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  1. So at least we know where our anti-Semites and anti-Sino base is rooted on CDC. For a guy who apparently lives in, and rules over, a dangerous gang-infested part of Canada, your halo seems to be on pretty tight.
  2. Uh, ok. You are not just trolling - you are hilarious so kudos on that point. Love the shtick. The usual "anti-Benning" troll isn't nearly as inventive. Congrats on raising the bar. Chuck and I are very impressed.
  3. LOL. I have a hard time getting my the players? I am very supportive of the players - at all levels. If you can find somewhere I have not supported someone who wanted to be a Vancouver Canuck and who is in their system, please enlighten me. If a player feels entitled or otherwise not a fit with the organization, I have been around the game long enough to know that the faster you cut ties with that player the better. Even then you get behind them....and push. You are not answering anything. You are spewing the same vitriol about the Canuck management as an anonymous poster from your lair. We get you are not a fan of Benning - you have some who will certainly agree with you but how many times do you need to spill the hate into any number of threads? How many times do you need to invent drama and then blame Benning? How many times? I guess as many as you have - and likely more to come (sorry, I tend to ask rhetorical questions when talking with someone I feel has an agenda).
  4. BB will not be available at 6 BUT if he was, I think Detroit would consider if you removed one of Ras/Lindstrom and the Canucks would then have a tough decision to make but it would be a fairly even deal at that point.
  5. Would be great from a Canuck fan perspective if the team could trade in an alternative universe where such trades could take place (e.g. where both team's GMs had the objective of the trade to improve the Canucks with the trade).
  6. Remove OJ and you might have some traction on both sides. Keep OJ in and Benning loses his job and Wild get a lopsided win.
  7. I guess a few of us do as we have been trolled into this discussion with you.
  8. By projecting some form of fear of critique that players won't care about but apparently you do. The only "victim" here appears to be you.
  9. Wow. Just wow. I doubt he has melted any of these players the way he has apparently done to you. Wow. As someone who has played the game through pretty much every level imaginable, I find Benning's candor not only refreshing, it resonates as coming from a GM who has "been there" (e.g. played and been a kid in the game) who knows exactly what is going on in heads, in the room and the games even agents can play. I see him as a very candid guy who is a breath of fresh air in a day when some melt from having someone raise a voice. However, just for you as you are clearly harmed by all this:
  10. Edler has been a warrior for Vancouver but any deal that forces the Canucks to protect him for the expansion draft would be a poor hockey move by team management.
  11. Unfit? So the fact Dahlen bolted from SJ too after finding it too much to put in the effort in North America makes Benning an unfit GM? Sounds like he is an excellent GM who got something for a player that was never going to "stick" in North America. Sounds like excellent use of assets to me. He has a really nice prospect in return for something and now both Ottawa and San Jose, respectively, have zip to show for the experience of making those deals. Unfit? I think you need a new dictionary to look up what that word means.
  12. Both were extremely highly regarded prospects - both high end O-zone first players with "elite" hands. Read their scouting reports. Vey was small but very fast and with the NHL trending that way, and his massive point totals in junior and is over point per game AHL production in his last season there he was considered a 4th round gem by many and with a real chance to succeed and excel in the "new" NHL. Having his personal tragedy ended what could have been a great career. Baer was seen as a potential top five pick in his draft year but there were questions about his work ethic - he had perhaps the most natural goal scoring skill in that draft and when he scored three times in his first five NHL games with the Flames, some thought he was "there". He took longer than that but has rounded into a player that has exceeded the 53rd overall slot pick that Canucks surrendered for him having averaged almost 0.5 PPG in his NHL career to date and showing in his time in Vancouver an ability to score from "dirty areas" overcoming a criticism earlier in his career. Your puerile nickname for Baer and your claim of delusion notwithstanding, given the facts perhaps you can enlighten who the Canucks should have selected with those two draft slots with your great looking backward ability.
  13. These were sound moves at the time - one has worked out more than fine, the other hasn't and one cannot blame either the player nor Canuck management that the player's personal life was destroyed.
  14. I don't agree with you whatsoever. The Canucks have as many picks over the Benning regime as they were allotted...he has used some for assets to fill a bare cupboard. He needed to rejig the lineup and the market was what it was. This isn't Playstation...."buddy".
  15. It's called a rebuild and the holes are slowly being filled. Expect another younger player into the "bottom six" next year (Gaudette was rushed a bit this past season but could look good there next year, for example).
  16. Those are second round picks? Those all sound like reasonable moves in terms of reasonable risk/reward. Look at the draft slots and the projection and then look at the returns and it is a decent balance about as good as any other GM over same period. If you want every trade to work out 100% for the team you pull for or want every draft pick to be the best player in hindsight years later, rig your Playstation as real life may be too hard for you to handle.
  17. One joke I always used to hear as going into Maple Leaf Garden was like playing on an European ice surface as the home team played so small there was so much ice out there!
  18. Canucks needed EVERYTHING and had very little young talent in different stages of development. Will agree to disagree as both moves made a lot of sense to me at the time. One worked, one didn't. A top four Dman from 50 and 53 in the second round is not a common occurrence (it can happen, but unlikely and neither of those drafts was the draft for those....unless you lucked into Montador in one and Dunn in the other). I know where your head is at Alf but it is a false narrative for both of those drafts.
  19. Vey was an outstanding junior and coming into his own as a professional when his personal life was destroyed and it (no wonder) messed him up for staying in North America. It was a reasonable risk (50th overall) given Vancouver already snagged Demko in that round and they wanted to jump start their offense and thought Vey would be a big part of that development. It didn't work out. It doesn't always work out. I am sure someone with the benefit of hindsight will find someone from pick 50 and beyond and say "should have taken" ..... easy to draft five years after the fact. Baer was a highly coveted first round pick who in his draft year was setting point per game records in Portland and looked like a potential superstar. Baer's career has already exceeded the ceiling and production for his draft slot (53rd overall) and he is far from an old guy and may have a number of great years in front of him.
  20. It worked fine in the NHL for years. It is only relatively recently that there has been a "standard" NHL rink. Back in the "day", there was quite a bit of variation. The NHL standard today is 85 feet wide by 200 feet long but up until it was replaced, the Old Boston Garden up to 1995 was 83 X 191. Chicago, before its change, was 185 X 85 feet. Buffalo came into the league with the Aud which was 196 X 85 feet. Other examples exist if you dig. All smaller than international of course but fun hockey trivia.
  21. Examples? He has traded 2nd round picks twice for what were high end prospects (one a first round pick). What other examples do you offer?
  22. Very few NHL players take a "break" from the league in those key pre-25 years. He has not had anything close to NHL challenge, conditioning or level of play for what will soon be three years. He isn't Tiger Woods who took a break from golf for a while.
  23. Trump is a class one idiot but those who whine about things that are not worthy of a whine are equally annoying (yet without the control of a country...so, ya, get your point).
  24. The whining about this guy is intense - but reality check. Canucks have oodles of CAP space and don't really need it until his contract is up. He is an effective NHL player and apparently extremely good with the young guys so far from any harm having around the likes of EP40, OJ, Hughes etc etc. After this July bonus, his actual salary is "peanuts" by today's NHL and so he would be attractive any team without CAP concerns wanting a positive veteran presence for quite low dollars - at least six teams if not eight fit that description. He is a valuable roster guy for the expansion draft as he fits the perfect description of someone to expose. Oh, and well it was pointed out, will say it again. He remains a good NHL hockey player. He isn't what most want from him in terms of point totals but he does belong in the NHL.
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