Yet he just had his best game against one of the best teams in the league. Only thing Green wants to do is give his veteran players undeserved ice time over kids who have.
Do you really believe Aquilini would have allowed a full blown rebuild especially while the Sedins were still here? I remember a pretty significant rumour at the time that Benning was told to go for it as long as the Sedins were playing at a high level. I will say Gillis saw that the team needed to be torn down but Aquilini wanted no part of that.
But Michael Grabner and a 1st round pick, effectively 2 1st round picks for Keith Ballard, who ended up on the third pairing after we signed Hamhuis, wasn’t mortgaging the future?
The other difference you failed to mention, Gillis inherited a core that just needed a tweak here and there to be able to take that next step, which he did. Benning came in to an aging core where he had next to nothing to work with.
Losing 2-1 and only scoring with 5 seconds left is stepping up execution? We had more dump ins than actual scoring chances I’m not sure where you saw that last night.