated me a lot in his interviews. He seems lately like a guy who feels he has no accountability for fixing what is wrong and is already thinking about his next coaching gig.
  13. I have zero confidence that Benning will not mess up the cap space he is going to have after some of his previous bad contracts come off the books if he is given the opportunity. The team has no identity. No cohesive plan in how to build out the support players effectively. I would like to see what a new GM and new coaches would do.
  14. Probably a better chance if they didnt drive his value into the ground by miscasting him as a 3c himself.
  15. Then good luck being competitive for a cup. Highmore has shown pretty much nothing of substance so far.
  16. Then you pump his value and trade him for a 3c, not a 4th line lw
  17. He never had any true extended look in the top 6. Contending teams have a bottom 6 that can chip in offensively too.
  18. I said from the start the team trying to shoehorn him into the 3c spot was a massive mistake and short sighted thinking. It doesnt maximize his strengths and minimize his weaknesses. It does the opposite. His future should have been as a winger. Having said that, you lose EP and based on the above why not try the guy on the wing with Miller and Boeser? At best you get some offense out of him, at worst he does nothing there and you can still trade him for an energy 4th liner who doesnt move the needke at all in any zone. The Hawks are using him on the wing. On a 3rd line with skilled linemates. And he is producing there. Finding the right role and the right linemates makes a huge difference.
  19. This has been an issue in Vancouver for literally over a decade now.
  20. Honestly I have been pretty lukewarm about needing to replace Green but this post game kind of gave me a hard shove into supporting him not being brought back. He was asked some legit questions. To be dismissive about it and say he doesnt know the answers rubs me the wrong way. He is paid to know what to do to get the team scoring. To be so arrogantly facetious just tells me its time for a new voice.
  21. Highmore has done sweet &^@# all. He takes up space and ice time without adding anything substantial at either end. While we are slagging the defensive effort of a guy like Gaudette, I am sure everyone caught Highmore blowing his coverage on Matthews right before his second goal, right? Right? Oh ya, no one will admit that.
  22. Having a few vets is a good idea. Overpaying a whole bunch of them gets you a bottom feeding cap maxed team. Its no easy feat to be both of those at once for several seasons.
  23. Funny how earlier some were saying it proves Benning right about signing Pearson to that bad contract cause he has scored.
  24. Saw someone post earlier that Pearson scoring was a big f you to those questioning his signing. That means its fair to say Gaudettes 4 points in 3 games is a giant f you to the Canucks for trading him for a plug.
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