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  1. The problem is, unless you think Cull is the answer, you should have no faith in Benning’s ability to find the right coach.
  2. You will have to show me where I said Gaudette was elite. I said: 1. The Canucks were the ones who didn’t recognize that Gaudette was not a 3rd line defensive center. All the people saying he needs to score to stick are right. But the only ones who didn’t seem to know that from the minute he was drafted was Benning and the Canucks coaches. They are the ones who kept trying the square peg in the round hole approach with him really. 2. When you are using offensive dynamos like Vesey and Boyd in your top 6 and are a bottom feeder team, why not try to play Gaudette there if for no reason other than to pump his value before you dump him? 3. Highmore is a plug. A fast one but still a plug. I would prefer project players that can provide offense over ones that skate fast and do nothing else of value, but that’s just me. I stand by all of those things even now.
  3. If the job is skate fast, put yourself out of position, drive by instead of hitting, and providing next to nothing offensively, Highmore is definitely your guy!
  4. When your pk is this bad, there is no risk taking out a plug for a proven pk guy that can also play physical on the 4th line.
  5. Shaw as interim coach is the best way to allow a new hockey ops president find the gm he wants and then allow that gm to hire his own coach.
  6. I remember how much we made fun of Edmonton for so many years for their approach to management, coaching, and team building decisions. Let’s see how many of those boxes are checked off with our current team and be objective. Former players from the team for management - check Overhyped rookie coach and ineffective assistant coaches hired based on relationships rather than skill and experience - check Building a roster based on skill and puck possession forwards then using a dump and chase offensive system - check Many years of futility following this hiring approach - check Ignoring building an nhl quality defense - check Accepting a losing culture and making excuses how outside factors wrecked things - check In reality, the Canucks are now the Oilers we made fun of for so long.
  7. No more rookies in key positions. Not at this point. This team needs the right people not the right former Canucks. I would much prefer the Sedins working more closely with the prospects in Abbotsford tbh.
  8. Possession players are great to have. No one on this team currently plays like the Sedins did. No one has the skill and ability they did with the style they played. They have no experience as executives. Assistant GM’s maybe. Co-PoHO though? Not anytime soon. That whole job is to set the direction of the team really.
  9. Is it wrong to kind of hope both he and Weisbrod along with Green and Baumgartner do though?
  10. Shaw as interim coach would be fine. It’s definitely better than giving Benning another long term $&!# coach we will be stuck with if he ends up getting fired. I would rather the next gm have the time to hire the right long term coach. But that is due to me believing Green and Benning need to go now.
  11. Maybe it’s partly because of the dump and chase system, no net front presence, and no puck support style Green coaches?
  12. Jason King is only overrated by anyone dumb enough to hire him to run an NHL power play. Blaming Shaw while excusing Green, Baumgartner, etc is laughable.
  13. In most circumstances I would agree. In this one I disagree. I think a move needs to happen if for no reason other than to give the players some confidence that ownership demands better and to give them some hope. This team badly needs a PoHO. I think the best move right now is to hire Jim Rutherford as PoHO and interim GM. Let him do a comprehensive GM search. Start by talking to Jeff Gorton IMO. Fire Green and anyone not named Shaw or Clark. Make Shaw interim coach and add experienced assistant coaches, maybe even a few former head coaches hungry for another shot. Let the new GM evaluate Shaw and take the time to find the best coach possible. To me, the most important thing right now is to give the players a reset where they have to earn their jobs and roles again. Benning and Green are too attached to certain players and it has clouded their objectivity and their ability to do what is needed to right the ship.
  14. Benning has gone all in with this roster and these coaches. The cap structure in future years will mean losing good players. He has had 8 years to find the right coaches. He has given us no confidence in his ability to do so.
  15. It’s not about blaming a single person or even a handful of them. Its realizing what the highest percentage moves are right now to right the ship. That’s management and coaching IMO.
  16. It’s a culture problem IMO. That starts with ownership, management, and coaching. The players look frustrated, confused, and pissed off at the losing culture. Do you know how hard it is to stay motivated in that environment? OEL is on this team because he did in Arizona exactly what our key players are doing here now. He mailed it in because of frustration at being on a rudderless ship.
  17. The COVID thing is just another outside factor used as an excuse. Good teams find a way through ANY adversity. They don’t cling to it to explain away their faults. The Canucks were garbage before COVID hit them.
  18. Hard no to the Sedins for me. We don’t need a team built in their image. We have seen what their short term coattail rider King has done with our pp.
  19. Neither of those contracts are discounts IMO. Garland is great but has a very small body of work to justify that much for that long. It could be a discount if all goes according to plan but wasn’t when signed. Same with Hughes. He wasn’t worth that much when he signed due to a terrible defensive game. Could be a discount eventually but wasn’t at signing. I am pretty meh on Gear. Doesn’t move the needle enough to really give a crap if he stays or goes. But with the cancerous culture at the top a clean sweep makes more sense to me. Contract guys are pretty easy to find tbh.
  20. It’s a GM issue for re-signing the coach. And for building a roster that would get roughed up by a junior B team.
  21. Very few GM’s with this consistent level of failure last as long as Benning has. Even fewer get 3 different head coach hires to save themselves. Shaw as interim head coach, Rutherford as PoHO and interim GM. Comprehensive search for both a GM and a coach.
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