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spook007

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  1. Merry Christmas to you too Jan and all the rest of you brilliant folks on CDC.
  2. Happy with the progress so far under Green. More importantly Benning and Green seems to be on the same wave length, so a 3 year deal sounds good. Stability for Green and unless they want rid of Green now, why upset the apple cart, by giving him a shorter deal... and as other have mentioned before, it's not like he can't be canned if it goes pear shaped. The players seem to like Green, so at least as long as progress is shown, no need to change it.
  3. Amazing how anyone can be so negative towards, what's happening in Vancouver... Is it perfect? Not a chance, but who is... , however it's the best it's been in a long time, and we are going to look good for the next 8 years, probably. Long may it continue.
  4. A 'Dear John' letter.... JT to get the 'A'...
  5. Did you read the post I responded to? In that post it was stated that if the GM made one signing that turned out to be horrible, he should be sacked... Regarding the rest of the signings you refer to, we can argue over that to the cows cone in from the fields, as neither of us is ever gonna agree on that, which 500 threads bear witness to.... Sutter was known to be an iron man until he signed here... Beagle is fine... Roussel meh, Gudbransson was swapped, Ferland brought something we didn’t, and still don’t, have... ( Benning took a chance.. are we never honna sign a player again if they have had a concussion or two?) with regards to us being the only team, i have heard of no such reports? Myers not a good contract? Since when? He was expected to fetch more as per several reports and when he went down during the play offs, the true value of him emerged. He was sorely missed. Andvwith regards to take advantage of EP’s and QH ELC’s, it was discussed a week ago here that only two teams in the last 20 years won, while their stars was on their ELC’s so... And just for a quick add, Benning has not been afraid to take chances. If you take a few swings you may miss on a few but as long as you also hit on a few, you’ll probably do just fine. It is after all because of his drafting we are having an optimistic look on our future.
  6. So you’ll fire a GM for ONE bad signing worth 6 Mill in the start of his tenure? Despite him being the reason, we have been filled with optimism for the future? Could understand if the team still showed no sign of improvements, but that is not really the case is it?
  7. Lind is still young, Just coming up for 22 and probably quite high on the organisation chart. He was the last to be scratched for the play offs roster, so it looks like he was close in eyes of management. I doubt Hawryluk being signed changes that. Changes are coming over the next 2 years, and everyone knows that... Think it's important that all the prospects, including Hawryluk, Bailey, Jasek and Lind have competition to ensure they keep working hard for their opportunity.
  8. Yes Dorsett was a beaut.... would have been magic on this roster... Felt we could have done with another Motte during last play offs. Though Motte and Beagle were the stand outs on the bottom two lines. Let me rephrase this then Good to see Old JB add more hustle to the team.... Benning is doing is doing a great job...
  9. Good then to so see old JB starting to build a team with more hustle. Although do agree it would be nice with a few bigger players... On top of this its a great deal. Cheap 1 year 2 way... if it doesn’t work, so what... brings competition to the drafted players, who won’t get the opportunities spoon fed...me like a lot.
  10. Benning was not blind during the playoff... I expect more like his over the next year or two. I applaud any signing that adds a bit of spice.
  11. I'm not a Gillis hater, and thoroughly enjoyed our time under Gillis, but there is a world of difference between, what Mike Gilles took over, and what Jim Benning took over...Starting with the young Sedins, as well as Kesler, Burrows, Hansen, Raymond, Rypien, Ohlund, Edler, Bieksa, Mitchell, Salo ( I may have few wrong, but think the picture is clear). Long contracts NMC/NTC galore was handed out by Gilles. When he was fired, the team was tied down and Benning handcuffed as a result. And there plenty misses under Gilles as well... Drafting wise there was Horvat and Hutten as well as my Cody, but in general a pretty poor haul (later draft picks of course). In 2 years is the time we are starting to make noises for real, Benning deserves to get the first shot at it with the new core...
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