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  1. Like I said, they never INTENTIONALLY rebuilt. They simply sucked hard at retooling every year. The COVID excuse is one you can’t have both ways. The bubble year they only got into the playoffs because the season was shut down early. The next year, they sucked all year BEFORE the COVID outbreak. What’s your excuse for that? They played well against St Louis but let’s be fair, STL played like crap that series. They then got absolutely dominated by Vegas and only god like goaltending got them out of a 5 game wrecking in that series. Trading for Miller was good. Trading for Toffoli and letting him walk? Not so good. OEL and Garland are fine but he also traded short term cap problems for the potential of long term ones with OEL. We won’t know the outcome of that for awhile. The signing (crappy) veterans to provide leadership certainly didn’t create a winning culture did it? This team right now has a losing culture and has for all of Benning’s time here. And your post highlights why. Our gm, coach, and players also make excuses blaming outside factors rather than looking in the mirror and taking accountability.
  2. Benning tied himself to Green this past offseason. So both need to go in a clean sweep.
  3. That’s why you hire a PoHO now who can also serve as interim GM while he conducts an exhaustive search for a GM. Shaw as interim coach would be fine too with new assistants. Let the new long term GM hire the next long term coach.
  4. I would be ok with that. I also think Jeff Gorton should be on the short list.
  5. Not really upset by this at all. If we are relying on Highmore to be a difference maker at this point let’s hope we win the inevitable draft lottery we are headed for.
  6. True. Having said that, like Schmidt last year, his offense has pretty much dried up with the Canucks compared to Arizona. That to me points to coaching more than skill. OEL has played well defensively but could a new coach get more out of him? I think it’s definitely a possibility.
  7. This has pretty much never been a rebuilding team, at least not on purpose. Benning has managed to draft high as a direct result of his massive and consistent failures with his annual retool moves. If any of his collosal mistake signings had worked out even close to how he said they would, no EP, no Hughes, no Podkolzin. Funny how most of the truly impact drafting in his tenure was while Brackett was running the department. He has traded picks like a guy who was retooling all along.
  8. Talk to an nhl player or coach. They know the outside noise the can’t control is just part of the job. They don’t make career defining decisions based on it. If it is true that quality coaches do not want to coach in Van it is exclusively due to either personal reasons like not wanting to move there or ownership management and the work environment. Every coach who isn’t coaching knows there are only 32 nhl head coach jobs. If they want to coach they aren’t that picky unless they are in high demand. I have never met a single professional coach who didn’t believe they could fix any problem with any roster.
  9. Same as above. Coaches don’t care about media coverage when deciding on a job. They know it is part of the job.
  10. No coach I know cares much about what fans think. Nor would they decide not to coach somewhere based on them. Like any job, they care about the environment they will be working in.
  11. As long as they make the playoffs every few years, Aquilini seems fine with mediocrity though. And he is saving a lot of money on his bare bones and inexpensive front office yes men and budget coaches.
  12. This team needs a coach who isn’t learning with the team anymore. They need one who commands respect just by walking in the room. They need leadership and a culture change. Only a strong GM and head coach can give them that.
  13. I think it’s an opportunity to add a few experienced coaches who want an opportunity at a head coaching job.
  14. He was an interim head coach for the Islanders way back when for 40 games or so iirc.
  15. Aquilini - “I am a fan just like you. I feel the frustration. But Jim is the right guy for the job and has my full confidence.” Okay Frankie, then you aren’t, in fact, a fan like me because I think he is garbage. Benning - “Travis has done a great job and we have full confidence in him that he is the coach to take us to the cup.” Ok Jim, you should really stop drinking.
  16. I am preaching patience. The team doesn’t need its next long term coach immediately. Hire a respected PoHO that can act as interim GM while he does an extensive search for the next GM. Jim Rutherford jumps out at me for that role. I think Jeff Gorton would be a great guy to consider asGM but there are lots of guys that should be considered. Get this hiring right. Make Shaw interim head coach. Hire new assistant, maybe even a few former head coaches who want to audition for the permanent job. Let the new long term GM and PoHO evaluate the roster before making any big changes to the core. At minimum, this forces the players to be on their toes about having to earn what they get again. And it gives them a reset on their hope the team can rebound. The psychological impact of these moves on the players cannot be overstated imho.
  17. This. Why are people so scared of Green being launched into the core of the sun here? My expectation is Aquilini will give his full support to Green and Benning today and then when the PK manages to improve to 70% (which is inevitable given it is tracking to be among the worst in nhl history) Aquilini will do a victory lap about how patience paid off.
  18. Torts was the wrong coach at the wrong time when he was hired in Van. That team was a bunch of self entitled vets who were emotionally shattered from their playoff failures. Hell, the team spent 5 years solely trying to give the Sedins another shot at the cup at the expense of what was necessary when they should have torn it down. That screams self entitled view from the top down. Torts does much better with younger teams who actually want to buy in.
  19. Guess what? Actual good coaches (not Green) know that EVERY roster has issues and holes and that their job is to build a system and style of play that maximizes strengths and minimizes weaknesses. If Torts got hired, this team would at a bare minimum give a &^@# about losing.
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