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What I dont get regarding the management of this team is the fact we seem to be allergic at trying to add picks when we know our scouts are great at finding good players. I mean if for one or 2 years had we accumulated 10 or 12 picks, who knows how strong our team would be regardless of boneheaded moves Benning has made in free agency. We have never deafted below 5th pick yet we got pettersson, hughes and boeser. We would definitely gotten more good players with more picks and build a team that would be deep rather than top heavy. Its too bad we wasted picks for rentals and short term gains.
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The problem is Green playing Edler for 30 minutes or Hughes so much like we are battling for a playoff spot in a meaningless game where we could maybe play some of the younger guys like Graovac or chatfield or rathbone more. You know, just to see what we have. We already know what Demko is capable of but do we know how Dipietro looks? No? What if seattle picks Holtby? I mean this organization is making itself look like a mickey mouse organization from last off season to now. Its becoming a joke. I wonder why they are quarantining Gadjovic and Lockwood? For off season golf?
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Yeah good luck with that lineup and making playoffs. I just dont have high hopes for this team and defense that was worst than last year. Last year we had stecher, Tanev and 2 great goalies. We just keep getting worst on the back end. I hope Benning gets fired so we can have some hope of this team to finally become a contender. I vehementely disagree with bringing back Edler and Sutter. Their time is up, just bring up the kids at this point ready or not.We cant be playing Edler again, we need speed back there and someone that is more reliable. Play Joulevi or Woo, so they can learn the NHL game. No point playing Edler and still missing playoffs with him playing 30 minutes. Its insanity to bring same players back and accept different results especially when Benning the genius let Tanev and Toffoli, key players of our team walk for nothing.
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I get what you mean but to do it with half the team not coming back next season because they are old or might be waiver wire pickups is not something am too fond of because players like Gadjovic, Lockwood, Joulevi and maybe Lind that were suppose to play arent playing. We have guys like Vessey, Boyd and Edler playing which makes it pointless for evaluating the team since we already know what those guys bring to our team and its not a lot. Its frustrating because this team seems to keep going backwards. The whole rebuild has been done as a half step, half measure. Its frustrating to see as a fan. Then to win all the remaining games and pick 15 would be a slap to the face. Winning enough games to just miss the playoffs but getting the worst pick possible. Aside from Benning not getting any picks on trade deadline and in fact downgrading a 4th pick to 5th, its already irritating enough. And the whole concept of getting a higher pick is because Benning is only good at drafting and even he still screws up in the area where it is his strong suit.
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Problem is Green playing the vets still, making it like its game 7 of the stanley cup finals instead of playing our younger players more to see what ee have. So we miss out on player evaluation, miss out on good draft pick for what? Winning this game with the vets sitting would be one thing but winning it with waiver pickups and washed up vets that probably wont be with us next season accomplishes nothing.
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I think its obvious now, with Benning still having a job with so many screws up he has had. At some point the ownership is also at fault. I mean how many years does it take to rebuild and why would a rebuilding team always have cap problems while their best players are on ELC. The management has to see that, they probably dont want to change GMs because Benning is the puppet.
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Aqualini seems to just bringing in people for PR move rather than a person most suitable for the job. Remember Linden? Too bad he wasnt a yes guy that AQ wanted to he resigned.
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Benning learned from the best, Chiarelli and look where Chiarelli is. Those two were the masterminds behind the Seguin trade. AQ is just too stubborn to fire Benning probably because Benning is his yes man. Aside from good drafting, Benning has been terrible in everything else from cap management to trades to free agency and pro scouting.
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I go as far as to say that ownership is part of the problem. Hope they sell the team to someone who doesnt meddle in team management. If Benning was a GM of another team, he would be fired long time ago.
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watch benning let Ian Clark walk and say he ran out of time. He will let him walk just like Toffoli, Malhotra, Tanev, Brackett etc. etc. then extend brown and baumgartner again. His mantra is to let brilliance walk and keep incompetence and mediocrity. We have the worst management after Buffalo with Wiesbrod and Benning at the top.
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You made too many excuses for Benning who has missed playoffs in 6 years yet gave zero credit to Gillis who won 2 presidents trophy and got the team to game 7 of the finals. Fact is that a good GM builds a team for a cup run. Gillis made many great trades and signings like Ehrhoff, Sundin, Samuelsson, Hamhuis, Malhotra, Higgins, Lapierre, Demitra, Torres etc. Those support players were key factors to our cup run and made the team the best. While look at Bennings "support" players like Roussel, Sutter, Myers, Benn, Eriksson, Gudbranson, Hawerlyuk, Del zotto, Spooner etc. I mean none of the support players Benning brought in have much quality and they all have major flaws like speed or scoring or IQ. Benning is just a glorified scout that should not be a GM. That is the difference.
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So maybe best to trade myers to carolina so we get an upgrade. we would throw in some pick or prospect anf guarantee myers would not be picked.
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letting go of myers opens up 6 million in cap space to put forward for a morr reliable D. Think of a D from Tampa or Carolina. Maybe we could get a great D through a trade.
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I rather not sign Edler and sutter and just bring young players in like rathbone, Joulevi, woo, sautner...or sign someone other than Edler and sutter. They both slow and lack offense and both will be worse yet you keep signing them until they are in a wheel chair. Please lets just get younger. Sens got rid of their geriatrics and look how they started playing and winning. What is the point of signing Edler and Sutter???
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[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Winnipeg Jets l May 10, 5 p.m. l SNP
DefCon1 replied to -SN-'s topic in Canucks Talk
wow that sucks. Canucks cant even tank properly lol. We lose enough games to be eliminated yet win enough games to not even pick in top 10. -
[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Winnipeg Jets l May 10, 5 p.m. l SNP
DefCon1 replied to -SN-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Yes, but you want the 100th goal be a special one not a pity empty netter. And he still didnt get it anyways. -
[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Winnipeg Jets l May 10, 5 p.m. l SNP
DefCon1 replied to -SN-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Yeah, sit Edler, vessey and Boyd...play Gadjo, Lockwood and OJ. We need to see where these guys at in the NHL right now instead of next season plus it will give an idea of what we lack. -
[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Winnipeg Jets l May 10, 5 p.m. l SNP
DefCon1 replied to -SN-'s topic in Canucks Talk
lol Edler getting his 100th goal on an empty net? give me a break. -
[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Winnipeg Jets l May 10, 5 p.m. l SNP
DefCon1 replied to -SN-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Green is dumb should have played Hoglander so he can get a hat trick in this meaningless game. At least give your rookie some rewards for playing a good game. Dumb decision by Green.