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  1. Miller making strong case for team MVP. Marky takes it IMO but if Miller keeps up his play and we get to the playoffs it'll be a tough conversation.
  2. He was alright vs the yotes. He's been useless and a shadow of his former self for 90% of the year. Doesn't PK and shouldn't PP. Could spend his cap hit on someone better. Maybe if we make the playoffs and he steps up he could sway my opinion but a couple games doesn't do that for me. I feel that way with a few players on this roster.
  3. Clearly he is a Big Mac truck, ask Colorado's D. We probably shouldn't assume his vehicleness though. Could offend someone.
  4. Yeah he does't play good on it. Need to give other guys looksies.
  5. 1 game doesn't make me forget the uselessness of the rest. Happened with Stecher too but he hasn't been as bad as Roussel. If he strings together more games in a row, sure.
  6. After this game maybes finally Greener got the message of why JB thinks Big Mac Zack Attack is a regular.
  7. He Protec He Attac His name is Zac Known as Big Mac But most importantly... When Greener puts him into the lineup he make impact
  8. Like I said though that's because Gillis inherited a good roster and made great moves(trades/signings). That had nothing to do with his drafting. No players Gillis drafted were ever a part of our playoff success in his time. Benning inherited a stale, digressing core that the ownership still wanted to try to win with for some reason and had zero prospects to boot save Horvat. They're two scenarios on entirely opposite sides of the spectrum. Benning has filled the cupboard up tremendously. You cannot deny that during his regime we've been fortunate enough to possibly have the best young core we've ever had and it has potential to continue to grow moving forward.. Look at the roster. We have 3 Calder finalists the past 3 years with possibly 2 winners if Hughes wins. How is that not a good thing? That Pod kid is lighting up the KHL playoffs right now and looks like another gamer. People are complaining about Madden going and he was our 4th-6th best prospect at the time. Given the fact we've been screwed over by the lotto so many times things panned out well for us. Don't get me wrong. If I don't like something I see from JB I complain but drafting hasn't been one of those things with JB. I am pretty happy with it.
  9. If he said that prior to OJ's injury I would of believe he could in our top 6. Injury happened though.
  10. You all need to ease up on the expectations. Setting the bar pretty high for this guy.
  11. He only had two top 10 picks. Hodgson and Horvat and he only got Horvat right. In fact, Horvat is the only player in all 5 drafts he got with us that he got really well. That's 5 drafts and one real player to show for it. Still drafted McCann who's better than every player Gillis drafted either than Horvat and McCann isn't even one of JB's best picks. OJ's 21 kind of early to tell for him, we'll see in a couple years. Like it is with others drafted in Benning's time. Like I have clearly stated. Virtanen's turning out pretty well eh? Never at all blamed Gillis for anything just stating fact. He did leave our prospect pool bone-dry. It's simply the truth. I have accepted it but it seems like you haven't. So you're giving credit to Bennings scouting department and when it comes to only Horvat you give credit to MG? Okay, that definitely makes your opinion totally unbiased. Gradin one of Gillis's people? You sure? He's been around this organization since IDK 1995. Same with Delorme. Also how'd that explain all these other players drafted out of Benning's regime? It's funny how Judd Brackett, a "Gillis" guy wasn't able to find any good prospects during Gillis's 5 year regime besides Bo. Only after Benning took over we finally started seeing prospects? Funny huh? Ottawa and NJD embarassed us? Totally. I am sure they feel like they have. This was fun and easy.
  12. Gaud's gaudda round out his game a bit more. I am not worried about his production. I don't want to have to shelter him anymore and have him play those PK and match up duties while he provides that secondary scoring. I want to get rid of plugs like Sutter, Roussel and Eriksson and get better suited players for our team so that we can surround our younger players coming up with the likes of a rounded out Gaud and such without the worry of sheltering the young guys because they'll have great line mates.
  13. I am not sure GMMG got us Gaudette might of gotten us the pick but didn't draft him. He also didn't draft Edler. Not saying GMMG was bad but he did leave us bone dry when it comes to prospects. Thanks for Marky and Bo in those 5 years you were here. GMMG drafted from 2008-2013. His notables are Hodgson who eventually didn't pan out, Connauton who is a 7th D, Hutton who's a top 6 D and Horvat. One good player in 5 years of drafting. His last draft was 6 drafts ago so it can't be argued that some guys are too early to tell. Lets compare to Benning. 2014-2019 "So far" McCann, Virtanen, Demko and Tryamkin, Boeser, Gaudette, Pettersson, Hughes. And we still have to wait and see if others pan out. That's a star defenseman in Hughes, a star winger in Boeser, a star centre in Petey, potential starter in Demko, potential defenseman in Tryamkin and 3 top 9 forwards in Gaudette, Virtanen and McCann. All of these guys are still under 25 besides Tryamkin btw Hell there might be more coming out of those draft classes(2014-19). Lind, OJ, Hog, Pod, Woo, Rathbone, Madden, DiPrietro, list goes on. It is still not set. He inherited a pretty good team and made the right trades and signings to push us far. BUT he did nothing for our prospect pool in 5 years of drafting besides Bo. Only other guy he brought in who was young was Tanev via FA and traded Luongo for Markstrom. We're also suffering for a cap-hit from Luongo for the next 3 years because of that 12 year deal he signed from Gillis. You think Gillis came close to that prospect pool? Really?
  14. Yeah trade record has definitely improved and drafting has mostly been great. UFAs signings hmmm... Eriksson makes me sad.... do something. R.Miller was a good stop gap for Marky. Dorsett was great but needed a lot more help, 1 man army. Vanek got us Motte. Vrbata was alright but should of traded him. Myers is eh? but not his worst. Beagle's been worth it, Roussel hasn't. Ferland unfortunate. I am sure there are a few others but they weren't very memorable *cough* Gagme MDZ.. Sutter, Gud and Sbeejus were acquired via trade. Probably his worst trades though he turned Gud into Pearson which I am happy with. Didn't we trade someone for a 5th pick that got us Gaudette?
  15. Not as much as when he started. Also our cupboard was bone-dry when he started. Best prospects were Shinkaruk and Subban. Benning had to spend a "generation" acquiring the next "generation" because they last regime didn't do a good job at it. Also he had to cope with owners who wanted to try and turn it around right away(2014-15) and that didn't want to decide to rebuild till the team was hot garbage and fans were demanding it. Yeah we still need some pieces but we got a lot of our core pieces set. Our top 2 centers set for an entire generation. A top 2 defenseman and a pretty good RWer all while not getting lotto luck and drafting top 3. Outside the 1st round he's found some players too and we still need to see some. And despite the fact that these young players made the jump early we've still got a pretty decent prospect pool We're not that far off. We just need time and we still are gonna keep adding.
  16. Yeah we need to go hard on a good defenseman. Can't bring up any young guys like Rafferty/Juolevi with the likes of Stecher/Benn/Fanta. Edmundson/Dillon Also need to replace Sutter and one of Roussel/Eriksson with guys that can play defense and hit/provide secondary scoring. We have way too many guys who are one dimensional and only play D in our bottom 6.
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