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wallstreetamigo

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  1. Because 6 years of guaranteed money is more risk than 1 year? The players are better, the contract risk is not.
  2. So people coming to a Canucks forum should not discuss the team or be concerned about the team because there are worse things in the world? Sorry bud this is a weak argument. OMG don’t criticize the Canucks because it’s no big deal in the world! No one said there aren’t worse things in the world. We are here to discuss the team though it’s kind of the point.
  3. He traded them with 1 year left. For guys that have 6 and 5 year contracts. That’s not admitting a mistake, it’s repeating one.
  4. Unless you think ruining the development of most of our prospects and/or getting rid of them for garbage to keep plugs is damaging. Which I do.
  5. Take a look at the long term cap situation the Canucks have. It’s worse than it was. Because he pushed his chips all in on this roster. The roster is better but is it really a cap max playoff quality roster? Not even close.
  6. Here’s the thing I disagree with about that. Who you get to coach ALWAYS matters. Green isn’t a $&!#ty coach because he lost games with a Swiss cheese roster. He is a $&!#ty coach because he hasn’t really developed a single player to be more than they were the day they showed up and has never had any ability to manage a roster or build systems that get the most out of what he had. That’s the difference good coaching makes. Being a rebuilding team doesn’t excuse hiring a bargain basement $&!# coach.
  7. Context matters. He traded 1 year of dead cap left with those players for 6 and 5 years respectively of replacing that cap. That’s a risk especially if OEL and Garland continue to look like Green has successfully neutered their competitiveness and offense. Beagle, Roussel, Schaller, Player Name, Gagner, Sutter, Ferland, etc crippled the team for a long time. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to trade a top 10 pick and a 2nd to dump 1 year contracts.
  8. I never wanted Green hired. It wasn’t really an achievement to know a guy with zero experience on an NHL bench in any capacity and no success at the AHL level would be a crappy NHL head coach. It’s just kind of common sense. I actually thought Benning was a good hire at the time. I never wanted OEL’s CONTRACT on the team. Still don’t. I liked the Miller trade. So 2 of the things you mention I hated, 2 I liked. Might want to look up the definition of a theme or habit.
  9. You seem to have a problem with reading comprehension. Benning will trade a core player because he &^@#ed the cap to the point where literally nothing else will be able to be done to change the team. The problem with this team isn’t the players. It’s the management group and the coaching. They are the only constants as the roster has been turned over pretty significantly and the results are no different. Not sure why people are so butthurt about the Hughes/IV thing. Or reporting about what players want for a contract. I would bet good money Hughes WAS on an IV with how defensive people are about that story.
  10. I am basing it on 8 years bud. (They have played 16 games btw). I never wanted Green hired in the first place so nope they could have fired him day one and it wouldn’t have been soon enough for me. I didn’t post garbage about either of them. I never said anything negative about Garland at all and I simply pointed out OEL had significantly declined and has a horrid contract for 6 more years. Garland started strong until Green started demoting and benching him. Now he looks meh. OEL has been good defensively but his offense has dried up and he isn’t being utilized correctly to change that. Just like Schmidt last year. That’s on Green but it’s also on Benning for 8 years of failing to get an NHL level defense that is 6 players deep.
  11. Greens replacement is already here. Interim Coach Brad Shaw would give the team time to really search for a long term coach. The problem is Benning doesn’t deserve another long term coach hire. Desjardins and Green are our version of Dallas Eakins when the Oilers bought the AHL hype and hired him. Benning has wrecked this team for the next GM. No cap to improve a terrible defense, still no quality bottom 6 players who can fill a role and help pk, and the only move available is throwing away a core player. The other thing is the culture of the team is terrible. No accountability, no taking responsibility, etc. That’s on Benning. And it’s why he needs to get fired now. Not sure how anyone has any faith left in Benning. He drafted a few good core players based on his retool trades and signings being terrible and the team sucking. If even a few of the duds he brought in performed even close to how he said they would, no Hughes, EP, Podkolzin, etc.
  12. When has Jim actually been this under the gun? Benning is maybe the worst GM since Milbury for making bad decisions about when to make a move and when not to. OEL has been good defensively for the most part but like Schmidt his offense has dried up under these coaches. Garland looks like he has been Green’d out.
  13. Why in the world would anyone want to keep Benning as President? Most of the Canucks issues come directly back to not having a competent PoHO. Benning has been defacto pres since linden left and the organization is a train wreck.
  14. That’s exactly what it is. And to provide cover for Benning with his worshippers when he trades a core player for garbage.
  15. No way I would allow Benning to make a significant trade at this point. If I was Aquilini, I would be asking myself if the reason for any deal right now is to truly make the team more competitive or if it is pretty much exclusively to deflect blame onto the players, buy more time, and save Benning and Greens jobs. Desperate GM’s make bad trades. That’s why most well run teams don’t hang onto them once they are essentially one failed stretch of games away from being fired. They typically get rid of them before they get to straight up panic proportions.
  16. Dangling any of those 3 won’t make a difference no matter how they play. If a panic trade is coming it will be a core player and it won’t be for anywhere near the value being thrown around. Benning will make a trade just to try to buy himself and Green more time. And will get bent over in the deal you can be sure.
  17. Hey Jim, how did the meeting go with Aquilini today?
  18. Never a good reason to keep a bad coach or GM. They were fired for the same reasons Benning and Green need to be fired now.
  19. No one should be suggesting that responsibility only falls on the coach or the gm or this player or that player. It’s the mix of all of it. The easiest change to make with the lowest risk, highest reward is the coaching. A close second is management. They have already turned over the roster a ton and the results are the same. Horvat was more like the captain we need when he was trying to prove he was the captain. Miller is the real C on this team and whether or not that is a good thing is open to debate.
  20. The time is over for compromises designed with no practical purpose other than to save either the coach’s or the GM’s job. They have had their chances. Benning tied himself to Green so needs to go too as a result of messing that decision up and also hiring totally useless assistant coaches. Jim Rutherford as PoHO and interim GM. Or Lombardi. Someone with real respect around the league and the chops to do the job. Gorton should be the first guy interviewed for long term GM.
  21. Firing Benning is the least desperate move next to firing the coaching. If Aquilini wants to restore some semblance of hope within the fan base and player group, both management and coaching should be replaced now. Hiring an experienced and respected PoHO who can act as interim GM while he does an extensive search for a long term GM and making Shaw interim coach so the new GM can hire their coaches and evaluate their roster is the most well thought out and in actual fact “patient” approach Aquilini can take.
  22. The fact this is our best team since 2011 and is still performing like this is actually the best argument for firing Benning and Green than anything else. The last thing we need is desperate moves. He has hired 2 coaches. Desjardins and Green. Along with such stellar assistants as Baumgartner, King, some guy no one has heard of, etc. Does that inspire any confidence in you that he should get another long term coach hire? A rebuild and a retool are two very different approaches. Benning has not one year of his tenure engaged in anything close to a rebuild.
  23. Or they see it as ownership won’t accept that it is a lost season and are showing faith in the players as a group rather than trading guys to save Benning and Green yet again.
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