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  1. A desperation trade is my guess too. Probably a young core offensive player traded for toughness in the bottom 6 and a depth left handed pk dman. You know, the things we had but dumped for nothing after camp? Anytime moves are made with no discernible long term advantage to the team other than saving the GM and coach’s jobs, it’s a sure sign you should replace your gm and coaches.
  2. If this can’t get a GM and coach fired, then we may as well admit we are no different than the old Oilers who valued having their former playing buddies running the team instead of competent people.
  3. Not sure why anyone thinks he has the aura of a potentially great coach: He is all talk, no action. Good coaches hold themselves accountable too. They don’t blame luck or push it all on the players. I have no problem understanding why the players won’t play for him. The whole Canucks organization from management to coaching to veteran “leaders” puts more effort into excuses for why they $&!# the bed instead of actually looking in the mirror. The team has a losing culture of excuse making.
  4. It’s not just about that. It’s also that the Canucks feared how fans would react to an actual rebuild and feared losing playoff revenue. Ironically had they bit the bullet and not put getting the Sedins another shot ahead of what was obviously necessary they would likely already be a playoff contender again. There has been 8 years of one year reactionary plans hoping to make the playoffs each year. There has not been an actual long term goal of creating a sustainable competitive team through incremental improvement. The Canucks need the owners to step back from pushing unrealistic expectations and it needs a GM with the ability to plan rather than “live day to day” as Benning likes to say he does.
  5. Horvat looks fed up. Like most of the team. Been saying it for years. Horvat is overrated defensively and underrated offensively. His main defensive skill is winning faceoffs. A good coach would recognize it and even if you don’t want to play him on the pk, put him out to take defensive zone faceoffs and then when you actually get possession and dump it down to the ice, change him out. The lack of creativity by the coaches in trying some different things is mind boggling.
  6. The thing that always strikes me as odd with Green is that even when asked directly about what needs to be adjusted on the pk, pp, etc he never admits it is anything to do with the actual system or that he and his coaches have a responsibility to adjust anything, he just blames the effort level of the players or luck. It’s really the same with anything. When has anyone ever heard Green take any accountability for his role in things not working?
  7. Ya but he isn’t going to be helping. Which means someone needs to take that spot. And I have no faith in Benning filling it properly. Sutter was a good soldier that was grossly overpaid and contributed to losing better players who might have helped the pk, like Tanev.
  8. I don’t disagree. I just have zero faith in Benning to fill those holes with the right players. He literally never has.
  9. Benning/Green supporters will jump on how we should all calm down because it’s not the worst ever!
  10. Never said it was on Benning how they are playing. It’s on him for not filling holes with players who can actually do the job.
  11. The depth on this roster is one step above last years bottom 6 depth and one step below last years defensive depth. Neither give me the feeling Benning needs anything other than a pink slip.
  12. There is no guarantee the status quo will turn things around either though. At this point I take new coaches that can at the very least reset the players sense of entitleness and make them have to earn their roles with a clean slate rather than coaching bias.
  13. Why are Hoglander and/or Garland not being used on the PK? Hoglander has hands down been our best forward.
  14. Lol that comeback would work if: 1) We hadn’t already been waiting 8 years with little result to show for it. and 2) This team wasnt far more soft than any of the previous regimes teams. Like by a million times. and 3) this team actually won games. (I mean is winning in the regular season then losing in the playoffs really worse than just losing in the regular season and not making the playoffs? Not sure how that argument makes sense tbh)
  15. If Tampa wanted Miller that badly he would still be there. Being deep on D is a good thing. It’s what good teams do. Benning should have learned that in 8 years.
  16. Now look at Colorado’s roster, their young core, and their prospect pool. Would you trade their whole roster for Vancouver’s? I would in a second. I would trade Benning for Sakic, Weisbrod for McFarland, and Green for Bednar in a heartbeat too. Colorado also played in what was a much tougher division.
  17. Because Benning and his Coach set the example and do the exact same thing. They set the tone for the excuse making, lack of accountability culture that permeates this entire team now.
  18. I am genuinely interested to hear exactly and in specific detail what there is to love about Benning during his 8 years here. His entire job is to improve the team over time. On paper doesn’t cut it. Results are what matter. Benning maintaining status quo with coaching right now is all the proof you need that he has lost any ability to figure out how to get this team over the mediocrity hump.
  19. Moderation of what exactly? People’s opinions? That’s not moderation it’s censorship.
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