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Elias Pettersson | Quinn Hughes - Contract Discussion Thread
RU SERIOUS replied to Bertuzzipunch's topic in Canucks Talk
Uncle Jim has a bit of Trouble Multi-Tasking......you know. He'll get to it sooner or later like the Toffolli signing....... Just be patient ! -
Well what do you expect when Uncle Jim struck out 3 out of his 7 draft years by wasting his picks with Yo-Levi, Jake the Ripper and last year drawing a complete blank with no 1st or 2nd round picks and then picking a bunch of nobody's in rounds 3 thru 7 that will never see the light of a NHL day. Yet, many proclaim he is the second coming of Christ because of of a couple of lucky picks. I won't even get into all the bad trades, signings and many players he let walk out the door on expired contracts rather than trade them for something/anything. He's hopeless! I for one am not fooled by the propoganda and hype that some fall for, You hit the nail on the head and why Uncle Jim and his AHL Calibre side-kick coach Green must be Terminated ! This team is currently built and coached for regular season - Euro-League shinny hockey and NOT the NHL Finals. We're not even close!
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Lets hope EP40 is not permanently damaged goods like Yo-Levi is after his injury. That would be devastating! Hopefully he is back in shape and healthy and he there are some positive re-inforcements brought on board and the old timers let go and not re-hired just because their "swell guys". JB has to suck it up and cut the deadwood from this team once and for all. Our 3rd and 4th lines are boat anchors as our our 3rd D pairing and in need of replacement.
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Well said, I've been around long enough to tell you that moulding a team into a Euro/Sweedish style regular season finesse hockey team will NEVER win you a cup. It might get you some oohs and ahs in the regular season but will colapse in the playoffs. Until uncle Jim is fired and we get a real GM capable of building a more rugged and tougher team (yes, with some skill), we will go nowhere. The kids we are banking on have skill but that is not enough to win a cup. Witness Tampa! They not only have skill, but size, presence, grit and take no BS from anyone. The canucks are not even close to being in the same league as them or past SC champs and i see no sign of this changing with JB entering his 7th year and that goes for our Interim AHL Calibre coach Green as well. Hopefully Aqua-lini fires both of them in 12 months if we see yet another dismall set of results.
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Jim Benning's Trade & Free Agents History
RU SERIOUS replied to DelChristensen's topic in Canucks Talk
We'll it may not be the most insightful thread of the year but it's important to him and given he looks like a "newbie" and it's summer with not much else going on, you should let his post slide - let alone he does bring up some points that many would agree with as much as disagree with, so why not. -
I'll second that. I give at two-three of my game tickets away to senior relatives who don't even own a smart phone and now what am i suppossed to do?
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Jim Benning's Trade & Free Agents History
RU SERIOUS replied to DelChristensen's topic in Canucks Talk
Wow, I always knew, like most straight thinkers - that Uncle Jim was terrible at trades & signings but I honestly have to admit I forgot how many dozens of bad moves he made over the years. If you combine that with the two really bad 1st round flops (Yo-Levi and Jake the Ripper) and last years complete draft bust with not a single players to ever play on out team, it's hard to believe that three good/lucky draft pickup's makes up for 3 bust years and all the mess he's left us with and makes you wonder WTF he's still sitting in the GM chair???? Completely mystifying ???? -
Jim Benning's Trade & Free Agents History
RU SERIOUS replied to DelChristensen's topic in Canucks Talk
Exhibit "B" - why the forum regulars constantly grumble about someone having a different opinion from their own. Let the man be - that's what makes this forum interesting & entertaining and even funny on rare occasions! (besides not much else going on at this time of the year) -
I assume this doesn't apply to Albertans ???
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Elias Pettersson | Quinn Hughes - Contract Discussion Thread
RU SERIOUS replied to Bertuzzipunch's topic in Canucks Talk
Both those players routinely get skated circles around and are well past their "Best Before" dates. It's time to move on from both and save almost $11,000,000.00 even though many have sentimental attachment to them and hate change because "it's scary". If their departure is too heartbreaking for you, I'd suggest you buy a poster of each and set up a shrine to each (with some flowers) in your closet and in no time at all, you'll forget they ever played on our team. Don't worry - change is good and in our case required. -
Elias Pettersson | Quinn Hughes - Contract Discussion Thread
RU SERIOUS replied to Bertuzzipunch's topic in Canucks Talk
................and just watch him try to resign the old timers, Sutter and Edler again to long term contracts like he did with those other 5th line players Eriksson, Roussel, Mutte and of course Pearson. He loves overpayed old "dead-wood" players for some reason. Could never figure out why and why so many think he's the second coming of Christ. -
Elias Pettersson | Quinn Hughes - Contract Discussion Thread
RU SERIOUS replied to Bertuzzipunch's topic in Canucks Talk
Agree - Quinn needs to learn "How to become a NHL defenceman" first and reduce his stratospheric Minus -24 +/- point average which I believe is the 3rd worst out of over 300 NHL defensemen before we pay him more than "Hedman" makes. 8 x $8M is ridiculous and the dumbest suggestion I've heard all year on this forum. If JB even gets near that type of offer to Quinn he must immediately be put on a barge and pushed out to sea (with green - of course) ! Even medling Aqua-Lini wouldn't put up with that. -
I thought Jim benning's boy - Loui Eriksson was going to make the front Cover of NHL 21? Or maybe one of his stellar first round picks like Jake the Ripper or Yo-Levi or last years first round pick (oh wait he gave that away too)? What a great GM !
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It's too bad the federal Gov't can't just pass some type of law to herd all the Anti-Vaxers/Flat-earth believers into one isolated place like Alberta - where they are cut-off a thousand miles from the nearest civilized city and can do no harm to normal people.
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Well said, I too will not remove my mask for a very long time, as many of my neighbors and friends have caught Covid as i unfortunately live in "the petrie dish neighborhood of the lower mainland" (Surrey), where many are not yet vacinated and we've had the most contaminated people in BC and Canada. I still can't imagine sitting at a canucks game next to strangers - wondering if they're one of the unvaccinated people from my neighborhood and risk getting sick, stuck with Long-Haul symptoms or possibly even dying just because they breathed on me from 2 feet away. Until 85% of the entire population is fully vacinated - and the numbers stay consistantly down for months - not days, I'm not taking any chances and neither should anyone and lets not even talk about the rapidly spreading Indian/Delta variant that ravaging countries all over the world and starting to spread in Canada quickly. God help us if that takes hold here. I hope I am completely wrong - but suspect that this is not over yet and we all need to be careful at the least for some time to come.
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I'm expecting limited attendance - likely 50% to start but lookout, as we are very possibly going to be hit with a fourth wave this fall with the Indian (delta) variant hammering many countries in the southern hemishphere and spreading like wildfire in many countries. So don't throw your mask away yet as I suspect this battle with Covid is far from over and we may see more lockdowns this fall/winter.
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Well said. This team needs to shed it's love affair with it's Soft Sweedish Finesse polite mentality and realize that building your team around soft regular season Swedish finesse players and instilling that meek, gentlemanly mentality may win you a Lady Byng trophy but will NEVER win you the Stanley cup. That's what has plagued this team for the last two decades and facilitated by coaches like Green who cater to that mentality. Just watch the Stanley cup winners over the last several decades and you'll see that Size, Grit and toughness Trump polite gentlemanly regular season "wow" players in the playoffs. Watching Tampa over the last few weeks has shown that the present Canucks line up is completely incapable of competeing against the "BIG BOYS" and JB has had little success fixxing this and why he must be replaced ASAP along with Green, who should be managing a cushy country club. Until that is done, this team will continue in it's never ending rebuilding mode and continue getting pushed around, beat up and out muscled. This is not the Euro League - it's the NHL !
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I agree with your comments and a few others - that we should not trade either at this time, as we have no one to replace them with, plus the young guns and up & coming potential star players are still 2-3 years from having the ability to inflict serious impact in the playoffs. But more importantly is your comment that BumGardener is finally gone and we all know (and it took Uncle Jim several years to admit) that he was the worst defensive coach we've ever had in 50 years and Shaw should certainly improve things. I'd be more inclined to wait another year or two and see what the back end looks like - especially after someone finally teaches young Quinn how to play defenseman and reduce that League Shattering Minus -24 +/- points that harm the team. If he can clean that up - and one of our Rookie dmen in the wings (like Woo) appear half descent as they join the ranks, then we can start thinking about dumping either of them.
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Agree! my same fears, as both he and Green will definately be fired next season if there is an eihth straigh year of poor results. Enough is enough and IMO, they both should have been put on a barge with Loui Errikson and pushed out to sea last month!
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TRADE UNCLE JIM AND GREEN ! Any other questions...........................?
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Wow, i really miss this thread and the "Kevin Bieska you really are a....." thread. Those were the days...............!
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I wonder what nickname his new wife Ivanna Bitakokov should be given?
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Yo-Levi is Finished - NOT - Swedish. Just saying.......