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Also, here are Malone’s goals from earlier in the season:
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Malone adds an assist tonight. Nice play on Cornell’s second goal.
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Aidan McDonough | #25 | LW
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to GoldenAlien's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
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Jim Benning media availability
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Maybe wasn’t asked, but Benning certainly answered the question: “We’re a fragile team.” -
Jim Benning media availability
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
He’s right that the team has improved at 5v5. Not sure I’d say they’ve really “fixed” the issues, with the roster moves, or that the team’s current 5v5 play is anything for this management group to hang their hat on. We went from the 2nd worst 5v5 xGF% last season to currently being only the 6th worst in the league. This isn’t just a special teams issue. (To be fair to Jim, the “against” numbers at 5v5 are much better. We’ve gone from the absolute worst xGA/60 last season to being somewhere around the middle of the pack. But we also have the 7th worst xGF/60 at 5v5.) Even if we fix the penalty kill, and the power play heats up, we still need to see some serious overall improvement at 5v5, to have any hope of becoming even a bubble playoff team. Not nearly good enough. Especially for a team that was, by management’s own messaging (and clearly expressed in their willingness to spend both cap space and draft capital), built to compete right now, or by next season, at the very latest. -
Jim Benning media availability
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Weaker defence and no RH faceoff man available is the bottom line, when it comes to personnel issues. We’ve seen the team move on from its two best defensive defensemen, in successive years, first with Tanev and then Edler. And we also went from having two of the best RH faceoff guys in the league, in Sutter and Beagle, to having no RH faceoff option (not even backup depth for Sutter), and therefore starting every PK with a weak side draw. That doesn’t explain why our PK is this bad. But it probably explains why expected goals against (per 60 min PK) are about 50% higher than they were two seasons ago, for most of the main PKers on the current roster. As to why many players have 2-3 times as many goals against (per 60 min PK) than they did two years ago, that’s probably a combination of failed coaching, bad puck luck, and the team being mentally “fragile.” -
For those who say it's been 8 years of Benning...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to dougieL's topic in Canucks Talk
Easily a million bucks a year, each, for the twins and Kesler. Not “massive” but significant, especially taken together, and then with Burrows’ also doing a sweetheart deal at only $2M AAV (at a time when ~30 goal scorers were getting paid about twice that). Taken together, those extensions freed up enough cap space to add another high end player, or even two very good players, to the roster. Top-30 salaries were ~$7M+ at that time, with top-10 players making over $8M and going as high as $10M. The Sedins had already gone from top-30 to top-15 scorers, before signing their matching $6.1M AAV deals (and they would go on to win major awards, including scoring titles, on those deals). Kesler had already cracked the top-15 in scoring, even while playing behind the twins, and handling heavy defensive/matchup duties (but also getting to pad his stats on the power play). $5M was a bargain. Kesler himself said that he was leaving money on the table, because he wanted to win. He would have been a 1C on many teams, and there were plenty of inferior players around the league at that time making $7M+, so even something closer to $6M would have still been very good value. (The much-maligned Luongo deal was also a cap savings of roughly $2M per season, when the team really needed the space, to go all-in on contending for the Cup.) -
It’s definitely a concern. We’re already kinda ****** but losing another first rounder, and further weakening our future prospect pool, would really not be good for the longterm health of this team. Scary thought: when Benning eventually goes, he may leave the cupboards even emptier for the next guy than Gillis did.
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Going full rebuild after the 2011 SCF loss would have been sheer insanity. We were the best team in the NHL. Going full rebuild in 2014? In hindsight, that was probably the time to do it. Unfortunately, the only guy who wanted to rebuild in 2014 was Mike Gillis and he got fired. Then came Linden and Benning. And a plan that was anything but a rebuild. Then Linden finally decided he wanted to rebuild in 2017. So he got forced out. And back to a plan that was anything but a rebuild. And now we’re here. At least during Linden’s non-rebuild, when we were “handcuffed” by the Sedins, we drafted 28 times over four years, including 5 first rounders. After Linden was gone, and it was the full-on Jim Benning show, with the Sedins retired, we drafted 26 times in four years, with only two first round picks.
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I think that argument only tracks for a very small, extreme segment of fans (and they are more trolls and attention seekers than true hockey fans). Most of the “anti-Benning” people I know are actually motivated by their love for this team. And they are “true fans.” They believe that continuing any further with Benning at the helm is to choose to continue to lose, to further damage this team and it’s ability to eventually compete, and to waste the prime years of our best young players. They would argue, and not without some merit, that the “pro-Benning” crowd is actually the group actively rooting against this team, albeit unwittingly, by propping up a regime that continues to fail. I think where the hostility comes in, especially here on CDC, is that many of the more critical/“negative” fans feel they’ve been attacked and gaslit by the other side, just for speaking their truth. Which further polarizes them. But when this team fails, I think it hurts all of us, “pro” and “anti” fans alike, equally. We all love this team. The difference is that, for “anti-Benning” fans, the team’s struggles have a silver lining, in that they hope that the current pain will lead to healing, in the form of removing the sickness that they believe ails this team, namely Jim Benning. It’s not so much about being proven right (although after years of attacks and gaslighting in these boards, I’m sure there’s some satisfaction for many of the “anti-Benning” CDCers who’ve been constantly under fire from the majority “pro” side here), but rather, being hopeful that this team will eventually be “saved,” if things get bad enough to finally force ownership’s hand.
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Fans attending Wednesday - please be civil
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to dougieL's topic in Canucks Talk
That chant sounds good for the first period. Second period: FIE-ER BEN-NING! Third period: Either FIE-ER FRANK-KEE! or FIRE A-QUI-LINI! (Can’t really fire the owners, but maybe old man Luigi hears the chants and decides to step in.) And if it goes to OT or shootout? Hmm… not sure. Who’s left? FIE-ER FI-IN! FIRE-THE-DEE-JAY! FIRE-EV’RY-BO-DY! (That one actually works for pretty much anytime during the whole game. ) -
Francesco Aquilini To meet with Jim Benning today
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to cuporbust's topic in Canucks Talk
Either that or Jim&John started the meeting by showing Frankie copies of the hidden camera pics taken from Aquilini’s extra night in Vegas? -
[Report] Canucks recall Travis Hamonic
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
That timeline sounds about right. From what I could gather through the grapevine, the Canucks expected Hamonic to be fully vaxxed (2 doses plus time after second dose) in time for the late November road swing (or at least in time to avoid quarantine upon return from the trip). And he wouldn’t have come off LoA until he’s consented to receiving his first dose, and certainly wouldn’t have been recalled to Vancouver and put out in front of cameras until after he’d taken his first shot. -
Potential Benning Replacements?
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to PetterssonOrPeterson's topic in Canucks Talk
Must be something to that approach, since it’s the one aspect of Gilman’s contract work that Benning shamelessly copied. (It’s gotten better, but as recently as a year ago, the Canucks actually carried more NTC/NMCs than any other team in the league. It’s arguable that Benning was even more liberal in handing them out than Gilman. And unlike Gilman, they often failed to secure any significant cap savings.) -
Potential Benning Replacements?
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to PetterssonOrPeterson's topic in Canucks Talk
I think it’s a year or two too soon for Ryan Johnson, but I do think he’ll be an NHL GM one day, possibly here, in some sort of tandem with the Sedins (or possibly with the twins working above him as co-Presidents of Hockey Ops). I’m not sure I’d choose that leadership group for right now, however. Just not enough total experience between them or proven track record in senior NHL management. But I would be fine with that group taking an interim role, if Benning was fired mid-season. I’d also keep Chris Gear and John Wall as part of the interim hockey ops staff, at least until the next GM came in, and built his management team. -
(POLL) When / should Green be Fired ?
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to RU SERIOUS's topic in Canucks Talk
Can we get an “after Benning is fired” option for when Green should be fired? I’m finding it hard to vote for any options where Benning somehow gets to live another day and Green is used as a sacrificial lamb for problems that go far beyond just coaching. (Not that there isn’t good reason for a coaching change. Just that the GM’s record is equally, if not even more, problematic, and management is even further past their expiry date. And aside from coaching and management, the players themselves also bear significant responsibility for their shocking performances.) Anyway, without an “after Benning is fired” option, I’ll vote that Green should be fired if they lose tonight to Anaheim. But what I really hope is that, if the axe is finally coming down on this staff, that the severing swing passes through management first, and then coaching. Benning has had his nine lives. Time to bury the cat. -
Predict The Score Contest: VAN @ VGK Nov 13 2021
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to goalie13's topic in Canucks Talk
I never post in these threads, but 4-3 Canucks in shootout. Petey with winner. -
Has Travis Green lost the room? [Poll Question]
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to Rush17's topic in Canucks Talk
I think tonight’s game will tell us whether or not Green has lost the room. It’s not so much whether they win or lose this game, but what kind of effort we see over 60 minutes or more. Anything short of this team responding, playing for each other, and for their coaching staff, will pretty much definitively tell us where their heads are at. I can’t imagine any of the players not realizing that their coaches’ jobs are now on the line. -
Aidan McDonough | #25 | LW
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to GoldenAlien's topic in Prospects / Farm Team
McDonough picked up an assist in NU’s 2-1 OT loss. Gains a point, but loses ground in the Cy Young. Now 8G 2A 10 points in 12 GP. -
[Report] Tucker Poolman suspended 2 games
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Clearly Poolman, aka #5 on the Winnipeg Jets, deserves his suspension. Should probably suspend him even longer, for trying to avoid discipline, by playing under the assumed name of Brenden Dillon. -
[Report] Tucker Poolman suspended 2 games
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Or they’ll play like the lights are on but nobody’s home.