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Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
Fans haven’t been showing up since 2013. The end of the Gillis days and especially since 2016, they’ve had to give away tickets. -
Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
Gross -
Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
Oilers fans rightfully bought newspaper ads for dumping that clown Lowe. Senators fans bought a billboard. Canucks fans bought tickets and went to games and shouted Fire Gillis. It’s very common in European soccer to fly banners, have protests, put up big tifos in the crowds. -
Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
Laleet doesn’t post on any forums. He’s been a twitter guy all this time. -
Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
I would post pics of it but one day my best pal @oldnews will see me on the road and run me off it “that’s for gudbranson and benning!” - he shouts -
Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
260z. -
Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
Could say this about any expandable income. I use a portion of mine towards building a Datsun. Lot of that supports small businesses within the Datsun world. Keep in mind, here they supported someone’s livelihood to fly that plane. Is that money better used for charitable contribution? Sure. But that argument can be made for any expandable income used for non-charitable purposes. Just like me with my datsun. -
Canucks fans fly #FireBenning banner over Vancouver
Tom Sestito replied to Tom Sestito's topic in Canucks Talk
Definitely the biggest problem rotting the organization is the meddling owner but you can’t fire an owner. -
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fire-benning-banner-takes-flight-canucks-fans-protest The same fundraiser also raised $1250 for canucks for kids fund. $1450 went to towards the banner - basically like buying a 50/50 ticket. In response to the reason for the banner, organizer Uncle Laleet said: “We are only doing this because we love our team and we want a Stanley Cup,” said the fan who organized the protest, who goes by the name of “Uncle Laleet” on Twitter. “We just want someone who can bring this city what we have been craving for 50 years.”
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Jim the Scout, not the Asset Manager
Tom Sestito replied to Makaramel MacKhiato's topic in Canucks Talk
The reality is the only time that they had a success with an age gap piece who had low value instead of a pick is Motte. Tyler Motte. A fourth liner. This is an organization with bad pro scouting. -
[Signing] Canadiens sign Tyler Toffoli
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
This thread is hilarious to look back at because the same people talking about how it was a sacrifice for the long term, toffoli not being that important, etc. were the same people in the pearson thread talking aobut how you can't lose Pearson because he is important and justified the term salary given to Pearson even though he expires at the same time. Very objective poster @Dazzle -
Seven years without a clear plan from Canucks brass.
Tom Sestito replied to appleboy's topic in Canucks Talk
In the words of Ray Ferraro, the Canucks have been operating under the "no plan" plan. -
Seven years without a clear plan from Canucks brass.
Tom Sestito replied to appleboy's topic in Canucks Talk
Nah, you’re just hurt that you can’t think of a better response. It’s okay to be wrong - Benning has been wrong more than he’s been right to and I see you take after your idol. The reason this muppet didn’t @ you was because you were: A. Actively responding to other people B. Viewing the thread at the time I posted that. Really wasn’t a need to @ you when you were going to see it regardless. Last time I @d you when I corrected every point you made, you ignored it anyways so it really had no value. -
Seven years without a clear plan from Canucks brass.
Tom Sestito replied to appleboy's topic in Canucks Talk
Agent is anti-respond to my essay because he knows I'm right on every point I made so -
Seven years without a clear plan from Canucks brass.
Tom Sestito replied to appleboy's topic in Canucks Talk
The first point is stupid because if you believe that this management group has drafted at an above average rate, you would want them to have acquired more picks. Just because another organization hasn't drafted well with their extra picks doesn't mean we couldn't have made more of the same opportunities. This team's pro scouting is cheeks anyways. It's really not debatable that acquiring picks instead of trying to make hockey trades would have been the better move. The only "hockey" trade Jim made where he acquired a young player instead of dealing player X for a pick that worked out well for us was 4th liner Tyler Motte. That's literally it. Again, if you believe in this team's drafting, you want more picks. Their drafting has been above average which is the bare minimum anyways? Picks don't play hockey, but the canucks amateur scouting has been far better than the pro scouting's garbage of u-25 players they've gotten in the last 7 years as age-gap guys because they don't want to wait 3-4 years for a prospect. Literally no one knows what Tryamkin is at this stage. He looked like an unrefined 6'7 Andrew Alberts when he was here. I'm not opposed to giving him a shot, but not at the millions it's going to cost. You have to realize with the Juolevi and Rathbone that you cannot have Hughes and one of those guys playing on your left side. You need two guys capable of playing matchup minutes and to probably somewhat shelter Hughes unless they find an elite defensive defenseman to pair with him. I like Rathbone a fair bit, but there's no future that has those guys playing on the same blueline - unless you're just interested in losing games 5-3. I think Woo is the most realistic to play the toughest minutes of any defenseman not in the NHL for this organization right now. He looks smart at the AHL level. The rebuild comparisons are stupid because you can always find a new one to fit narratives. Benning said he can turn the team around quickly and that by year 4 or 5, we'd be competing with the leagues best. He wants until year 9 or 10 now. Pretty ridiculous. You can't spin that. People like to talk about the young talent pool which is fine. I get it - it's fun to be "excited" about young players. The problem is that if you looked at those idiots in Buffalo, I guarantee you could go to their forum and find people being like YA WELL WE GOT EICHEL DAHLIN REINHART N MORE CMING like it's just a stupid debate. It's virtually impossible to be a consistent non-playoff team that has owners who spend to the cap and not have a few good young players. You also have to acknowledge that these idiots running the team got these good young players because they were so bad at building a playoff team that we got high picks. At no point did they intentionally rebuild. The only year where you could say they "maybe" took somewhat of a step back was like the calendar year of 2017 where they moved Hansen and Burrows for good value gambles and had a decent free agency with good rationale behind their moves. Every other portion of this team under Benning has focused short term on making the playoffs. It's indisputable. I genuinely do not understand why people flex that we got our young players without tanking for 1st overalls and we picked 5th-ish instead. Like, we've been a bottom 5 team for 6 years... ACCIDENTALLY. I don't know how you can say Benning got a discount when Benning himself said that his agent said "this is the number we think we're going to get in free agency" and they agreed to it and gave him it. A "discount" would have been in the 2.6-2.7 range and even at that price, they would have been better off dealing him for futures. You really should look up the age ranges of declining forwards. Pearson will be 30 by the time year two of that deal starts. I don't think this is going to be a totally useless player but it's a risk that a contending team should take provided he takes a discount - not paying what the agent demands on a team Benning forecasts is at least two years away. It's not even a narrative if every &^@#ing person in the industry thinks it outside of a few delusional Canucks fans who look like the same delusional Oiler fans we used to make fun of circa 2013 when they'd jerk off to Yakupov, Nuge, Hall, RNH, Nurse. -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
I really don't agree with what you're saying about Lind. I think you could say the bolded about a same age Gaudette but being "ok" at that stuff at a lower level is not good enough to make it at an NHL level. If you can get a pick for a player like this, I'd take it and run. Everyone likes to "wait and see" with basically every prospect that hasn't made major strides in their first three post-draft seasons, but I feel like it should be pretty obvious what a player is going to be outside of the rare late development curve guys. -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Lind is like Reid Boucher -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
true those oiler guys mcdavid draisatl rly bad playre s sutter is better -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
it’s been seven years of this regime and another two years prior of poor management at the end of the gillis years - How many more decades should we wait until we can respond to bad decisions, gatekeeper? -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
You can keep being happy brown nosing what is basically 2010-2017 Edmonton Oilers levels of incompetence. Please tell me more about the good young players needing to be surrounded by overpaid veterans and throw in an extra spicy kevin lowe tier 1 fans line. -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Are you implying that players generally peak outside of their prime? -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Are you actually ignorant to the way he produced? Genuine question. This is a guy who stands in front of the net and is reliable defensively and by all accounts - a great teammate and good professional. He had like a four month sample where he scored a stupid high amount of empty net points. The rest of his production comes from tap ins and dirty $&!#. That’s why there’s been so much fluctuation in his scoring in the last five years - he’s a product of the chances the team generates for him. If there aren’t chances for him to get an empty netter or deflection/grease goal, the only way he scores otherwise is the occasional transition wrist shot from 25 feet. He is a product of his teammates and does not drive his own production. Jesus christ man. -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Players don’t perform well on bad team put together by a bunch of low iq big ego guys who want to be right about everything and don’t actually care about winning a cup. They only care about proving themselves right and keeping their jobs. -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
It’s absolutely true and there are studies that look at player production. This is a slow 3rd liner who is going to get slower. -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Tanner Pearson
Tom Sestito replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
We. Don’t. Have. The. Capspace. To. Afford. Edler. Right. Now. You can make assumptions like the probable Holtby buyout and then they’d be able to afford to re-sign Edler but right now, I wouldn’t assume these guys know how to wipe their ass.