Tom Sestito

Are you telling me the people who watch this crap aren’t very smart?

What people think of Mason Raymond is one of the biggest indicators to me of if I should value their hockey opinion or not. On top of the other obvious ones like what they think of Jim Benning and Erik Gudbranson.

Fantastic win. New era. Let’s go.

Cope harder kid

He tried to trade the Brock Boeser pick for Lucic. Boston took a better offer. He tried to trade the Juolevi for PK Subban. Botchford reported that he wanted Bleackley and Hawyrluk at the draft in 2014 with picks 24/35 and deferred to the scouting staff somewhat once they were gone. He turned down an offer that allegedly included the 9th overall for Ryan Miller and Kevin Bieksa. He wanted Glass and not EP. QH ok. He overruled Brackett to get Hoglander so he gets credit there. Podkolzin ok. Horvat was drafted a year before Benning showed up. Rathbone was a brackett pick, and is currently in the minors. He traded a top ten pick for Garland - that isn’t a getting younger move LMFAO

It absolutely was. The Sedins were pretty good first line players up until the 2016-2017. They looked overmatched after then, but they could have theoretically played a lower level secondary scoring role like Spezza after that. Such a shame. Not getting out of the first round after 2011 really sucks. They deserved better. 2012 is somewhat excusable because of the Keith hit but the rest of the team didn’t make enough substantial improvements regardless.

Benning gave out more trade protection, traded more futures, and run the organization with no future planning moreso than any other GM in Canucks history (At least during my lifetime) Iceman has to be trolling

Shifting problems Need to build legitimate asset depth before you can make moves to acquire impact players without severely neutering another area of your team

The dumbasses heading this organization over the past eight years never rebuilt. We ran major pick deficits and are asset bare. We need to fix things but have nothing tangible to use in trades to fix without it being just creating major holes in an area of need to fill another. Asset rich teams don’t have that issue. This is going to take years to fix. The culture is rotten, and so is the roster construction. Hopefully they hire a true savant with a large hockey operations staff. That’s the only way they’ll fix this mess.

Btw, today is the best I have felt being a canucks fan since March 20th, 2012. Everything March 21 and onwards is a pit of despair.

Yeah Benning has eight seasons of elite trading for sure

Doesn’t count. Everyone in the world can see that our “plenty for the right side” is plenty-of-garbage. It’s not a secret.

Your posts read like satire.

If I go out clubbing and make out with 4 3’s and tell my friends I made out with 2 10’s, that doesn’t make me successful.

This decision is six years overdue. It was obvious that Jim was over his head around the time that Gilman left, the Sbisa/Dorsett extensions happened. Then the terrible 2015 offseason and 15-16 season. Onto greener pastures. Can really go up from here. Arizona Coyotes tier clownshow previously.

Yeah those idiots have nothing to complain about. This is all Green’s fault

Wouldn’t hold your breath on us still having that draft pick considering we’ve traded the last two.

They made some interesting system adjustments that have limited some of the transition opportunities we concede and probably contribute to our defensive metrics being OK at 5 on 5. But, the lack of pressure and simplicity in our offense as a result of these changes has neutered the team. They were best off playing that stupid rope-a-dope hockey they were playing in 19-20 where they'd just keep games close 5 on 5 and rely on the superstars to win them games. Or at least, have a system in place that enables them the ability to do so.

It's a good mix. The coach sucks and everyone plays like $&!# under him and no one really gets better. The management has no idea how to construct a roster. The amount of people who were convinced that OEL + Poolman were some huge upgrade on Edler-Schmidt was mindboggling. Still is. Myers is the only RHS who can handle the puck at a legitimate NHL level but we have offense first LHS guys who Myers can't play with. They don't understanding diminishing returns when you have similar skillsets. They don't understand locker room dynamics. They don't understand Then you get into the whole bottom six mess that still lives on and has for seven years. The penalty killing is LOL. I don't think that's entirely personnel regardless of what Hansen - who's generally right about everything - says. Analytics show that basically anyone should be able to penalty kill at a fairly OK rate in the sense that replacements from outside of the roster - on average - perform at close to similar rates. But it is extremely obvious that it is also a roster construction issue in regards to the PKers available. TLDR is everyone is stupid.

The organizational processes with Linden were bad as well. They never tried to rebuild. They just sucked at building good teams so they accidentally tanked. The only semblance of a rebuild that has ever occurred was in 2017 where they traded Hansen and Burrows and I think Linden finally was willing to use the word. Linden finally realized somewhere in 2017-2018 that everything they had done was stupid but that's when the divide happened. You can either double down on the stupidity or admit fault and that there needs to be correction made. Linden chose the latter, ownership/benning/weisbrod chose the former.

we only need to play at a 2011 canucks pace the rest of the season to make the playoffs only.

I was moreso laughing at it, but this is a relatively fair picture that I’m willing to concede

Boy, if your buck stops at people throwing items on the floor, I hope you keep your eyes away from any other protests that ever occur.

Please tell me you see the hypocrisy here considering that is exactly what I was poking fun at you all for doing. 1. People protest 2. You all moan “Omg negative fans this is so wrong stop moaning” 3. I come in and point out there is no way to appease the moaners. 4. Now you’re saying I’m doing what you all had been doing for pages? Hilarious

Is any form of protest the action of a whiny child to you considering you want to falsely equate protests with those who complain about how people protest?